Pinoy pride: Mike de Leon retrospective at MoMA NY
‘Mike de Leon, the producer and cinematographer of Lino Brocka’s haunting 1975 masterpiece Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Light), is one of Filipino cinema’s most fiercely political and dramatic storytellers in his own right. This complete retrospective, the first ever presented in North America, brings together all of De Leon’s feature films and shorts as a writer and director, said MoMA’s website
‘MAYNILA sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag’ (1975).
Mike de Leon will be given the rock star treatment in New York — at the Museum of Modern Art, no less.
The occasion, Mike de Leon: Self-portrait of a Filipino Filmmaker is a retrospective of his best works to be screened from 1 to 30 November at Floor T2/T1, The Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center, MoMa, 11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan, New York City.
It's a first in the United States and has not been even done in the Philippines in recent years.
The MoMA website described the retrospective:
'KUNG Mangarap Ka't Magising' (1977).
"Mike de Leon, the producer and cinematographer of Lino Brocka's haunting 1975 masterpiece Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Maynila in the Claws of Light), is one of Filipino cinema's most fiercely political and dramatic storytellers in his own right. This complete retrospective, the first ever presented in North America, brings together all of De Leon's feature films and shorts as a writer and director.
"De Leon's films are presented alongside some of the few surviving classic melodramas, musicals, costume dramas, and noir films of the 1930s–'60s to come out of the greatest of all Filipino studios, LVN Pictures, which was founded in 1938 by De Leon's grandmother Doña Sisang.
