Slant Magazine: latest Asian cinema stories

Slant Magazine

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Slant MagazineUSA‘By Any Means’ Review: Elegance Bratton’s Uncritical Celebration of Revenge as Justice The film gestures toward interrogating state-sanctioned violence, but dubiously so.

September 4

Slant MagazineUSAReview: Claude Lanzmann’s Monumental ‘Shoah’ on “Special Edition” Criterion Blu-ray Lanzmann’s mammoth 1985 documentary is an angry landmark of demystification.

September 3

Slant MagazineUSABlu-ray Review: Barbara Kopple’s ‘American Dream’ on the Criterion Collection Watching it today, Kopple’s Oscar-winning documentary plays less like history than prophecy.

September 2

Slant MagazineUSAReview: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘The Secret Agent’ on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray Criterion canonizes Mendonça Filho’s nervy, despairing, intimate film as a new classic.

September 2

Slant MagazineUSAReview: Nakajima Sadao’s ‘Aesthetics of a Bullet’ on Radiance Films Blu-ray The film is a visceral and deeply unsettling portrait of a criminal underworld.

September 2

Slant MagazineUSA‘Onslaught’ Review: Adam Wingard’s Coarse and Angry B-Movie Throwback to a Throwback The director who gave us a couple of the coolest thrillers of the 2010s is back in a big way.

August 31

Slant MagazineUSA‘The Magnificent Cuckold’ Blu-ray Giveaway The film skewers the changing mores and tenacious prejudices of 1960s Italian society.

August 30

Slant MagazineUSA‘Chronovisor’ Review: A Thrilling, Borgesian Plunge Down a Conspiracy Rabbit Hole The film asks what remains of ourselves when we gaze into the past too hard for too long.

August 30

Cinepuuulse is a magazine, a radar and a diary about Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — read from Tokyo.

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku, the old word for the silver screen; it is the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. A magazine, because every week one film is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the region's screens are talking about — box office, festivals, directors, anime, streaming — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the local press in its own languages and bring it over in English: the Japanese film sites, the Korean trade papers, the Chinese culture desks, the Vietnamese and Thai entertainment pages. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Cinepuuulse will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If a film here made you want to buy a ticket, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。