BoyAngas

BoyAngas

Favorite films

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • La Haine
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

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  • Schindler's List

    ★★★★★

  • The Moises Padilla Story

    ★★★½

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    ★★★★★

  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    ★★★★★

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  • Schindler's List

    Schindler's List

    ★★★★★

    This film really puts the 'sad' in 'sadistic.'

  • The Moises Padilla Story

    The Moises Padilla Story

    ★★★½

    This film proves that if you make propaganda out of a tragedy, time will soon turn it into comedy.

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  • The Passion of Joan of Arc

    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    ★★★★★

    La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc: For the Religious and the Absurd

    “It is possible to be Christian and absurd.” says Albert Camus. I couldn’t understand what he meant by this when I first read it because it seemed so paradoxical, merging these two contrasting ideas with highly opposing tenets. It didn’t make any sense, especially when the cathedral of thought that Camus had built is based upon the very denial of what a cathedral represents — religion. However, profound understanding…

  • Drive My Car

    Drive My Car

    ★★★★½

    Now, this is how you make a Haruki Murakami film.

    Turning a short story of no fewer than 30 pages into a 3-hour film is an immense task that, in many ways, can only result in catastrophic failure. Luckily, I didn't witness such a disaster in "Drive My Car"; instead, I was granted the opportunity to witness something even more beautiful: a perfect synthesis of Hamaguchi's visual direction with Murakami's magical language. Also, ang galing ng paggamit nila ng diffirent…

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