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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 : 512 , 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 : 558 , 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 : 503 , 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 : 439 , 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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