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Esquire Philippines’ chief film critic sits down with the master of slow cinema.
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Esquire Philippines’ chief film critic sits down with the master of slow cinema, whose new historical epic ‘Magellan’ debuted to glowing reviews at Cannes, to talk about 11-hour films, historical revisionism, and quitting filmmaking to write the great Filipino novel. “I want to be part of the struggle to destroy the wall of ignorance,” Lav Diaz says.
Sixty-six-year old filmmaker Lavrente Indico Diaz has made some of the most critically acclaimed films in Philippine cinema. From the sprawling, 10-and-a-half hour generational epic Evolution of a Filipino Family to the five-hour crime drama Batang ...
He said in his acceptance speech for the Boccalino d’Oro prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
Over the weekend, it was announced that the Philippines' very own John Lloyd Cruz had just won the Boccalino d'Oro prize for Best Actor at the 76th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.Cruz reprised his role as Lieutenant Hermes Papauran in ...
"Pilipinas ang aming pangulo."
Some of the biggest names in Philippine cinema spoke candidly in a video statement urging citizens to vote not just for themselves, but for their fellow countrymen.With just a few days to go before the May 9 polls, the Directors' Guild ...
"I still have faith in cinema."
I still have faith in cinema.Poetry is best achieved in solitude. Solitude is not about being alone, but a state of deep confinement of beauty within the soul. This is aesthetics.If I'm not making sense at all, then I ...
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