the ienna gaze

the ienna gaze

38% chick flick 62% social realism

Favorite films

  • Linda Linda Linda
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Lucía
  • Asog

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  • Leila and the Wolves

  • Her

  • The Sandlot

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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  • Leila and the Wolves

    Leila and the Wolves

    reminded me of lucia!

  • Her

    Her

    maybe i'm just 12 years too late but this was so boring in both form & content...... this was really the movie that had the 2010s in a chokehold??????? spike jonze had y'all fooled

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  • Asog

    Asog

    ★★★★½

    i had the pleasure of watching the nyc premiere with director seán devlin & central actor jaya—both comedians, co-writers of asog. they introduced the screening with jokes. seán said he couldn't go very long without laughing. after surviving typhoon yolanda, he asked around for comedy shows in leyte. that's how he met jaya.

    i used to think that documentaries needed to be sad or serious to be accepted as truth, but that is simply not the reality of a filipino. in fact:…

  • Signed: Lino Brocka

    Signed: Lino Brocka

    ★★★★★

    Blackwood: Don't you get tired of fighting?
    Brocka: It gets tiring, but what do you do? You just stop? I think that's worse. The moment you accept the fact that there cannot be any change, you know, that the system will not change, I think that's the time that you die. I might as well not do anything at all.

    in the last 15 minutes of signed, brocka talks about the shift in his relationship to moviemaking. he once believed that…