Little White Lies

10 stories

Little White LiesCarrie, Crystal Lake and the Price of Conformity

10.28

Little White LiesLance Oppenheim: ‘The line between criminal enterprise and entertainment has become so fragile’

10.28

Little White LiesAnimol review – boyhood behind bars

10.28

Little White LiesI Love Boosters review – a technicolour takedown of capitalism

10.28

Little White LiesGentle Monster review – provocation without purpose

10.28

Little White LiesPrimetime review – Pattinson's uncanny take on Hansen is a career high

10.27

Little White LiesNightborn review – bad baby, bad movie

10.26

Little White LiesWicker review – a swooning comic fairy-tale with a large side of spice

10.26

Little White LiesThe Macabre Convergence of FW Murnau's Art and Life

10.26

Little White LiesLee Chang-dong: ‘Am I worthy of telling their story?’

10.22

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