Richard Linklater's Apollo 10 1/2 is the director's take on the moon landing, which for him isn't just a passion project or historic event to dramatize but his childhood, literally. Maybe one of the funnier moments in the film is when Stan (Milo Coy as the youth, Jack Black as the reminiscing adult) cites all the ways the space race has permeated everyday life: not just car dealership discounts ("the closer they get to the moon the lower our prices…
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The Last Temptation of Christ 1988
Call The Last Temptation of Christ my favorite Martin Scorsese film-- not perhaps his best or most ambitious, just my favorite. Grew up Catholic, saw many of the classic Jesus movies, liked most of them with little contextual knowledge or sense of discernment. By '88 I'd seen and enjoyed Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, King of Comedy, After Hours; the idea of Scorsese tackling the life of Jesus-- knowing he wasn't shy about using Catholic imagery, or about putting personal beliefs…
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Moral 1982
Marilou Diaz-Abaya's Moral (1982) bends stereotypes from the start, beginning where most romantic comedies end, with a marriage. Maritess (Anna Marin) is in the process of being wedded to (welded to?) Dodo (Ronald Bregendahl) when Joey (Lorna Tolentino) stumbles late into the church, fumbles her way to a seat, giggles at inappropriate moments; Kathy (Gina Alajar) sings a heartfelt song but--isn't she off-key? When the ceremonies end it's not bride and groom running out from under a shower of flung…
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Scorpio Nights 1985
You can see what Gallaga was shooting for: a lowbudget version of Nagisha Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses complete with Japanese-style erotic lighting--though I can't help but picture Gallaga in a movie theater, watching Hilda Koronel under her ethereal mosquito netting in Lino Brocka's Insiang and thinking "yes." The difference between Oshima's beautifully crafted political tract and Gallaga's is tension: the wife bored beyond belief, open to try something--anything--new, the student alone in his overhead dorm pining for the lonely wife; looming behind, the figure of the guard with his holstered sidearm.
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