It’s taken four years for Triumph of Death — the quartet that former Celtic Frost frontman Tom G. Warrior launched to celebrate his first band, Hellhammer — to release a music video, but they’ve done so just in time for Halloween. The clip presents a live performance of “Massacra,” a galloping black-metal blast off Hellhammer’s Apocalyptic Raids EP from 1984. “Away is the suuuuun,” Warrior bellows in the chorus. “Endless the night/Mankind’s massacra/Intelligence is dead.” The performance, which features on the band’s upcoming debut album, Resurrection of the Flesh,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
That three out of the Top 13 best Filipino Films listed by Asian Movie Pulse from the period of 70s to 80s were directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya already speaks volumes of her singularity as a filmmaker. Discomfiting, dissenting, disturbing are just some of the characteristics that could describe her body of work, but they could also just be characterized by this statement: death to the patriarchy.
This, and shame to women's own internalized misogyny. Abaya was inexorably critical of enablers even before this word became ubiquitous in contemporary online spaces, exposing the chain of relations and connections which destroy, downplay and dilute a woman's identity. Concomitant to this is her questioning of false dichotomies and relentless encouragement to go beyond convenient labels, an audacious and necessary pursuit which she did in films that pushed the Filipino to question dominant and trite narratives about his own history.
Below are just some the...
This, and shame to women's own internalized misogyny. Abaya was inexorably critical of enablers even before this word became ubiquitous in contemporary online spaces, exposing the chain of relations and connections which destroy, downplay and dilute a woman's identity. Concomitant to this is her questioning of false dichotomies and relentless encouragement to go beyond convenient labels, an audacious and necessary pursuit which she did in films that pushed the Filipino to question dominant and trite narratives about his own history.
Below are just some the...
- 5/18/2023
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
Adapted and written by Ricky Lee from the legal story “To Take a Life” by Teresa Añover Rodriguez, “Karnal” concludes the feminist trilogy by Marilou Diaz-Abaya (“Brutal” and “Moral” are the other two entries), while it screened at the Metro Manila Film Festival winning awards for Best Film, Sound Engineering, Cinematography, and Art Direction, among a number of other awards from local festivals. In 2015, the film was digitally restored and remastered in high-definition by the Abs-cbn Film Restoration under the leadership of Leonardo P. Katigbak and Central Digital Lab under Rick Hawthorne and Manet Dayrit. The restored version of “Karnal” was premiered on August 13, 2015, as one of the special features for the 11th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
The film begins with a middle-aged woman functioning as a narrator, and telling a story that took place in the 1930s, during the American colonial era. Newly-wed couple Narcing and Puring arrive at the former's birthplace,...
The film begins with a middle-aged woman functioning as a narrator, and telling a story that took place in the 1930s, during the American colonial era. Newly-wed couple Narcing and Puring arrive at the former's birthplace,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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