#Norte Hangganan ng Kasaysayan

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Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan [Norte, the End of History] (Lav Diaz - 2013)

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Norte, the End of History (Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan, 2013) - Lav Díaz

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“Norte, the End of History” (2013)  Lav Diaz

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01.PH found some lists of filipino directors so i’m gonna try to see some of their movies.

List 1

Eddie Romero

Brides of Blood

The Twilight People

Faces of Love

The Passionate Strangers

Aguila 

Amable “Tikoy” Aguiluz

30 Views of Mt. Mayon

Biyaheng Langit

Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story

Rizal sa Dapitan

Tragic Theater

Fernando Poe Jr.

Ang Panday

Ang Padrino

Alupihang Dagat

Isang Bala Ka Lang!

Kahit Butas Ng Karayom

Celso Ad. Castillo

Totoy Boogie

Sanib

666

Return of the Dragon

Ang Alamat

Pagputi ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak 

Elwood Perez

Esoterika: Maynila

Lipad, Darna, Lipad!

Ibulong Mo Sa Diyos

Bilangin Mo Ang Bituin Sa Langit

The Real Life of Pacita M.

Marilou Diaz-Abaya

Ikalabing-Isang Utos (Mahalin Mo, Asawa Mo)

Milagros

Karnal

Muro Ami

Bagong Buwan 

Maryo J. de los Reyes

The Unmarried Wife

Bamboo Flowers

Magnifico

Naglalayag

A Love Story 

Eddie Garcia

Sinasamba Kita

Palimos Ng Pag-ibig

Pinagbuklod ng Pag-ibig

Magdusa Ka

Saan Nagtatago ang Pag-ibig

Lino Brocka

Tubog sa Ginto

Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang

Maynila…Sa Kuko ng Liwanag

Jaguar

Gumapang Ka Sa Lusak 

Gerardo de Leon 

Ang Bagong Umaga

Hanggang sa Dulo ng Daigdig

Huwag Mo Akong Limutin

Noli Me Tangere

El Filibusterismo 

List 2

Marissa Aroy

Delano Manongs: The Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers

Lav Diaz

Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan Norte, the End of History

Ramona Diaz

Don’t Stop Believin’ (Everyman’s Journey)

Jess dela Merced

Hypebeasts

Stephen Dypiangco & Patrick Epino

Awesome Asian Bad Guys

Hannah Espia

Transit

Raya Martin

How To Disappear Completely

H.P. Mendoza

I Am A Ghost

Diane Paragas

Brooklyn Boheme

Jose Antonio Vargas

Documented

List 3: https://primer.com.ph/blog/2017/03/26/5-filipino-millenial-filmmakers-you-should-know/

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Norte  2013

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Day 140 (2): Norte, The End of History, dir. Lav Diaz (2013)

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Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan / Norte, the End of History Lav Diaz. 2013

Street Fr Castro Av, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte,  Phillippines See in map

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77/100

Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (2013) Directed by Lav Diaz Written by Rody Vera and Lav Diaz Starring Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania

Watched on 12/18 ★★★★☆

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Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan [Norte, the End of History] (Lav Diaz - 2013)

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2k17

Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven)

Sixteen Candles (1984, John Hughes)

TRON (1982, Steven Lisberger)

What Dreams May Come (1998, Vincent Ward)

Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle)

Easy A (2010, Will Gluck)

Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)

Simon Werner a disparu... (2010, Fabrice Gobert)

Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele)

Hidden Figures (2016, Theodore Melfi)

Doctor Strange (2016, Scott Derrickson)

ABCs of Death 2 (I is for Invincible) (2014, Erik Matti)

Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017, Christopher Storer)

Honor Thy Father (2015, Erik Matti)

Mababangong bangungot (1978, Kidlat Tahimik)

I America (2016, Ivan Andrew Payawal)

Dekada '70 (2002, Chito S. Roño)

Must Be... Love (2013, Dado C. Lumibao)

#WalangForever (2015, Dan Villegas)

Camp Sawi (2016, Irene Emma Villamor)

Always Be My Maybe (2016, Dan Villegas)

Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay (2011, Antoinette Jadaone)

You're My Boss (2015, Antoinette Jadaone) 

Genghis Khan (1950, Lou Salvador, Manuel Conde)

The Trial (2014, Chito S. Roño)

Sa Iyong Sinapupunan (2012, Brillante Ma Mendoza)

Shake, Rattle and Roll 8 (2006, Rahyan Q. Carlos, Topel Lee, Michael Tuviera)

Seklusyon (2016, Erik Matti)

My Candidate (2016, Quark Henares)

Ang babae sa septic tank (2011, Marlon N. Rivera)

#Y (2014, Gino M. Santos)

Darkroom (2017, Pedring Lopez)

Ang Probinsyano (1996, Ronwaldo Reyes)

Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (2013, Lav Diaz)

Lakas ng Lahi by (2014, Arnold Arre)

The S from Hell (2010, Rodney Ascher)

Panaginip (2013, Che Tagyamon)

Mumu (2015, Che Tagyamon)

Sariwa (1996, Rico Mambo)

Burger Boys (1999, Lav Diaz)

Batang West Side (2001, Lav Diaz)

Warat (1999, Joel Lamangan)

Sonata (2013, Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes)

Ang Paghihintay sa Bulong (2012, Sigrid Andrea Bernardo)

5:00 ning Gatpanapun (2012, Petersen Vargas)

48 Oras (1950, Gerardo de Leon)

Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969, Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero)

Die Beautiful (2016, Jun Lana)

Track Projections (2007, Raya Martin)

Vesuvius (2012, Erik Matti)

Sana maulit muli (1995, Olivia M. Lamasan)

Puting Paalam (1997, Sari Raissa Lluch Dalena)

Debut (2011, Pamela L. Reyes)

Bottle Rocket (1994, Wes Anderson)

Doodlebug (1997, Chris Nolan)

Solar Syokoy (2012, Khavn)

Every Other Time (2011, Gino M. Santos)

Patay na si Hesus (2016, Victor Villanueva)

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“Norte, the End of History” (2013)  Lav Diaz

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Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan

Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan

A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.

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Top películas.

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Películas 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick – 1968, Reino Unido, Estados Unidos) 2. Зеркало - El Espejo (Andrei Tarkovski – 1975, Unión Soviética) 3. Persona (Ingmar Bergman – 1966, Suecia, Brasil) 4. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard - 1967, Francia, Italia) 5. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel - 1961, España, México) 6. La jetée (Chris Marker - 1962, Francia) 7. Броненосец Потёмкин - Acorazado Potemkin - (Sergei Eisenstein - 1925, Unión Soviética) 8. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni - 1961, Italia, Francia) 9. L'année dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais - 1961, Francia, Italia) 10. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson - 1966, Francia, Suecia) 11. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer – 1955, Dinamarca, Suecia) 12. Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini – 1968, Italia) 13. 8½ (Federico Fellini - 1963, Italia, Francia) 14. Onibaba - 鬼婆 (Kaneto Shindô – 1964, Japón) 15. Иди и смотри - Ven Y Mira (Elem Klimov - 1985, Unión Soviética) 16. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio - 1982, Estados Unidos) 17. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski -1981, Francia, Alemania Occidental) 18. Z (Costa-Gavras - 1969, Francia, Argelia) 19. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Sergio Leone - 1966, Italia, Alemania Occidental) 20. Annie Hall (Woody Allen – 1977, Estados Unidos) 21. Du rififi chez les hommes (Jules Dassin - 1955, Francia) 22. The Apartment (Billy Wilder - 1960, Estados Unidos) 23. The Third Man (Carol Reed - 1949, Reino Unido) 24. 薔薇の葬列 | Bara no sôretsu - Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto - 1969, Japón) 25. Sedmikrásky (Vera Chytilová - 1966, Checoslovaquia)

1) Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick –1999, Estados Unidos, Reino Unido) 2) Kış Uykusu - Sueño de Invierno (Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 2011, Turquía, Francia) 3) Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch – 2001, Estados Unidos) 4) Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan (Lav Diaz – 2013, Filipinas) 5) Fa yeung nin wa | 花樣年華 - In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai – 2000, Hong Kong) 6) Malgré La Nuit (Philippe Grandieux - 2016, Francia, Canadá) 7) Holy Motors (Leos Carax – 2012, Francia, Alemania) 8] Nema-ye Nazdik - Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami - 1990, Irán) 9) Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese – 1990, Estados Unidos) 10) Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier – 2000, Dinamarca, Argentina) 11) Irréversible (Gaspar Noé – 2002, Francia) 12) Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan – 2012, Canadá, Francia) 13) A torinói ló (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky – 2011, Hungría, Francia) 14) Tequila (Rubén Gámez - 1992, México) 15) There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson – 2007, Estados Unidos) 16) Baraka (Ron Fricke - 1992, Estados Unidos) 17) Le livre d'image (Jean-Luc Godard - 2018, Suiza, Francia) 18) Du levande (Roy Andersson - 2007, Suecia, Alemania) 19) Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky - 2010, Estados Unidos) 20) La grande bellezza (Paolo Sorrentino - 2013, Italia, Francia) 21) ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ - Loong Boonmee raleuk chat - Uncle Boonmee recuerda sus vidas pasadas (Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 2010, Tailandia, España) 22) Tren de sombras: El espectro de Le Thuit (José Luis Guerín - 1997, España) 23) Cavalo dinheiro (Pedro Costa - 2014, Portugal) 24) The Prestige (Christopher Nolan – 2006, Reino Unido, Estados Unidos) 25) It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt – 2012, Estados Unidos)

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Filipino films: a starter

When you’re a cinephile, you get to talk to a lot of people from all over the world who share the same interest. You share your all-time favourite films, and speak about your local cinema. 

Therefore, to make sharing easier, I came up with this list of Filipino films I really really really love.

Many Filipinos prefer watching Hollywood movies over local ones because they think all local movies are cliches and are second or third-rate remakes of already existing ones.

But there are far too many good local films available, we just have to give extra effort in finding and supporting them.

Here are just a few of those good films released in recent years:

In no particular order:

1.    Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (Norte, End of History) [Lav Diaz, 2013]

Drama/Crime/Art house

This is my all-time favourite local film and it’s the most unforgettable to me for a reason I can only share in person because of its utterly weird context. 

Anyway, anyone who has watched a Lav Diaz film would know that his style is visually hypnotizing but is intellectually exhausting. Norte is no excuse. It’s crazy how all the rots of society are presented in this film, yet it tells you that zero-society is even more messed up.

Apart from its complex philosophical and political views, it also seems like every scene, line, off-frame sound, literally every component has a deeper meaning, a metaphor for something. You’ll need four hours to watch this film, and probably a lifetime to dissect it.

Other great films by Lav: Ang Babaeng Humayo, Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis, Melancholia

2.    Thy Womb [Brillante Mendoza, 2012]

Drama/Art house

Brillante Mendoza has already been making noise in the International cinema scene particularly after winning best director at Festival de Cannes in 2009 for his movie “Kinatay”. I am personally not a big fan of him but this particular movie by him still haunts me every single time I think of it. 

Thy Womb is a story of an infertile midwife who loved her husband so much to the point of personally finding a surrogate mother to give her husband a child. This film presents the tradition and culture of Badjao (an indigenous people in the Southern Philippines) too raw and natural. 

People might think that the first half of this film is slow and stuffy, but what Mendoza is actually doing is creating an atmosphere where the audience is slowly transforming into the lead character. By the second half of the film, I am completely captivated and torn into pieces that even a week after watching it, I still find myself crying. And four years later, this film has that same effect on me.

3.     Sana Dati [Jerrold Tarog, 2013]

Romance/Drama 

Jerrold Tarog has made history with his independent film “Heneral Luna” which could easily be the most successful indie film in the country in terms of reach and gross.

A less popular one is “Sana Dati” which is my favourite local romance movie and probably the film I’ve watched the most ever in my life. If you love romance movies and is tired of clichés, then this is the perfect movie for you. 

In this film, the lead character is about to marry a man she doesn’t love, and at her wedding, she suddenly met someone who reminds her of her true love. The premise seems very simple, but the narration of this film is equal parts breathtaking and heartfelt.

4.     Women of the Weeping River [Sheron Dayoc, 2016]

Drama/Art house

This film literally left me speechless, I needed time to recuperate minutes after the credits rolled (this happened to me too after watching Dayoc’s Cresent Rising). In this film set in a remote area in the Southern Philippines, Dayoc insightfully shows the unending violence between two families fighting for their lands where women play vital roles in finding peace. It questions why death is society’s answer to end a war and why vengeance doesn’t exactly justify the deed. It also examines people’s internal battles and our ways of grief.

It is a film about a generational blood feud, and also a metaphor for the unending armed conflicts in Mindanao where the vulnerable is the most at risk, and the strong isn’t really unbreakable. The all non-actor cast delivered raw and believable performances. It has one of the most beautiful endings where it subtly concludes that in war, no one really ever wins. All these witnessed by the weeping river. Perhaps, our land is crying.

5.     Saving Sally [Avid Liongoren, 2016]

Sci-fi/Romance/Art house

The poster of Saving Sally says that it’s a typical love story, and it really meant it. But what’s beautiful about this film is its creative visual style and artistic combination of reality and fantasy to tell a typical story in an extraordinary way. 

In my opinion, this is the freshest and has the most distinct vision I’ve seen in Philippine cinema. It’s after-credit animation is already worth your money. By the end of this film, I found myself wishing to the gods in heaven that Avid Liongoren would not stop creating his craft.

6.     Ang Manananggal sa Unit 23B [Prime Cruz, 2016]

Romance/Suspense

I once tweeted that if I can only use beautiful once a year to describe a film, I’ll use it on this one. Prime Cruz’s Ang Mananggal sa Unit 23B is visually very beautiful, you’d initially think of Wong Kar-wai. But apart from its breathtaking cinematography and production design, this film is made of highly-entertaining performances and genius metaphors. 

In hindsight, this is a love story between a Manananggal (our version of vampire) and a normal human being, but it is more than just that. It is a representation of forbidden love in which the world says no because your body structure says you shouldn’t. It’s best line is “May sakit ako (I’m sick)” -- spoken when the secret about the lead’s identity was eventually found out. This is exactly how society claims that being gay is a sickness, and therefore coming out is a major struggle. The entire movie is dedicated to that -- how one person is forbidden to love another just because of how he or she was made. Not many people may have related it to that because on the surface, the film was all about comic fun and romantic entertainment.

7.     Violator [Eduardo Dayao, 2014]

Horror/Thriller/Art house

Violator is the debut film of critic Dodo Dayao that is full of impressive dreamy style. It is a quasi-apocalyptic thriller told in almost independent subplots. 

What I like best about this movie is that it could be the only thriller film that brought me to tears for reasons out of its narrative. As the credits roll, I found myself shaking while fighting my own demons, and it’s really damn scary.

8.     Ari: My Life with a King [Carlo Catu, 2015]

Drama

This one has a special place in my heart because it is a film that centers on traditional poetry set in Pampanga which is a little north of Metro Manila. 

It is a movie that aims to preserve local culture, art, and dialect. However, it is also a film about the search of identity both individually and collectively as a province, and establishing that identity as a whole that could withstand time and be passed on to generations.

9.     On the Job [Erik Matti, 2013]

Action/Crime thriller

Erik Matti is one of my favourite local directors who continues to impress as a filmmaker. On the Job is a sophisticated action/crime thriller based on a true story about prisoners who are temporarily released by jail guards and are hired as contract killers by politicians or anyone equally powerful.

In this film, Matti shows the rot in Philippine society and political structure, and the bullshit that power can do. It has a powerhouse cast who delivered amazing performances to conclude a gritty action-packed movie.

Other films by Erik Matti that are worth mentioning are ‘Honor Thy Father’, ‘Seklusyon’, and my personal favourite ‘Kubot: The Aswang Chronicles 2′.

MORE RECENT FILMS TO CHECK OUT (not mentioned above):

Anino sa Likod ng Buwan (Jun Lana, 2015)

Imbisibol (Lawrence Fajardo, 2014)

Magkakabaung (Jason Paul Laxamana, 2014)

Sunday Beauty Queen (Baby Ruth Villarama, 2016)

Apocalypse Child (Mario Cornejo, 2015)

And my favourite classics:

Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Lino Brocka, 1975)

Kisapmata (Mike de Leon, 1981)

Oro Plata Mata (Peque Gallaga, 1982)

Burlesk Queen (Celso Ad Castillo, 1977)

Manila by Night (Ishmael Bernal, 1980)

Best of 90s and early 2000s:

Tanging Yaman (Laurice Guillen, 2000)

Dekada ‘70 (Chito S Rono, 2002)

Magnifico (Maryo J De los Reyes, 2003)

Anak (Roy Quintos, 2000)

Muro Ami (Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 1999)

Disclaimer: This is not my top 9 favourite Filipino films. I just chose these movies that could represent different genres in the context of sharing it to people who have zero to slim knowledge of Filipino cinema/culture.

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JESSICA ZAFRA

Jessica Zafra (1965) is a fiction writer, columnist, editor, publisher, and former television and radio show host.

She is known for her sharp and witty writing style. Her most popular books are the Twisted series, a collection of her essays as a columnist for the newspaper Today (now Manila Started Today), as well as from her time as editor and publisher of the magazine Flip. She currently writes a weekly column for interaksyon.com, the online news portal of TV5. She resides in Metro Manila,Philippines, where she is working on her first novel. She also managed the Eraserheads during the 1990s.

Her work often are about current events (both Philippine and international), tennis, movies, music, cats, books, technology, and her personal life. Her work has been the subject of academic study. The main ingredient to her work is often fun cynicism and irony.

Jessica Zafra is a writer based in Manila. She has written two collections of short stories, The Stories So Far and Manananggal Terrorizes Manila, as well as a dozen collections of essays on film, literature, travel, rock music, popular culture and politics. Many of these pieces appeared previously in her highly influential column Twisted, which appeared in the newspaper Today (1994-2004).

Jessica’s essays have been published in the New Yorker, Newsweek, the HK Standard, and The National (Abu Dhabi). She was editor-in-chief of Flip: The Official Guide to World Domination, and the annual literary journal Manila Envelope. At present she is a columnist at InterAksyon, and beginning December 2014 she is starting another column at BusinessWorld.

Outside of publishing, Jessica has hosted talk shows on the FM stations NU-107 and K-Lite and the TV show Points of View, and managed a band. She is an executive producer on Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan (Norte, The End of History, Lav Diaz, 2014) and screenwriter of Esoterika: Manila (Elwood Perez, 2014).

One of her best works is the story “The 500 People You Met In Hell”

here’s the greatest lines/dialougues in the story:

•“There’s nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that    at some point you’re going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect          glory. What’s wrong with liking yourself the way you are?”

• “If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.”

― Jessica Zafra, The 500 People You Meet in Hell

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Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan / Norte, the End of History Lav Diaz. 2013

Cafe Gen Luna St. Cor. Balintawak St., Brgy. 9, Laoag City, 2900 Ilocos Norte, Phillippines See in map

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