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A silent comic masterpiece in the era of the talkies (City Lights); a politically unacceptable film with unbearable power (Nosferatu); a wounded film (Touch of Evil); a film where one sequence (a woman pulling her hair from a bowl) is worth the price of admission – and more films from Asia than before, as least for me. If history tells us anything it is that as Asia’s economic power rises so too will the world’s estimation of its cultures. I – we – need to see more of Asia’s cinema history.