• Keshi Kishi was the first Japanese actress to grace the cover of Kinema Junpo in 1954. Image courtesy of Kinema Junpo.
  • Cinemaya Issue 1 - 1998
  • Imagekeeper 1989 City of Sadness
  • Screen Voice 2
  • Gelanggang Film Feb 1962
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  • Hospitalite 1
  • As I Lay Dying Still 1
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  • 01 Jan 2012

    An Interview with Keiko Akechi

    An interview with Keiko Akechi, Editor-in-chief of Kinema Junpo. Founded in 1919, it is the oldest surviving film magazine in Asia. How did it start and how has it evolved over the years?

  • 01 Jan 2012

    The Story of Cinemaya

    It was in 1988 that Aruna told me she was starting a magazine on Asian cinema and that Latika Padgaonkar would also be working with her. She asked me to join. Have you thought of a name for the magazine? I asked. Yes, Cinemaya , she replied.

  • 01 Jan 2012

    Between Idealism and Survival: A Survey of Taiwanese Film Magazines

    The two most important publications that contributed to cinematic discourse in Taiwan were Theatre and Influence. Many considered Imagekeeper Monthly the ideal film magazine because of its wide-ranging and extensive coverage on European, Hollywood, and Asian films.

  • 01 Jan 2012

    Early Film Publications in Singapore

    Wong Han Min, an avid private collector of film memorabilia, shares some of the early film-related publications from Singapore and Malaysia. What were the films distributed and who were the audience? Take a look at some of the early film magazines such as Picture Book and Screen Voice.

  • 01 Jan 2012

    Gelanggang Film

    Among the most interesting film magazines are those related to the dominant film personality of the period, P. Ramlee. Under his editorship, Gelanggang Film (Film Arena) critically assessed Malay films made in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s.

  • 01 Jan 2012

    Hong Kong Movie Magazines of the 1950s

    See 1950s Hong Kong Cinema through the magazine collection of an avid fan. Dave Wells shares about the International Screen, Southern Screen, The Great Wall Pictorial, The Union Pictorial, Happiness Movieland and Screenland.

  • 01 Jan 2012

    Hospitalité

    There is a disarming simplicity of style to Hospitalité that conceals some very delicate and precise filmmaking. I am always intrigued when characters are framed from behind, and Fukada does this often and well. Eventually, it is the delightful absurdity of the people and situations in Hospitalité that make it memorable.

  • 01 Jan 2012

    Introduction on As I Lay Dying

    What struck me about As I Lay Dying (2007) when it first screened at the Malaysian Shorts Screening in Kuala Lumpur several years ago was the director’s uncharacteristic reliance on close-up shots.

  • 01 Jan 2012

    Hong Sang-soo: Can Images Go On Without Thought?

    Images are present, manifest. They do not present something to us, they are not manifestations of something. Rather, they have their own individuality, their singularity. They exist outside of us, and go on existing after we die.

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