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11/12/2025

First reviews from the video store are rolling in!! Rent now 🇨🇦🇺🇸

10/12/2025

Rent KISAPMATA now Video Store’s Lost & Found shelf 😍

Kisapmata: One of the top ten highest-rated Filipino films of all time by the Letterboxd community, and recently selected by Letterboxd’s Head of Editorial Mitchell Beaupre as the greatest underseen horror film ever made, this brand new 4K restoration of the late Mike De Leon’s claustrophobic thriller premieres digitally for the first time on Video Store exclusively.

09/12/2025

We’re very excited to share that KISAPMATA will be making its digital debut on the newly minted Video Store, in the inaugural Lost & Found shelf. It’s a great priviledge to work on Filipino films and we’re grateful to play a small part in its continued recognition. 🇵🇭

Considered one of the greatest Filipino films of all time, Mike de Leon’s masterpiece about a young woman living under her domineering father’s suffocating control won ten awards at the 1981 Metro Manila Film Festival including Best Film, and screened at Cannes the following year.

This new 4K restoration premieres digitally, celebrating the late director’s uncompromising vision that faced censorship under the Marcos regime.

KISAPMATA is now screening in select cinemas, is avalaible on Blu-ray and will be available digitally exclusively on Letterboxd Video Store on launch Dec. 10th.

RIP Mike De Leon 🕊️

08/12/2025

on becoming Mila 🥶

KISAPMATA tonight with introductions from .oftheworld & 🇵🇭

Also screening at & more

07/12/2025

KISAPMATA — Mike De Leon’s masterful allegory of authoritarian rule— expands this winter.

It screens tomorrow in the presence of filmmaker Ida Anita del Mundo and Marie Jamora, founder of . We couldn’t be prouder to return to the Academy.

Also screening at and later this season and .

“Mike De Leon (1947–2025), one of the most significant filmmakers of the Second Golden Age of Philippine cinema, bases his 1981 psychological thriller masterpiece on Nick Joaquin’s true crime story and constructs the narrative into a critical allegory for Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship. Vic Silayan plays a retired policeman who asserts... authoritarian control over his wife and son-in-law while indulging in a twisted obsession with his daughter. Bold close-ups of the characters not only parallel the claustrophobic undertone of the film but also herald a sense of looming doom.” — Academy Museum

In memory of Mike De Leon. 🕊️

05/12/2025

👰🏽🤵🏽‍♂️You’re invited to the wedding of the season! 💍💒

Mila & Noel’s 44th wedding anniversary comes up next *Monday*, with screenings opening tonight (Dec 5) at & running all week & on December 8!

starring Jay Ilagan Vic Silayan & Charito Solis

Presented at the with comminity partners .media Center for Southeast Asian Studies 💗

04/12/2025

Actor & Assistant Director on KISAPMATA, screening on December 8 with introductions by & Ida Del Mundo

Double bill it with presenting BATCH ‘81 at on December 9 🔪

16/11/2025

PINK CUT (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1983)

Now out on Bluray!

Before THE FAMILY GAME redefined the Japanese cinema of the 1980s, Yoshimitsu Morita cut his teeth on two remarkable erotic films for Nikkatsu’s Roman P***o line: TOP STRIPPER (1982) and PINK CUT: LOVE ME HARD, LOVE ME DEEP (1983).

Marked by an atypically sweet, sex-positive tone and an infectious pop sensibility that stands out amongst the more tortured classics of the genre, both films find the independent filmmaker working with studio resources for the first time and therefore experimenting with various new modes of filmmaking.

✂️ .
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13/11/2025

TOP STRIPPER (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1982)

Now out on Blu-ray.

Before The Family Game redefined the Japanese cinema of the 1980s, Yoshimitsu Morita cut his teeth on two remarkable erotic films for Nikkatsu’s Roman P***o line: Top Stripper (1982) and Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep (1983). Marked by an atypically sweet, sex-positive tone and an infectious pop sensibility that stands out amongst the more tortured classics of the genre, both films find the independent filmmaker working with studio resources for the first time and therefore experimenting with various new modes of filmmaking.

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12/11/2025

November 13 Double bill with introductions by director at 4:30 for BATCH ‘81 and historian and NYU professor and nephew of director Mike De Leon at 7:00 for KISAPMATA 🏡

10/11/2025

❤️‍🔥 will be introducing a screening of BATCH ‘81 on Thursday, November 13, 4:30PM

08/11/2025

Director included Kisapmata in his list of the Greatest Films of All Time, crediting it for being one of the films that convinced him to be a filmmaker.

Kisapmata screens at this week and at on December 8

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