Tag: lavdiaz
Venice 2020 Review: GENUS PAN, Shakespearean Tragedy on a Darwinian Stage
Filipino auteur Lav Diaz netted the Best Director award at the 2020 Venice Film Festival for his latest oeuvre.
Watch the trailer for Lav Diaz's four-hour oeuvre 'The Woman Who Left'
A shift in the cinema of Filipino auteur Lav Diaz is manifest. This is, depending on who's talking, seems to have brought on by his 2013 Crime and Punishment-inspired epic Norte: The End Of History, which strikes a different chord from...
Venice 2016 Awards: THE WOMAN WHO LEFT, LA LA LAND and More
The 73rd Venice International Film Festival came to a close this evening with their annual awards ceremony. It was a big night for the Philippines and the prolific Lav Diaz as his latest picture, The Woman Who Left, took home...
Review: Lav Diaz's NORTE: THE END OF HISTORY is a Masterpiece That Tackles Human Strife
History is often written to objectify the past into a series of related events that lead to the present. As a result, it tends to glorify milestones to the point of neglecting the humanity that is the very soul...
Watch The Gritty Trailer For Adolfo Alix Jr's LEGEND OF CHINA DOLL
The annual CinemaOne Originals festival is now underway in the Philippines and included in the lineup is the latest from noted auteur and provocateur Adolfo Alix Jr, Legend Of China Doll. Scripted by Lav Diaz, the official synopsis deliberately tells...
