November 14, 2023 12:21 am
E-Book Edition (2026)
Cover design by Paolo Miguel G. Tiausas
“Bomba” © 2019 by Mina Saha
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desktop mode is highly recommended.
This link will open the PDF version.]
Other useful directories:
An alphabetically arranged list of auteurs
(with their respective films & years of release);
an alphabetically arranged list of titles; and
a chronologically arranged list of titles.
Contents
© 2026 by Amauteurish Publishing &
College of Social Sciences, Inha University
All Rights Reserved
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Part 1. Preface & Introduction
Part 2. Canon Munitions: From the Beginning to 2020
Note: This list is ordered chronologically according to premiere or initial release date, each of these 144 entries followed by the inclusive years of the directors’ selected films as well as by the total number of selected titles. Credits and synopses were prepared by the author and/or staff members of YES Magazine.
Beginnings through First Golden Age (1950–1959)
and end of the interval (1960–1973)
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Second Golden Age (1974–1986)
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End of Second Golden Age
to end of the past millennium (1987–1999)
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First decade of the millennium (2000–2009)
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Second decade of the millennium:
first half (2010–2014)
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Second decade of the millennium:
second half to cutoff year (2015–2020)
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Part 3. Cessations
Part 4. Appendices (not included in the PDF file):
• “Moving Targets” – an informal account of how Canon Decampment: E-Book Edition got written.
• “Malay-Language Films by Filipinos” – on my attempt to compile and translate films made by local talents recruited in the 1950s by Sir Run Run Shaw, originally posted on Facebook.
• “To Track Down a Rare Film Title” – an account of my search for a copy of Vilgot Sjöman’s Jag Rodnar (I Am Blushing), which he filmed in the Philippines in 1981.
• A sequence breakdown of Nora Aunor’s Greatest Performance (1989), the only unfinished entry in the canon list.
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National Library of the Philippines CIP Data
David, Joel.
11011Canon decampment : E-book edition / Joel David. — Quezon City : Amauteurish Publishing ; Incheon, Korea : The College of Social Sciences, Inha University, [2026], © 2026.
11011380+xxvi pages ; 22 × 28 cm
11011ISBN 978-621-96191-9-6: PDF (downloadable)
110111. Motion pictures — Philippines — History — 20th century. 2. Motion pictures — Philippines — History — 21st century. 3. Motion pictures producers and directors. 4. Motion picture industry — Philippines. I. Title.
791.430959911111111PN1993.5.P6111111112026111111011P420260101
US Copyright Office Certificate of Registration:
TXu 2-402-907
Digital Object Identification:
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