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TV-14 | 95 min | Drama. The life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them. Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Rez Cortez, Marlon Ramirez. Votes: 2,133.
Today is the 79th birth anniversary of Lino Brocka, National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts. By refurbishing and constantly reworking the melodramatic genre, Catalino “Lino” Ortiz Brocka articulated his people’s collective memory, bleeding through detailed images of daily experiences of characters that cling to the slightest rays of hope after a series of trials, persecutions, and ...
May 23, 1991 · Lino Brocka, a director whose films had a strong social content, died here early today. He was 52 years old. Mr. Brocka was killed when the car in which he was riding hit a utility pole, the ...
LINO BROCKA was born 45 years ago into an humble rural family in Sorsogon, southern Luzon, the Philippines. An avid movie fan, he was impressed as a youngster, in the turbulent years following World War II and Philippine independence, by the happy-endings of the usually American films.
Directed by Lino Brocka • 1975 • Philippines. Lino Brocka achieved international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, a breakout example of the more serious-minded filmmaking the director had turned to after building a career on mainstream movies he described as “soaps.”
Lino Brocka. [Culture Trip on Lino Brocka]: Lino Brocka was a radical filmmaker whose socially conscious films explored the plight of the marginalized and ignored sectors of Filipino society. Maria Soriano explores his trailblazing life and career, and looks at his films, which are unfortunately unattainable outside of The Philippines.
May 14, 2024 · Lino Brocka’s restored classic film ‘Bona,’ with Philippines’ female superstar Nora Aunor, returns to Cannes and sets releases in the U.S. and France.
