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926 - Manila in The Claws of Light (1975)
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It’s been a while since Randy picked something from a nation’s film output with which we have little-to-no familiarity. And a little 1970s Filipino cinema is just what we needed to break us out of the endless Criterion pattern of American/French/English/Japanese. With this - celebrated director Lino Brocka’s adaptation of a novel following a young man named Julio (played by Rafael Roco Jr.) who searches for his missing girlfriend through the poverty and exploitative working conditions of the big city - we’re given a compelling human drama as our introduction.
If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994).
276 episodes
Manage episode 289777673 series 2779324
It’s been a while since Randy picked something from a nation’s film output with which we have little-to-no familiarity. And a little 1970s Filipino cinema is just what we needed to break us out of the endless Criterion pattern of American/French/English/Japanese. With this - celebrated director Lino Brocka’s adaptation of a novel following a young man named Julio (played by Rafael Roco Jr.) who searches for his missing girlfriend through the poverty and exploitative working conditions of the big city - we’re given a compelling human drama as our introduction.
If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994).
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