What's On
Victor Noriega's Kuyatet + Lino Brocka's Manila in the Claws of Light
To celebrate our spotlight on Filipino director Lino Brocka, we are pairing a screening of Manila in the Claws of Light with an hour of jazz interpretations of Filipino music led by Victor Noriega, with his band Kuyatet ("Kuya" means "Brother" in Tagalog).
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
If you don't have time to work your way through all 60-odd features Lino Brocka made between 1970 and 1991, let his compatriot and acolyte, video artist Khavn De La Cruz, fast-forward through them for you in this fragmentary, fired-up super cut.
Manila in the Claws of Light
A pungent slice of neo-realist noir, Manila in the Claws of Light is regarded as the greatest Philippine movie ever made. It's the story of a fisherman, Julio, who comes to the big city in the footsteps of his fiancée, who has gone missing.
Memories of Murder
Parasite director Bong Joon-ho's police procedural is the centrepiece of our retrospective and arguably his masterpiece. Certainly, among serial killer movies this one is on a par with Zodiac and The Silence of the Lambs, but more politically astute.
Barking Dogs Never Bite
Bong's first film is a genial black comedy involving the deaths -- accidental and otherwise -- of several dogs in a Seoul apartment complex. Saturday's screening will be followed by a talk by Distinguished Professor Dal Yong Jin.
Snowpiercer
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a bullet train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
