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World Cinema Project
Directed by: Lino Brocka
Featuring: Hilda Koronel, Rafael Roco Jr., Lou Salvador Jr., Tommy Abuel, Jojo Abella, Lilly Gamboa-Mendoza, Joonee Gamboa, Pio de Castro III, Joseph Jardinazo, Spanky Manikan, Danilo Posadas, Pancho Pelagio
Lino Brocka broke through to international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, the second film in the director’s turn to more serious-minded filmmaking after building a career on mainstream films he described as “soaps.” A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn’t been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest. Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.
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Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
Tagalog Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Introduction, Documentary, Video Essay, Insert
- Introduction by filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Signed: Lino Brocka, a 1987 documentary about the director by Christian Blackwood
- “Manila” . . . A Filipino Film, a 1975 documentary about the making of the film, featuring Lino Brocka and actors Hilda Koronel and Rafael Roco Jr.
- New piece with critic, filmmaker, and festival programmer Tony Rayns
- An essay by film scholar José B. Capino
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