Justin Chang
speaker
1,518 appearances
49 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5d ago
Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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are generally thought of as the doldrums of the movie release calendar.
The summer blockbusters have come and mostly gone.
And the fall Oscar contenders have yet to drop.
Yet there are always new films worth seeking out, usually flying just under the radar.
You may not have heard of the terrific new movie Filippiniana.
Which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
It's in theaters now, and it marks the arrival of a remarkable talent, a Filipino writer and director named Rafael Manuel.
In a way, Philippinana is an ideal thing to watch in a nice cool theater at the end of a brutally hot summer.
It's been a while since a movie so powerfully captured the sweltering heat of the season.
or established such a vivid sense of place from its opening moments.
It begins on a tour bus making its way through the crowded streets of Manila.
Where a local guide tries to teach the bored looking passengers a few words in Tagalog.
Manila is in the midst of a drought.
Early on, Manuel shows us weary residents lining up for water rations and
and then cuts to a shot of sprinklers, irrigating an enormous golf course.
That's a bluntly effective bit of commentary.
We have arrived, along with that bus full of tourists, at an upscale resort.
A lush green oasis of luxury in one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
For the rest of its one hundred or so minutes, Philipignana will never leave the resort.
It's a realistic yet satirical portrait of life inside a hermetically sealed bubble.
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