Joel David's Fields of Vision

From pinoydvd.com:

keating: After 48 years, my friend finally returned Joel David's book- Fields of Vision. 

Here are some of our filmmakers top choices:

ISHMAEL BERNAL

1. SISA
2. ANAK DALITA
3. KUNDIMAN NG LAHI
4. SAWA SA LUMANG SIMBORYO
5. TINIMBANG KA NGUNIT KULANG
6. BOATMAN
7. BURLESK QUEEN
8. MORAL
9. KISAPMATA
10. GENGHIS KHAN

EDDIE ROMERO

1. TINIMBANG KA NGUNIT KULANG
2. KISAPMATA
3. MANILA BY NIGHT
4. MORAL
5. SCORPIO NIGHTS
6. MAYNILA SA KUKO NG LIWANAG
7. HINUGOT SA LANGIT
8. SALOME
9. TATLONG TAONG WALANG DIYOS
10. PARADISE INN

MEL CHIONGLO

1. JAGUAR
2. BATCH '81
3. BONA
4. KISAPMATA
5. HIMALA
6. SALOME
7. MAYNILA SA KUKO NG LIWANAG
8. ORO, PLATA, MATA
9. BURLESK QUEEN
10. SISTER STELLA L

MARILOU DIAZ ABAYA

1. MANILA BY NIGHT
2. THE MOISES PADILLA STORY
3. TINIMBANG KA NGUNIT KULANG
4. KISAPMATA
5. MORAL
6. GANITO KAMI NOON, PAANO KAYO NGAYON
7. BADJAO

LAURICE GUILLEN

1. SISA
2. THE MOISES PADILLA STORY
3. INSIANG
4. ORO, PLATA, MATA
5. SALOME
6. BIYAYA NG LUPA
7. KISAPMATA
8. IFUGAO
9. ANAK DALITA
10. BURLESK QUEEN

one thing in common......they all have Mike De Leon's KISAPMATA on their lists.

 

jojo de vera: in Marilou & Laurice's case they shouldn't have included their own films... if you'd notice none of the other director's included their own work.

keating: That makes Mike de Leon's KISAPMATA his best film? 

jojo de vera:  guess if it's in all of their list... personally i still think ITIM is his best film.

I prefer Kisapmata over Itim myself...but that's really splitting hairs, I think; they're both very good films.

David's book was useful for the lists of various people, but his use of statistics to come up with a master list I thought was silly...so Manila By Night comes out on top? Does his being a big fan of the film have nothing to do with it?

Manila By Night is a great film, Bernal's masterpiece and all, but unspoken considerations like that tend to throw doubt on the process. I think the separate lists are more honest, and more persusasive.

And Romero was one of the few if not the only one who lists Tatlong Taong (no one asked Teddy Co, who back in 1976 rated the film above Insiang) at all. Of course at this time the film wasn't in high favor; I'd say it was only with the 1993 or 1994 screening at Pelikula at Lipunan that the film's reputation started to turn around (Teddy, as usual, was ahead of his time).