Letterboxd — Your life in film

2023 Philippine entry to the Academy Awards

My favorite Sebastián Silva (so far)

Somehow the pièce de résistance of this film, amid its barrage of hyperliterary namechecks and coprolalia, is a callback to Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. And when it comes up, it’s both riotous and annihilating. It’s the ULYSSES of Romanian cinema.

Locarno - First feature competition

Jury duty for Locarno

“Thank you, Lord, for having made your servant Morin a refined work of art.”

I’ll see you in my dreams.

Incredible. Watched on MUBI.

Seen at MoMA as part of “To Save and Project: The 19th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation”

A lean-and-mean masterpiece of dread and claustrophobia, its grip tightening with every taut, ominous frame leading up to its inevitable—yet no less chilling—finale.

One of the best domestic thrillers in Asian cinema, right up there with Kim Ki-young’s THE HOUSEMAID. 

New Yorkers: catch KISAPMATA at MoMA on Nov. 3 & 19 when it screens as part of their Mike de Leon retrospective all November.

My favorite TV series so far this year. Specters bedevil every frame of this, none looming larger than Maggie Cheung and VERTIGO.

My first time directing TV. I directed Episode 6–“Revelation”—which precedes the finale.