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Manila in the Claws of Light
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Tagalog
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign films.
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (127 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1975
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- 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." A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn't been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest. Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, MANILA IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema
- Participant:
- Hilda Koronel, Lou Salvador Jr., Rafael Roco Jr.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1975
- OCLC:
- 1303728877
- Publisher Number:
- 12814159 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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