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- Manila in the claws of night [videorecording] = Maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag / by Abella, Jojo,actor.; Abuel, Tommy,actor.; Brocka, Lino,1939-1991,film director.; Del Mundo, Clodualdo,Jr.,1948-screenwriter.; Jarlego, Edgardo,editor of moving image work.; Jarlego, Ike,Jr.,1944-2012,editor of moving image work.; Jocson, Max,composer (expression); Koronel, Hilda,actor.; León, Miguel de,film producer,director of photography.; Manotok, Severino,Jr.,film producer.; Roco, Bembol,1953-actor.; Salvador, Lou,actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Reyes, Edgar.Sa mga kuko ng liwanag.; Cinema Artists Philippines (Firm),production company.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269;
Disc one. [Feature film] -- disc two. [Special features].Director of photography, Miguel De Leon ; music, Max Jocson ; editors, Edgardo Jarlego, Ike Jarlego, Jr.Hilda Koronel, Lou Salvador, Jr., Tommy Abuel, Rafael Roco, Jr., Jojo Abella, Lily Gamboa-Mendoza."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"--Container.Rating: Not rated.DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.- Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; City and town life; Fishers; Internal migrants;
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