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Jun 27, 2022 · REEL TO REEL INSTITUTE. 2022/06/27. The Afterlife of Films. Mike de Leon’s cult classic horror ITIM (aka The Rites of May, 1976) was restored and premiered in Cannes Classics 2022. He won the Best Director at the 24th Asian Film Festival (later restructured as Asia-Pacific Film Festival) in 1978. As the original 35mm negative and optical ...
Synopsis. During a homecoming to his provincial home, a young man gets involved with a woman strangely haunted and ultimately possessed, by her sister's spirit, paving the way to revealing the painful truth about her unsolved disappearance.
i liked itim more because of the dark vibe and the plot twist, like god damn.. i also had a fear of christian images as a young kid (especially old worn out ones of the crucifix or mama mary (like the one that Jun’s mom had)) so that did something
Doy del Muno’s documentary about the making of Mike De Leon’s Itim also features the only scenes to survive from De Leon’s now-lost debut film, the 16mm short Monologo (Monologue) (1975). De Leon recalls, “Itim was filmed in my grandmother’s hometown of San Miguel, in her family’s ancestral house where more than two decades later I would also shoot Bayaning 3rd World. Doy and his ...
Oct 7, 2006 · Itim (1976) Mike de Leon's debut feature film Itim ( The Rites of May) opens with a seance. Catholic prayers are being recited by the spiritualist, as de Leon's camera circles the meeting. The prayers are silenced when the spiritualist announces that Rosa is dead. The mother (Mona Lisa) of Rosa asks if she can talk to her daughter.
Synopsis : 1 hr 46 minFantasy,Sci-fi,Thriller. A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants. Main Cast: Jeon Jong-seo • Kate Hudson • Ed Skrein. Director: Ana Lily Amirpour.
