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History Lessons
on Jerrold Tarog’s Heneral Luna
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Notes on Godzilla Resurgence and Love & Peace
Godzilla Resurgence (left); Love & Peace (right) Two sides of the same sentiment, but of different political position. Both has something to do with United States’ Nuclear Terror attack back in 1945. Both uses the Kaiju as a metaphor to the Nuclear bomb. First, Hideaki Anno’s and Shinji Higuchi’s Godzilla Resurgence (2016) as outright rightist,…
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Symphony of Development and the Ideology of Speed
on Walter Ruttman’s Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt and Railways
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Notes on Lino Brocka’s essay 2
“The “upliftment of the motion Picture industry” should not, can never be, a package deal; it is, instead, a protracted struggle. One should work perseveringly with the material at hand, should be aware of but not stunted by our cinematic tradition, and should place one’s trust in the Filipino mass audience.” -Lino Brocka (Philippine Movies:…
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Re-reading Brocka’s famous essay
Manila Review published Lino Brocka’s “Philippine Movies: Some Problems & Prospects” back in their October 1974 issue. The essay was quite famous for its challenge to film-makers (directors, producers, also cinematographers, editors, actors) to “get over his hang-up about making the Great Filipino Film” that the film-maker should think about “developing the Great Filipino Audience”.…
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On Agustin “Hammy” Sotto
Also, a compendium of articles of him found online
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The Tale of Two Oedipi*
on Mario Cornejo’s Apocalypse Child (2015). Partly edited to finally have a proper conclusion.
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Notes on Drone Cinematography
an attempt to expand the history correlating of the technologies of War and Cinema with the new Drone