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DeadlineThe American French Film Festival At 30: Building Bridges Between French Cinema & Hollywood The American French Film Festival is kicking of its 30th edition tomorrow (November 3) at the DGA Theater Complex in L.A. and this year looks set to be one of its biggest lineups to date.

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DeadlineBen Wang Circling Iceman Role In Marvel’s ‘X-Men’ EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the release of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, where he plays District 12 tribute Wyatt Callow, Ben Wang has entered talks to play Iceman in Marvel Studios’ new X-Men…

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DeadlineBBC Director Of Research & Development Quits EXCLUSIVE: Jatin Aythora, the BBC’s director of research and development, is departing after an 11-year spell with the British broadcaster.

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DeadlineStephen McKinley Henderson To Topline Crime Drama ‘Anglers’ From Debut Filmmaker Zoe Simone EXCLUSIVE: Stephen McKinley Henderson, the veteran character actor seen in such recent films as Civil War and Beau Is Afraid, has signed on to lead Anglers, an indie crime drama marking the feature…

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo