Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81,” a seminal movie on fraternities and fascism, will be restored by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) in Singapore. De Leon told the Inquirer that Karen Chan, AFA executive ...
The restored version of Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81” will have its Philippine premiere Oct. 28, at TriNoma Cinema 2. It will be the closing film of the QCinema International Film Festival. Its world ...
JP Steelwood 81/85 completed yet another title run as they swept Batch ’95, 89-58, to capture the Division 1 championship in the recent University of San Carlos Boys High Alumni Basketball Association ...
More than three decades ago, “Batch ’81” unsettled local moviegoers and later international audiences with its unflinching depiction of campus fraternity violence. Directed by Mike de Leon and with ...
Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81” was a searing indictment of the violence and the brainwashing that happens behind closed doors in universities, as underground fraternities induct their clueless neophytes.
Vilma Santos in her career-defining role as “Sister Stella L” (1984). Songs from the original sound track had come from the zarzuela film conceived by Mike de Leon and José “Pete” Lacaba. Reclusive ...
The lives of seven neophytes as they strive to enter a Greek letter fraternity through a difficult hazing process. The entire experience is seen through the eyes of Sid Lucero, one of the neophytes.