926 - Manila in The Claws of Light (1975)
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It\\u2019s been a while since Randy picked something from a nation\\u2019s film output with which we have little-to-no familiarity. \\xa0And a little 1970s Filipino cinema is just what we needed to break us out of the endless Criterion pattern of American/French/English/Japanese. \\xa0With this - celebrated director Lino Brocka\\u2019s adaptation of a novel following a young man named Julio (played by Rafael Roco Jr.) who searches for his missing girlfriend through the poverty and exploitative working conditions of the big city - we\\u2019re given a compelling human drama as our introduction.
If you\\u2019d like to watch ahead for next week\\u2019s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Quentin Tarantino\\u2019s\\xa0Pulp Fiction (1994).
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