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Follow the lives of Rikky, a talanted geologist, and her brother Pete, an off-the-wall mechanical genius. To find peace of mind they travel to the outbacks of Australia and meet up with a desert mining town full of zany individualists.

Rikky.and.Pete.1988.DVDRip.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 42 min
Size: 	3.40 Gib
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x480 
Aspect ratio:  	 4:3
Frame rate: 	29.970 FPS
Bit rate: 	4 535 kb/s
BPP: 	0.438
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 /192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/B2EA8ABFFB769F1/Rikky.and.Pete.1988.DVDRip.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

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This unique film from acclaimed Filipino director Raya Martin re-imagines his country’s past as an elemental humanist epic.

Fleeing the American invasion of the Philippines in the early 20th Century, a mother and son retreat into the jungle where they make a home. Time passes; a wounded woman is rescued; the mother dies; a child is born. The family survive isolated from the growing chaos engulfing their country, but a storm approaches that threatens their existence as American troops draw nearer…

Ingeniously staged on studio sets that evoke the lost period of early and silent cinema, Independencia’s mesmerising visual aesthetic creates a lush metaphor for the mythical history and identity of the Philippines and incisively explores the intersection between national history and cinema history.

Behind the scenes of Independencia

Track Projections (short film by Raya Martin, 2007)

Independencia 86 (short film by Raya Martin and Miko Revereza, 2014)

Independencia Script (.pdf)
Independencia Theme by Lutgardo Labad (.mp3)

1.58GB | 1h 17m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F7D367DFC4315A2/Independencia.2009.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6803F48316E9B67/Lutgardo_Labad_-_Independencia_Theme.mp3
https://nitro.download/view/AB71BAF8B373E94/Behind_the_Scenes_of_Independencia.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3F6BDEC2B01C44B/Independencia_86_(Raya_Martin_&_Miko_Revereza,_2014).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/5F62A0CAAEB53BE/Track_Projections_(Raya_Martin,_2007).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/29DCB108DE00A33/Independencia_Script.pdf

Language:Tagalog
Subtitles:English, French

The post Raya Martin – Independencia [+Extras] (2009) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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“Filipinas, farewell! Long live the Republic and may our independence be born in the future!”

Those were Macario Sakay’s last words before he was executed by hanging on September 13, 1907 for treason. His real crime was patriotism, breaking rank with the leaders who sold out the Philippine Revolution to the United States and waging a guerrilla resistance against the American colonial government. They called he and his soldiers “banditos,” a label which has stuck in the minds of many Filipinos generations later (that is, if they even remember his name). His existence in Philippine history negates the official narrative that the Philippine-American war ended in 1902. True patriots continued to invoke his name as a symbol of the unfinished revolution. It would take nearly 90 years after his death before director Raymond Red’s “Sakay” (1993), one of the most accessible and well-crafted bio-pics ever made in the Philippines.

Julio Diaz plays the stoic revolutionary heartthrob who stubbornly refuses to quit even after being jailed and watching the leaders of the Katipunan capitulate to the Americans. So he and his crew take to the hills and form a new revolutionary government, refusing to sell out and sacrificing family, romance and haircuts to finish what the Filipino people started against Spain. If any of this at all sounds like Steven Soderbergh’s Che, it’s no accident. Their stories are similar, and I’d bet Soderbergh came across this film before filming his. Sakay is more conventional, not deviating much from the action-drama template. For a film about a unfairly maligned person belatedly being reintroduced to public as a hero, the concessions are excusable, perhaps even necessary. Throughout the film, Sakay engages in conversation, sometimes heated debate, with Filipinos across the political spectrum. Red never casts Sakay as unquestionably right, but rather as the embodiment of a question himself: is this fight worth fighting for?

1.46GB | 1h 45mn | 704×384 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/657D788C832519B/Sakay.avi
https://nitro.download/view/B8DD792027DC4EB/Sakay_subbed_DVD-R_corr.srt

Language:Filipino, Tagalog, English
Subtitles:English

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