Go East, Young Movie Fan

A Neophyte's Guide to East Asian Film:

In the 1960s infancy of the art house, the incubator of forward-thinking filmmakers was France, as former critics like Francois Truffaut bent Hollywood archetypes into the New Wave. But in the 21st century, the nexus of cinematic vitality is Asia. And notwithstanding the social realism of Iran and the sheer output of India's Bollywood entertainment machine, the epicenter of this revolution is in the eastern half of the continent.

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