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Reviews

“Intelligent, wicked, sometimes vicious (Bernal did not spare anyone, especially himself), this anti-biography is presented as a wide-ranging conversation between filmmaker Ishmael Bernal and his closest friend, the scholar and screenwriter Jorge Arago. Mercifully many of Bernal’s targets are long-dead, because he murders them.” / Jessica Zafra, author of The Age of Umbrage

“As a triumph of memory, happenstance, superb editorial work and design, it’s the most fascinating local book I’ve held in my hands of late.” / Alfred A. Yuson, Philippine Star

“Way cheaper and much better than going to film school.” / Khavn De La Cruz, founder and festival director of .MOV International Film Festival

Author Biography

Ishmael Bernal (1938-1996) is known for several critically-acclaimed Filipino films: Manila By Night, Himala, Nunal sa Tubig, Pagdating sa Dulo, Relasyon, etc., many of which reflected on social injustice, gender relations, and other realities of the country. Hailed as one of the geniuses of Philippine cinema, he was recognized as National Artist for Film in 2001.

Jorge Arago (1943-2011) is a rogue scholar and cross-genre writer who is best known for writing the screenplay of Ishmael Bernal’s Nunal sa Tubig (1976) and Briccio Santos’s Ala Verde, Ala Pobre (2005).

Angela Stuart-Santiago is a writer and pop historian who authored three definitive books on the 1986 EDSA Revolution — EDSA Uno (2013), Himagsikan sa EDSA —Walang Himala! (2000), and Chronology of a Revolution, 1986 (1997).