Mikhail Red’s latest film, Arisaka, is debuting later this month at the Tokyo International Film Festival. For this episode of Third World Cinema Club, John and Princess talk to the director and one of the main stars of the film to find out more. Notes: This is the audio version
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Film Review: BLOCK Z
At 28, Mikhail Red is at the height of his career. Imagine, he showed off his directing chops to the whole nation when he became a part of the 9th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival at age 21, releasing his debut film under the “New Breed” category called Rekorder — a voyeuristic
See you at the Viddsee Juree Awards on Sept. 27 to 29 held at the Pineapple Lab, Makati
Online entertainment platform Viddsee holds its third Juree Awards in the Philippines to celebrate and support filmmakers and film communities in Asia from September 27 to 29. Viddsee Juree Awards (‘Juree’) is an annual industry pick award celebrating best short films from Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. Several screenings and talks
Eeerie: Paved with good intentions
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I am reminded of these lines in thinking of a throughline for the Mikhail Red-directed horror film Eerie. Storywise, the film delivers commentary on how our institutions and internalized preconceptions can be the barriers preventing us from helping those with mental
Neomanila: Earned Redeption Failure
Warning: Full spoilers below. Neomanila has the uncanny ability to disorient. The film initially posits that in the underbellies of Manila, its inhabitants learn how to hold on to whatever light they can manage to get their hands on. It makes its audience believe that optimism is its endgame, that it
Birdshot: An Allegory of Paradise Lost
Warning: Full spoilers below. For the past three days I’ve been thinking about what part of Birdshot leaves me so unsettled, restless with a feeling of dread hovering above. Just like a gumshoe with an inkling he’s obsessesing over, I’ve been thinking, re-watching the film, trying to get a hold of
‘Die, Beautiful’, ‘Birdshot’, and other Filipino films screen at the 2016 Tokyo International Film Festival
The 2016 Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF-J.P.) has released its lineup of exhibition and in-competition films, including a handful of Filipino titles from Jun Lana and Mikhail Red. [dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he lineup of competing and exhibit films for the 29th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival has just been announced.
Here’s the teaser for Mikhail Red’s ‘Birdshot’
T.B.A. (Tuko Film Productions, Buchi Boy Entertainment, Artikulo Uno Productions) has sent us the recently released teaser-trailer for Birdshot, a Philippine-Qatar film co-production directed by Mikhail Red (“American Serial Killer in Manila”). Co-written by Mikhael and Rae Red, the mystery-thriller “revolves around a farm girl who mistakenly shoots and kills
Tandem
The best way to describe Tandem is that it is like the love child of Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive and Erik Matti’s On The Job. In a way, it takes the the 80’s sensibilities of the former and blends it with a plot involving the corruption and the political machinations of those in
