New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center is bringing out the best and the brightest of Asian cinema with its now-venerable Asian Cinema Festival, happening between July 1-14. This year marks the fest’s tenth year in existence. The festival will include premieres of Takashi Miike’s “Ninja Kids!!!” and Eiji Uchida’s 60s throwback “The last days of the world,” the international premieres of the Johnnie To-produced thriller “Punished” and Yu Irie’s love letter to rock’n’ roll, “Ringing in their ears.”

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At Screen Comment we love us a good, brainy actor every once in a while—actor/filmmakers? Even better. In the previous two decades there was Spacey, then there was Malkovich, and now it’s the new guard with James Franco. Franco has that wonderful and compound quality: self-effacing while at the same time exuding a certain authority over American filmic output. The same guy who appeared in “Pineapple Express” as a stoner who’d make the guys from “Wayne’s World” jealous is also the guy who directs the “The Clerk’s Tale.” We guess it’s unnecessary to mention ...