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Feb 24, 2023 · A germ of a movie in itself. In a solemn moment toward the end of the journey, nostalgia takes over. The reader beholds the scene from a distance while De Leon watches alone the last of LVN Pictures’ walls being leveled to the ground, the inexorable end of an era. To order the book, send email to llbcontramundum@gmail.com, or call 0945-280-7893.
Dec 15, 2020 · Veteran director Mike De Leon isn’t an exception and he may have a tip or two to younger directors based on his experience with “Kisapmata” and the censors exactly 39 years ago. One fateful day in early December in 1981, De Leon was summoned by government censors headed by former senator and beauty queen Maria Kalaw Katigbak.
Nov 16, 2022 · Filipinos can watch the digitally-restored version of the revered Filipino classic film "Itim" (The Rites of May) by Mike De Leon, which earned Charo Santos her first Best Actress award at the 1978 Asian Film Festival.
Nov 21, 2022 · Founded in 1938 by Narcisa “Doña Sisang” De Leon (Mike’s grandmother), the family’s production company, LVN Pictures, became one of the “big four” studios in the Philippines between the 1940s and 1960s. Under her supervision, the studio produced about 25 films a year during what is considered the First Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.
Itim (pelikula) Itim. (pelikula) Ang Itim ay isang nakaaantalang pelikula sa direksiyon ni Mike De Leon noong 1976. Sa katotohanan, ang pelikula ay unang pagsubok ng larangan ng direksiyon ng buong pelikula ni De Leon. Ito ay nanalo ng kauna-unahang gawad sa pinakamahusay na sinematograpiya sa Gawad Urian. [1]
Mike De Leon, the producer and cinematographer of Lino Brocka’s haunting masterpiece Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), is one of Filipino cinema’s most fiercely political and dramatic storytellers in his own right. This complete retrospective, the first ever presented in North America, brings together all of De Leon’s feature films and shorts as a writer and director.
Nov 16, 2022 · De Leon was born into the industry. The De Leon family owned LVN Pictures, one of the Philippines’ leading film studios. This family connection is the reason the retrospective includes a few surviving LVN films from the 1930s-1960s like Mutya ng Pasig (Muse of the Pasig River), giving us a glimpse of movies produced in that era and showing how they were influential in De Leon’s career.
