Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Lav Diaz's An Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget (2012) is showing February 8 - March 10, 2017 in the retrospective It's About Time: The Cinema of Lav Diaz.The night in question in Lav Diaz’s An Investigation on the Night That Won’t Forget is September 1, 2009. The night that two film critics, Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc, were murdered in their home in Quezon City, Philippines. An Investigation on the Night That Won’t Forget opens with a title card: “Part 1. Cradle of Memory.” The next image is a black and white shot of Erwin Romulo, Alexis’ close friend and editor. The doorway of his office frames him on either side as he sits in a chair facing the camera, a desk to his left, a bookshelf behind him. For the next 55 minutes the camera will not move and...
- 2/9/2017
- MUBI
Mubi is proud to present the first-ever online retrospective of renowned Filipino auteur Lav Diaz. To give audiences the proper time to spend immersed in Diaz’s cinema, Mubi will debut one film each month during the retrospective.Illustration by Leah BravoFilmmaker Lavrente Indico Diaz, named after Soviet statesman Lavrentiy Beria (1899-1953), was born on December 30th 1958 in the municipality of Datu Paglas, province of Maguindanao, Mindanao Island, Southern Philippines. The son of a fervently Catholic woman from the Visayas (Central Philippines) and a Socialist intellectual from Ilocos (Northern Philippines) who, firmly believing that education is the key to improve Man's condition, devoted their lives to schooling peasants in the poorest, remotest Maguindanao villages, Diaz has always had an utilitarian conception of culture and, by extension, of all forms of artistic expression. To Diaz, art should not be an end to itself, a purely formalist exercise, but—to paraphrase a...
- 10/8/2016
- MUBI
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