Jaguar is a 1979 Filipino neo noir crime film directed by Lino Brocka.[1] It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The story is based on the real-life "Brown Derby Shooting" in 1960 as documented by Quijano de Manila in the article "The Boy Who Wanted to Become Society", later republished in the non-fiction crime anthology, Reportage on Crime (1977).[3][4]

Jaguar
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Directed byLino Brocka
Written by
Based on"The Boy Who Wanted to Become Society"
by Quijano de Manila
Produced byRolando S. Atienza
StarringPhillip Salvador
CinematographyConrado Baltazar
Edited byRene Tala
Music byVanishing Tribe
Production
company
Bancom Audiovision
Distributed byBancom Audiovision
Release date
  • 31 August 1979 (1979-08-31)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryPhilippines
Languages

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  1. ^ "LISTICLE: The Essential Films of Lino Brocka". Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Jaguar". Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
  3. ^ Romulo, Erwin T. (26 February 2010). "Pop crimes: Quijano de Manila's 'Reportage on Crime'". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  4. ^ Capino, José B. (2020). Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka's Cinema Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 77–84. ISBN 9780520974012.

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