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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Sunday , October 14 , 2007
Bangkok cinema scene update - Short films for HM the King
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 310 , 12:44:31   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film  
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The free screenings of the short films for His Majesty the King are being shown at 2pm and 8pm daily until Wednesday at Paragon Cineplex. To obtain the free ticket, you must go to the table with the display for the Short Film Project. Don't go to the box office - they are only dealing with taking money for regular screenings and don't even have the short films listed in their computer.The films are a....


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Saturday , October 13 , 2007
Thai director shares top award at Pusan International Film Festival
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 310 , 00:36:35   | Category : Thai film   Festivals and awards  
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Thai director Aditya Assarat shares the New Currents Award from this year's Pusan International Film Festival with two other Asian filmmakers, Guang Hao-jin of China and Liew Seng Tat from Malaysia.Aditya was woken up with the news that he had won, according to an article by Agence France-Presse. "What a great way to greet the day," he was quoted as saying. "Film-making is a lonely pro....


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Friday , October 12 , 2007
Ladda: Moviegoers in Thailand are uneducated
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 647 , 23:59:54   | Category : culture   Thai film   Censorship and ratings  
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"Uneducated." This is what a government official thinks of moviegoers in Thailand."They're not intellectuals — that's why we need ratings," Ladda Tangsupachai, 58, head of the Cultural Surveillance Department at the Ministry of Culture, is quoted as saying in a recent article in Time magazine.The US-based news mag has a recap of the fight over Thailand's proposed new motio....


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From Books to Celluloid at the 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 373 , 18:36:01   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film   World Film Festival of Bangkok  
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The World Film Festival of Bangkok opens a new program this year, From Books to Celluloid, spotlighting films that are inspired by or adapted from novels and poetry.Dusit Silakong, deputy director of the festival, says literary adaptations are rare in the Thai film industry, where most directors are also screenwriters and only make films of their own works.“It’s quite common in Western films that are....


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Thursday , October 11 , 2007
Bangkok cinema scene special: Helvetica
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 500 , 19:50:17   | Category : cinema scene   World Film Festival of Bangkok  
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Not a historical epic about ancient Switzerland, Helvetica is a new documentary film about the ubiquitous typeface that can be spotted just about everywhere. For example, some common brands in Thailand, Toyota and Nestlé, just to name a couple, use the Helvetica font for their brandnames.Helvetica is being used for this blog posting, when normally I would just use the default font, Georgia.The....


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Bangkok cinema scene - October 11-17
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 490 , 02:12:11   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film  
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To commemorate His Majesty the King’s 80th birthday, the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture of the Ministry of Culture will present free screenings of nine short films by Thai directors from Friday until Wednesday at Paragon Cineplex and at Major Cineplex Pinklao.The program comprises:Luminous Sound by Pen-Ek RatanaruengMeteorites by Apichatpong WeerasethakulNorasingha by Wisit SasanatiengMy Firs....


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Review: Body
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 478 , 01:18:15   | Category : Thai film   film reviews  
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Directed Paween PurijitpanyaStarring Arak Amornsupasiri, Ornjira Lamwilai, Kritteera Inpornwijit, Patharawarin TimkulWide release in Thailand cinemas on October 4, 2007On the surface, GTH studio’s new horror film, Body, looks beautiful. There are some convincing computer-graphic effects and the performances are excellent. The story, which has some parallels to a recent Thai true-crime case, is delibe....


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Monday , October 8 , 2007
Missed Mitr
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 426 , 18:04:30   | Category : Thai film  
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Mitr Chaibancha was Thailand's reigning action film hero from the late 1950s until he died in 1970, in a fall from a rope ladder on a helicopter, while filming a stunt for the film, Insee Tong.He was in hundreds of film, though I've only seen a couple - Insee Tong, which is on DVD with English subs (miraculously), available in local DVD shops, and 1965's Ngern Ngern Ngern, which the Thai Film Foundat....


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