Film Reviews, By Alphabetical Order

(nostalgia)

Numbers and Symbols

(nostalgia)(Hollis Frampton / U.S. / 1971)

A

A Time to Swim (Ashley Duong / Canada/Malaysia / 2017)
A Man (Ken Ishikawa / Japan / 2022)
After the Curfew (Usmar Ismail / Indonesia / 1954) [Link 2]
All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh / U.K. / 2023)
Arena(João Salaviza / Portugal / 2009)
Ars Colonia (Raya Martin / PH / 2011)

B


Bullet Ballet (Shinya Tsukamoto / Japan / 1998)
Busong (Auraeus Solito / PH / 2011)
By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong/ Thailand / 2016)

C

Caravaggio(Derek Jarman / U.K. / 1986)

D

Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve / USA / 2024)

E


El Presidente (Mark Meily / Philippines / 2012)
Essential Truths of the Lake (Lav Diaz / Philippines / 2023)
Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Japan / 2023)

Finished

F

Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux / France / 1973)
Finished (William E. Jones / U.S.A. / 1997)

G

H

His (Japan / 2020)

I

I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis / France / 1994)

J

Je T’aime, Je T’aime (Alain Resnais/ France / 1968)

K

La Vie Nouvelle

L

La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso / Argentina / 2001)
La Vie Nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux / France / 2002)
Life of Pi (Ang Lee / U.S. / 2012)
Looking for Langston(Isaac Julien / U.S.A. / 1988)

M

Massillon (William E. Jones / U.S. / 1991)
Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax / France / 1986)

Never Not Love You

N

Never Not Love You (Antoinette Jadaones / PH / 2018)
Near Death (Frederick Wiseman / U.S. / 1989)
Now Showing (Raya Martin / PH / 2008)

O

People Power Bombshell

P

Pascalina (Pam Miras / Philippines / 2012)
Passages (Ira Sachs / France / 2023)
People Power Bombshell: A Diary of Vietnam Rose (John Torres / PH / 2016)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders / Japan / 2023)
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos / U.K. / 2023)
Pusong Bato(Pam Miras / Philippines / 2012)

Q

R

Respeto (Treb Montreras / Philippines / 2017)
Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song (John Torres / PH / 2010)
Rotting in the Sun (Sebastian Silva / Mexico-USA / 2023)

S

Sa Pag-alala ng Nawawala’t Naririyan (Eireen Carlos / Philippines / 2019)
Saltburn (Emerald Fennel / UK / 2023)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker / France / 1983)
Schists 2023 (Dirk de Bruyn / Netherlands / 2023)
Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul (Hu Jie / China / 2004)
Shake, Rattle, and Roll Extreme (Jerrold Tarog, Joey De Guzman, and Richard Somes / Philippines / 2023)
Signal Rock (Chito Roño / Philippines / 2018)
Society of the Snow (J.A. Bayona / Spain / 2023)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu / China / 1948)

T

Tabu (Miguel Gomes / Portugal / 2012)
Taksikab (Archie Del Mundo / PH / 2011)
The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki / Japan / 2023)
The Fluffer(Wash West and Richard Glatzer / U.S./ 2001)
The Foolish Bird (Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka / China / 2017)
The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper / UK / 2010)
The Road to the Racetrack (Jang Sun-Woo / South Korea / 1991)
The Seen and the Unseen (Kamila Andini / Indonesia / 2017)
The Sky Turns (Mercedes Álvarez / Spain / 2004)
The Taste of Things (Tran Anh Hung / France / 2023)
The Troll Hunter (André Øvredal / Norway / 2010)
Third World Romance (Dwein Baltazar / Philippines / 2023)

Underwater Love

U

Underwater Love ( Shinji Imaoka / Japan / 2011)

V

W

Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho / Japan / 1953)
Winnie The Pooh (Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall / U.S. / 2011)
Woman Hell Song (Mamoru Watanabe / Japan / 1970)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara / Japan / 1964)

X

Y

Yi Yi: A One and A Two (Edward Yang / Taiwan / 2000)

Z