Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?


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The result was no consensus. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  17:14, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?

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Can find no professional reviews or reliable media coverage about this film. Note that the present footnote #1 is about the real-life events that inspired the film, and some of the others are about festivals at which the film was played but with no precise commentary on the film itself. All that can be found otherwise are the typical retail listings and IMDB-like directories. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 14:50, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 14:50, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 14:50, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The film has been discussed at length in scholarly articles such as Christopher Pavsek's "Kidlat Tahimik's 'Third World Projector'" (2013) and Patrick Campos' "Kidlat Tahimik and the Determination of a Native Filmmaker" (2015), with both authors regarding it as Tahimik's greatest work. Pavsek emphasized Kidlat's unique mode-of-production for the film ("cups of gas" filmmaking) and the spaces depicted in it in how they indicate Tahimik's perspective, while Campos honed in on its central themes of independence, identity, and what "third world" means, along with Tahimik's eventual focus on Ifugao culture being an actualization of his own cinema (the achievable freedom from neocolonialism). LionFosset (talk) 15:41, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Found more reliable sources (BFI, Harvard Film Archive, TIFF & Time Out) Espngeek (talk) 21:40, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment from Nominator - I must point out the "there must be sources" fallacy. The first commenter (LionFosset) listed professional journal articles but is wrong about "discussed at length." The first by Pavsek analyzes three other films by the same filmmaker, and the second by Campos only mentions this film once as an example of the filmmaker's work. So those sources are valid for the Kidlat Tahimik article but do little for this film article. Meanwhile, the second commenter (Espngeek) has added a new source that is also about the filmmaker and not the film, and added some sources that are about the festivals at which the film was played but again are not about the film itself. As the nominator I am willing to improve the film's article in light of sources that I may have missed at the time, but the folks in this discussion have only provided evidence of festival appearances and discussion of the filmmaker's larger career. There are sources that can improve Kidlat Tahimik but this particular film is the item of discussion here. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 16:30, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the advice, DOOMSDAYER520, though Campos mentioning the film "once" is a bit of a stretch, as he does focus on the film in his article (but yes, as an example of his cinema). Maybe you searched for "Why Is Yellow...", even though Campos refers to it more as "Bakit Dilaw" or "Bakit Yellow". LionFosset (talk) 14:49, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 15:09, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - I stumbled upon on this film (well, the director actually) mentioned in a book but sadly I forgot about the title and it was also a public library that I read during 2011. Was it written by his German wife? I am not so sure now so not much to contribute here though. —Allenjambalaya (talk) 12:22, 17 November 2019 (UTC)


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