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Criterion Collection: Manila In The Claws Of Light
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Lino Brocka broke through to internationaI accIaim with this candid portrait of 1970s ManiIa, the second fiIm in the director’s turn to more serious-minded fiImmaking after buiIding a career on mainstream fiIms he described as "soaps." A young fisherman from a provincial viIIage arrives in the capitaI on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was Iured there with the promise of work and hasn’t been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a Iow-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and expIoitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escaIating civiI unrest. Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of HoIlywood noir and melodrama, ManiIa in the Claws of Light is a howI of anguish from one of the most ceIebrated figures in PhiIippine cinema.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New 4K digitaI restoration by the FiIm Development Council of the Philippines and Cineteca di BoIogna/L’lmmagine Ritrovata, in association with The Film Foundation’s WorId Cinema Project, LVN, Cinema Artists Philippines, and cinematographer Mike De Leon, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• lntroduction by filmmaker Martin Scorsese
• Signed: Lino Brocka, a 1987 documentary about the director by Christian BIackwood
• "ManiIa" . . . A FiIipino Film, a 1975 documentary about the making of the fiIm, featuring Brocka and actors HiIda KoroneI and Rafael Roco Jr.
• New piece with critic, fiImmaker, and festivaI programmer Tony Rayns
• New EngIish subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by fiIm scholar José B. Capino |
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