Light-Tinted Lens

cinema

  • “Magellan” (Lav Diaz, 2025) – 9/10

    Philippine spirit unconquered. Through layers of shadows, languages, and landscape, human and non-human perspectives, and a camera that shows the minuscule-ness of man against the giant of nature, Lav Diaz uses Magellan to shift Eurocentric narratives of colonization. In almost… Continue reading

    “Magellan” (Lav Diaz, 2025) – 9/10

  • “Fanny and Alexander” (Ingmar Bergman, 1982) – 7/10

    With all the commercial crap going on on Netflix, do ‘pure Christmas’ movies still exist? And, I’m not talking about the cheesy Hallmark kind. But, ones that captured the spirit of the holiday. Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (1982) is… Continue reading

    “Fanny and Alexander” (Ingmar Bergman, 1982) – 7/10