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Vengeance Is Mine 1984
A lost film of uncanny comic touch and cerebral drama. The restored 35mm print I watched is so far my 2023 film viewing highlight. An unmissable, unclassifiable film. Trish van Devere was singular. A
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Leonor Will Never Die 2022
The Blacklist as a film. A capsule of playfulness in retro-stylized meta-memories. There is a strong Ishmael Bernal-esque reverence to its behind-the-scenes and Leonor as a woman and as a creative has spun colorful vignettes of what she is to her family. What no one clocked yet is how Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago is a recreation of Lino Brocka's Jaguar. And what a fantastic feat overall. It takes genius to insert artistic abstraction without failing a studio gambit. A-
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Balangiga: Howling Wilderness 2017
George Orwell stated it well, that the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. This is destructive cinema. This is reconstruction. This is colonialism. This is Philippine cinema under this president. This is not a film by Khavn. A