John Torres
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John Torres at IFFR
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Todo todo teros
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well
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The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
At the age of 12, Maxi is a touching mother and slum queen. Even the idealistic cop Victor falls for his charms. A picture of a slum without sadness,
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Tawidgutom
A film as a poem. So why did this filmmaker not become a poet? You’ll understand that as soon as you see his images.
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The Night When Father Told Me He Had a Child Outside
The intention can remain obscure. The feeling can be indefinable. The images can be seeking. Yet still it is clear.
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Salat
Young Filipino film maker takes a good look around him and combines various observations into a playful whole that does not really want to be a whole.
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How I Can Court You Without Holding You
A film that wants to be a poem. With pictures that basically try too hard. Or is that poetic?
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Years When I Was a Child Outside
A film that openly describes the childhood of the film maker and his father who also had children outside their family. The frankness is cloaked by a
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Philippine Bliss
Tempestuous film maker held his breath for once and made an almost matter-of-fact portrait of several inhabitants of a decaying Filipino apartment dis
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Lukas the Strange
John Torres is the poet of Philippine cinema. A poet with his own rules and ways of working. He can announce to make a film in Mindanao, but then head
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Big Boy
Some films want to capture life the way it was. Or how the filmmaker thought it was. Not all attempts succeed, but this one does. A portrait of the he