#lino brocka

[sacredwhores]

Lino Brocka - Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)

#film #lino brocka #manila in the claws of light #maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag #1975

[davidhudson]

Lino Brocka, April 3, 1939 – May 22, 1991.

#lino brocka #cinema #film #movies

[wetgeliscasualinterval]

Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) by Lino Brocka

#Manila in the Claws of Light #Lino Brocka #film #cinema #movie #movie stills #film frames #cinematography #movies #films

[linobrocka]

Tubog Sa Ginto (1970)

direksyon ni Lino Brocka

#tubog sa ginto #lino brocka #dipped in gold #lgbtcinema #pelikulang pilipino #philippine cinema #eddie garcia

[celluloidrainbow]

MACHO DANCER (1988) dir. Lino Brocka Abandoned by his American lover, young and handsome Pol journeys from the mountains to Manila in an effort to support his family. He enters the glittering world of male strippers, prostitution, drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption and murder. His closest friend Noel is a successful "macho dancer" and call boy, who takes Pol on as a roommate and acts as his mentor. Noel leads Pol to employment at Mama Charlie's, a male strip club in the district's tourist row frequented by American, European, and Japanese foreigners, and Pol is quickly accepted into the community of sex workers and has an immediate rapport with Bambi, a young call girl that often parties on the street with Noel and his friends after work hours. (link in title)

#lgbt cinema #gay cinema #macho dancer #macho dancer 1988 #pinoy cinema #lgbt #gay #bisexual #philippines #lgbt movie #gay movies #pinoy movies #lgbt film #gay film #pinoy films #lgbt media #gay media #queer cinema #lino brocka #alan paule #daniel fernando #jaclyn jose #1988 #80s #1980s #80s films #1980s movies #1980s cinema #1980s film

[fnipoli]

#Manila In The Claws Of Light #Lino Brocka

[gdacb]

Cain at Abel (Lino Brocka, 1982)

#cain at abel #lino brocka #filipino cinema #1980s

[junglejim4322]

Macho Dancer (1989)

#Macho Dancer #lino brocka #filipino cinema #lgbt cinema #film #c

[unardent]

Hell Hath No Fury: A sticker sheet depicting women in film that are wronged but rightfully seek revenge. 

1. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yi-mou

2. Lady Snowblood (1973) dir. Fujita Toshiya

3. The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook 

4. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) dir. Park Chan-wook

5. Insiang (1976) dir. Lino Brocka

#film #cinema #park chan-wook #sympathy flowers #raise the red lantern #lady snowblood #insiang #lino brocka #the handmaid homestuck #other #graphics

[mycinematheque]

#lino brocka #1982 #1980s #philippines #action #crime #revenge #family #manille

[filmpalette]

Maynila, sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (1975) dir. Lino Brocka

#maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag #manila in the claws of light #lino brocka #1975 #hilda koronel #bembol roco #tommy abuel #1970s

[sacredwhores]

Lino Brocka - Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)

#film #lino brocka #manila in the claws of light #maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag #1975

[isobelleposts]

Exploring the Works of Lino Brocka: 'Insiang' Review

by Isobelle Cruz [October 5, 2022]

ABOVE: Hilda Koronel as Insiang[Photo: The Film Foundation]

Today I got another look into Lino Brocka’s world, or what could also be referred to as the real Philippine society that is often glazed over in cinema. After my first encounter with Manila in the Claws of Light, I immediately went ahead and searched for other Brocka films that may serve the same rawness and awareness to lower-class Philippine society.

‘Insiang’ depicts the everyday life of Filipinos in the lower masses of the country around the years of 1976, when this film was first released and was later featured in numerous screening festivals and bagged awards from the Metro Manila Film Festival, one of them being for Best Cinematography—which is all well-deserved. 

Although it is great to showcase a brighter side of the country on screen and is much appreciated, transparency and representation of the world beneath the rich Filipinos of Manila without glossing over its truths can be somewhat refreshing, as wrong as that may sound. This film was temporarily banned during the Marcos regime, because the then-dictator’s wife, Imelda Marcos, frowned upon its showcase of an image of Manila that was opposite to the one they were trying to sell to the world and keep to themselves, which is exactly why this film among others rebelliously produced during that era, is so important and deserve to be revisited.

[Photo: The NY Times]

The film starts off already brutally with shots set in a slaughterhouse where pigs are butchered and killed for products in the market, setting up what the audience would further witness in the piece: undiminished and gruesome representation and shots of the cruel and difficult parts of Philippine society.

INSIANG: Mahal kita, Bebot, kaya lang hindi ko gusto ginagawa mo sa akin sa loob ng sine.

BEBOT: Eh, lalaki ako, Isiang. Mapipigil ko ba ang sarili ko?

ABOVE: A conversation between Insiang and her boyfriend

The objectification of women is one of the main subjects that this film handles, aside from poverty and the sadly normalized manipulation of parents over their children, and of men over women. In today’s time, even with the overly encouraged activism to show truth and give justice to the country’s real struggles and debunking the richness only brought by corruption, producing a film like Brocka’s still brings a ton of risk for criticism, and even more so with another Marcos given power.

ABOVE: Mona Lisa and Hilda Koronel as mother and daughter [Photo: Letterboxd]

Renowned Filipina actress, Mona Lisa, did an unnerving performance as Tonya, the manipulative and controlling mother of Insiang, which helped set up the film’s tension. With these powerful characters surrounding Insiang and giving her barely any choice to live her own life and escape the madness of her world, Brocka makes me think of all the other people—mostly women—that live with the chokehold that our protagonist goes through.

Ngayong nakaganti ka na, siguro maligayang maligaya ka na.

ABOVE: Tonya to her daughter Insiang, after killing Dado

Unlike Manila in the Claws of Light, released only a year before this film, Insiang has more of a still and let-down ending. But nonetheless, Lino Brocka’s seventh production remains an important piece of Philippine cinema that deserves all the recognition and revisiting by the latest generations.

#lino brocka #philippine cinema #philippine entertainment #movie review #classic film review #metro manila film festival #hilda koronel #brocka #brocka film #ph film #ph cinema #manila in the claws of light #maynila sa kuko ng liwanag #insiang #insiang 1976 #rez cortez #dado #Mario O'Hara #Lamberto Antonio

[byneddiedingo]

Bembol Roco in Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975) Cast: Bembol Roco, Hilda Koronel, Lou Salvador Jr., Joonee Gamboa, Pio De Castro III, Danilo Posadas, Joe Jardi, Spanky Manikan, Edipolo Erosido, Pancho Pelagio, Lily Gamboa Mendoza, Tommy Yap, Juling Bagabaldo. Screenplay: Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr., based on a novel by Edgardo Reyes. Cinematography: Mike De Leon, Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr. Film editing: Ike Jarlego Jr., Edgardo Jarlego. Music: Max Jocson. The title, Manila in the Claws of Light ("Light" is sometimes translated as "Neon"), is enigmatic. But there's nothing enigmatic about this straightforwardly harrowing look at the working class in the Marcos-era Philippines. The protagonist, Julio (Bembol Roco), has left his village, where he was a fisherman, to search for his girlfriend, Ligaya (Hilda Koronel), who was lured away to Manila with other girls by a woman who called herself "Mrs. Cruz" and promised good factory jobs and schooling. When we first meet Julio, he's scrounging for work at construction sites, having been robbed of the money he brought with him to the city. The other workmen help Julio survive after he collapses from hunger on the first day, and their friendship and solidarity in the face of the bosses who routinely cheat them of their full pay help get him on his feet. In his spare time, he continues his search for Ligaya, having learned that she's been lured into prostitution and is now the mistress of Ah Tek, who runs an import-export business. Julio stakes out Ah Tek's business in Manila's Chinatown, hoping for a glimpse of Ligaya. Meanwhile, he endures unemployment with the help of his friends, and survives a bad period by working in a male brothel. His eventual reunion with Ligaya is brief and tragic. The film provides a fascinating look at the underworld of a city that could stand for almost any other metropolis, and director Lino Brocka keeps it moving with a well-paced alternation between desperation and recovery until the shattering end. The cast is uniformly fine, and the realistic view of the city keeps the story from tilting into melodrama.

#Manila in the Claws of Light #Lino Brocka

[jokal1407]

Cain & Abel (1982)

#cain & abel #lino brocka #now watching #cinéma #Philippine cinema #cinema

[brother-emperors]

lmao this is a re draw of a sketch I posted back in december

regarding the antony-cassius dynamic here

Cassius and Brutus: The Memory of the Liberators, Elizabeth Rawson

anyway, @ Cassius: Antony's not obsessed with you because of Caesar and tyranny, he's trying to (redacted) you

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#(blows a kiss) this is for my fellow filipinos #and also for the people who like antagonistic flirting #i dont translate but the general gist of what cassius is saying is: is it a requirement for a tyrant's mouthpiece to be obsessed with me??? #(its not. this is just antony's preference lmao) #mark antony #gaius cassius longinus #are they (you know) conspirators? #marcus junius brutus #the cassius dialogue in the 3rd panel was borrowed from a twitter exchange where a ph rep on twitter got cunty at a marcos crony #(to be absolutely clear: everyone should be cunty to marcos cronies. fuck em. fuck the marcoses! lino brocka was right etc) #komiks tag #roman republic tag