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

← Cinepuuulse Archive

The A.V. Club FilmUSA

AI investor Jeffrey Katzenberg says resisting AI is pointless

September 23

Jeffrey Katzenberg has a lot to say amid the ongoing discourse (and specifically the outrage) over the use of AI in Hollywood .

AI in film

Read at The A.V. Club Film ↗

VietnamChina bans thousands of 'vulgar and harmful' AI-generated films VnExpress International

FranceMarie Dumora, réalisatrice de “La ligne bleue” : “J’ai voulu filmer le contrechamp du camp de concentration du Struthof” Télérama — Cinéma

FranceMarie Dumora, réalisatrice de « La Ligne bleue » : « J’ai voulu raconter le contrechamp du camp, à travers les témoignages et l’oralité » Le Monde — Cinéma

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

AI investor Jeffrey Katzenberg says resisting AI is pointless

Related

VietnamChina bans thousands of 'vulgar and harmful' AI-generated films VnExpress International

FranceMarie Dumora, réalisatrice de “La ligne bleue” : “J’ai voulu filmer le contrechamp du camp de concentration du Struthof” Télérama — Cinéma

FranceMarie Dumora, réalisatrice de « La Ligne bleue » : « J’ai voulu raconter le contrechamp du camp, à travers les témoignages et l’oralité » Le Monde — Cinéma

USATell Us, O Muse, of Elon Musk's Racist AI Version of "The Odyssey" Hyperallergic Film

USAIn a New Documentary, Artists Get Candid About AI Hyperallergic Film

USAJean Smart might be The Family Stone‘s new mommy The A.V. Club Film