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Sibak: Midnight Dancers is a 1994 Philippines film, and the first of a series of three gay-themed movies by Mel Chionglo and Ricky Lee about the lives of macho dancers (strippers) [1] in the gay bars of Manila. The later two are Burlesk King and Twilight Dancers. [2] All three follow in the tradition of Lino Brocka's 1988 film Macho Dancer.
Coco Martin as Iliac; Jaclyn Jose as Naty; Alan Paule as Alfredo/Marina Hidalgo; Katherine Luna as Tessa; R.U. Miranda as Lorena; Aaron Christian Rivera as Maldon; Arianne Camille Rivera as Faye
Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed by Lino Brocka. [2] It explores the realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by his American boyfriend, is forced to support himself and his family in Manila 's seamy red-light district . [ 3 ]
Vic Ungasis (Vic Sotto) is an archaeologist who has recovered the Kali of Humabon and is looking for a partner sword, the Kampilan of Lapulapu, plus the Peseta, one of Judas Iscariot's 30 pieces of silver which reportedly gives the bearer immortality, while taking care of a Cambodian-Filipino boy (Buboy Villar) who was orphaned when his parents were killed.
Cry Macho is a 2021 American neo-Western drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Nick Schenk and N. Richard Nash, based on Nash's 1975 novel. Set in 1979, it stars Eastwood as a former rodeo star hired to reunite a young boy (Eduardo Minett) in Mexico with his father ( Dwight Yoakam ) in the United States.
Along with his brother Jesus, they founded the film company Malayan Movies which later produced over a hundred movies. Some of the titles include La Venganza de Don Silvestre (1920), La Mariposa Negra (1920), and El Capullo Marchito (1921) among others. Lino Brocka was a prominent Filipino director who received fame in the 1970s. Growing up, he ...
These masks are primarily worn during the Moriones and MassKara Festivals. [155] [156] [157] Puppet-making is a related art whose products are used in plays and festivals such as the Higantes Festival. [158] Most indigenous masks are made of wood, and gold masks (made for the dead) were common in the Visayas region before
Brocka was born in Pilar, Sorsogon. [9] He grew up and lived in San Jose, Nueva Ecija [10] [11] and graduated from Nueva Ecija High School in 1956. [12] He attended the University of the Philippines and began working in theatre, acting and directing plays where his career in cinema and television followed suit. [13]