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.

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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.

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Kasia Smutniak presenta ‘Mustang’ al Cinema Massimo di Torino

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Venerdì 30 ottobre, alle ore 20:30, Kasia Smutniak sarà ospite del Cinema Massimo di Torino per presentare in anteprima Mustang , il suo nuovo film, prodotto da Fandango e Luce Cinecittà , in uscita…

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