Episode 34: Maid in Malacanang vs. Katips (Double Review)

The P*I* Podcast

There is a recent box office battle between the movies "Maid in Malacanang" (a dramatization of the Marcos family and household during the last 72 hours before EDSA), and "Katips" (a stage musical about student activists posing as the "new katipuneros" during Martial Law). In relation to the wave of reviews coming from other sources, we have decided to focus on the effectiveness of these movies as propaganda, while fleshing out and providing a critique of their core messages. Overall, we watched both films so you don't have to

0:00 Music

0:12 Intro

0:40 Impressions from the Box office battle

12:40 Maid in Malacanang

1:01:30 Katips

1:42:05 Recommendations

Recommendations

Danton (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B7RApdrIfs

One Nation, One King (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7073522/

Eva Peron: The True Story (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYOdyClmuis

Quezons Game (2018)

https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2007485585

Dekada 70 (2002)

https://www.amazon.com/Dekada-70-Vilma-Santos/dp/B083F65KLR

Liway (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzF8xqctco

Featured book from Ateneo Press:

Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in the Asia-Pacific edited by Nick de Ocampo

https://www.ateneo.edu/news/2022/07/14/new-press-keeping-memories-cinema-archiving-asia-pacific#:~:text=Keeping%20Memories%3A%20Cinema%20and%20Archiving%20in%20the%20Asia%2DPacific%20edited,of%20our%20Asian%20film%20heritage.

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