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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Friday , September 28 , 2007
Genghis Khan at the World Film Festival
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 495 , 19:46:53   | Category : Thai film   World Film Festival of Bangkok  
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The Nation's World Film Festival of Bangkok website is starting to be updated, and the festival is offering what looks to be a strong line-up, with the highlight being a program from the European Union, which has traditionally put on its own film series each year in Bangkok.The opening film will be the Southeast Asian premiere of Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea, an epic Japanese-Mongol....


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Thai horror on DVD - The Victim and Alone
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 538 , 00:06:15   | Category : Thai film   horror  
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It's damn hard to come by recent releases of Thai films on English-subtitled DVDs. Those Thai films that do get overseas releases with English subs tend to be in the horror and action-film genres, which means there are dozens of films - well-crafted dramas and sharp satires in particular - that get overlooked, much to the chagrin of the filmmakers who made them. The move to save money by the film com....


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Wednesday , September 26 , 2007
Bangkok cinema scene: September 27 to October 3
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 491 , 23:04:18   | Category : cinema scene   film reviews  
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A puzzlingly light week for openings in Bangkok cinemas, with the only Hollywood release this week being Resident Evil: Extinction, which I've actually seen and didn't think was as bad as the 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes suggests.A little bit of Road Warrior and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, and a whole lot of Milla Jovovich makes for a passable action-horror film. The third in a series of films bas....


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Cherd Songsri Retrospective continues
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 420 , 22:46:43   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film   film reviews  
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The Cherd Songsri Retrospective continues until Sunday at Grand EGV Siam Discovery, offering a rare look at some of the classic films of Thai cinema. Organized by the Thai Film Foundation, showtimes are at 7pm on Thursday and Friday, 2pm on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are 120 baht. I saw Plao Kao twice last week, just because I could. In its purest form, Thai melodrama can beautiful and moving, and ....


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Wednesday , September 19 , 2007
Bangkok cinema scene: September 20 to 26
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 432 , 23:58:33   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film  
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In Shoot 'Em Up, Clive Owen plays a super cool gunman who teams up with a hooker with a heart of gold (Monica Belucci) to save an infant from the clutches of an assassin (Paul Giamatti). Critical consensus is that Shoot 'Em Up is another exercise in mind-numbing violence, but it looks pretty, with cinematography by Peter Pau, who worked with Ang Lee on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as John ....


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Cherd Songsri Retrospective
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 600 , 23:42:06   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film  
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A retrospective of the best films by one of Thai cinema's great directors, Cherd Songsri, is being held at Grand EGV Siam Discovery until September 30. Five films are being shown in a program organized by the Thai Film Foundation and the National Film Archive, with support from the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture.Cherd's films were unabashedly nostalgic and full of melodrama, but also containe....


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The 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok is coming
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 426 , 23:00:58   | Category : culture   cinema scene   World Film Festival of Bangkok  
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The website for the 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok, organized by Nation Multimedia, has been updated -- sort of. It has a placeholder welcome page, with a notice that "this year site is coming soon".The festival this year moves from the environs around Siam Square and Ratchaprasong to the slightly off-the-beaten path Esplanade on Ratchadaphisek Road. Located near the Bangkok subway's Th....


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Sunday , September 16 , 2007
Review: Bangkok Love Story
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 1965 , 17:57:38   | Category : Thai film   film reviews  
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6/10 movie: Bangkok Love Story (2007)Written and directed by Poj ArnonStarring Rattaballung Toesawat, Chaiwat Tongsang, Weeradit Srimalai, Chatcha RujinanonReleased in Thailand cinemas on September 13, 2007A shootout in a Buddha factory.If all I had to do was write that sentence as a means of critical response to Bangkok Love Story, I would be very happy indeed, because then I could move to more enjo....


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Links roundup: 13 Beloved DVD, Syndromes and censorship, cinema of Laos
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 436 , 17:42:22   | Category : culture   Thai film  
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A few things to mention:13 Beloved, the best Thai film of 2006, has received an English-subtitled DVD release in Singapore. If you haven't caught on, DVDs of Thai films released in Thailand routinely have no English subtitles. This is done so the film companies don't have to pay royalties to to the subtitle writers, and it saves a bit on production costs of the DVDs, and as a bonus, adds exclusivity ....


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Friday , September 14 , 2007
In memoriam: Bobby Byrd
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 543 , 22:21:06   | Category : music  
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Bobby Byrd was the guy heard on James Brown recordings like "Licking Stick", "Sex Machine" and "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved", encouraging Brown's squeals with gruff shouts of "Yeah!"A longtime sideman of Brown, Byrd actually gave Brown his big break, getting his family to sponsor Brown's release from prison. Brown then joined Byrd's band and ended up taki....


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