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“Richard Bolisay crosses the threshold from the virtual provisionality of the limitless blog to the material scarcity of permanent print, capturing in the process the verve and vibe of a Philippine cinema reinvigorated by digital culture. As a prolific online critic, he alludes to his itinerary as an ‘unpaid’ reviewer and his nostalgia for the days ‘before Facebook and Twitter,’ which intimate the challenges that serious film writers face today of a public saturated with films in a new attention economy.” / Patrick F. Campos, author of The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century

“Belligerent, abrasive, chaotic, erudite, incisive, emotional, sometimes tender, often funny — this is the compendium of Richard Bolisay’s essays on Philippine cinema. Read as a whole, it gives the sense of a national cinema that is dense and prolific, and in its profusion is eventually triumphant. As a specific voice, Bolisay’s resonates with a voracious appetite, not just for cinema, but for language and for discourse.” / Dodo Dayao, writer and director of Violator and If You Leave

“Reading this collection allows one to appreciate the scope of Richard Bolisay’s work and feel the weight of the history it chronicles. It is an essential document of a period that’s been touted as Philippine cinema’s Third Golden Age. That it’s being published supposedly 100 years after the birth of Filipino movies only reinforces its significance as both a signing off of an epoch and a prayer for the next one.” / Erwin Romulo, former editor-in-chief of Rogue and Esquire Philippines

Author Biography

Richard Bolisay was born in Sta. Cruz, Manila, in 1987. As a writer and film critic, he has participated in film festivals in Berlin, Locarno, Hong Kong, Jeonju, Berwick, Edinburgh, Brighton, Cebu, and Manila. He teaches film in the University of the Philippines and is one of the artistic directors of the collective Cinema Is Incomplete.