The first of Diaz-Abaya's trilogy of films about women with screenwriter and fellow National Artist Ricky Lee, "Brutal" was the first Filipino movie to address gender-based violence as a feminist ...

Marilou Díaz-Abaya (30 March 1955 – 8 October 2012) was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was the founder and president of the Marilou Díaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center ...

"Brutal" (1980). Directed by National Artist Marilou Diaz-Abaya; screenplay by National Artist Ricky Lee. Monica Real is accused of murdering her husband, Tato, and two others. In jail, she ...

Earlier this year, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz had a near-death experience, and not for the first time. He was editing his new film, Magellan, when he began vomiting blood. “I almost died from ...

From bloated, big-budget sci-fi streaming clunkers featuring more VFX than story, to hollow action-comedy movies we couldn't ... the ever-charismatic Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx, but wastes ...

We do have Brillante Mendoza, Lav Diaz, and before them, we have Brocka, Bernal, and Marilou Diaz-Abaya, but we need a new generation of filmmakers—we just cannot depend on the so-called pillars.” ...

He also wasn’t putting a formal timetable on Diaz’s return from an IL stint that was as much about getting his delivery right as it was any lingering discomfort from the minor tug he ...

These are the must-see films to check off your list before the end of the year. George Woodhouse and Kathryn St. Jean can manage being married and working together. In fact, the situation seems to ...