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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Friday , February 29 , 2008
Filipino films in Chiang Mai
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 331 , 13:11:02   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Festivals and awards  
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Filipino films will be featured in a series at the Alliance Francaise in Chiang Mai from Monday (March 3) to March 7. Two film sessions will be presented each day, at 5pm and 8 pm. All the films are subtitled in English. Each session will feature one short film and a feature. A 30-baht contribution is requested for each session.Monday, March 3 -- New Pinoy Cinema5pmMansyon by Joel Ruiz (Cinemalaya 20....


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Thai films at the Hong Kong film fest
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 287 , 12:34:08   | Category : Thai film   Festivals and awards  
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Tickets for the Hong Kong International Film Festival are on sale, and the first screenings of Ploy, The Love of Siam and Opapatika, are among those already marked "full house".There are still seats for both screenings of the loopy romantic drama Handle Me With Care, but I think Hong Kongers might flock to see this sweet tale of a three armed man from Lampang and a large-breasted woman -- e....


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Thursday , February 28 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: February 28-March 5, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 375 , 02:32:39   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   horror  
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For no reason that I can see, other than sheer coincidence, this week's opening films are dominated by horror and suspense, from both Hollywood and Thailand.The one exception is Once, an Irish romantic musical, which won the best song award at this year's Oscars.Directed by John Carney, a member of the Irish folk-rock group The Frames, Once stars Frames frontman Glen Hansard as a Dublin busker who fa....


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Review: The 8th Day
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 314 , 02:19:55   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   film reviews   horror  
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Directed by Chodchai YoadsaraneeWritten by Warisara PuthpavanaStarring Watsana Chalakorn, Thanarate Siriwattanagul, Jennie OprasertAn ANA Film Network release produced by Piya Khuntipakorn, Somchai Leenanruk, Ladda SantriratnukulReleased in Thailand cinemas on February 28, 2008Though you might perceive some multi-hued nuances in your life, the rest of the world sees things in black and white, which i....


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Monday , February 25 , 2008
A strong, satisfying year for the Oscars
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 319 , 22:00:53   | Category : culture   Festivals and awards  
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Some heavy films dominated the 80th Academy Awards, making for one of the strongest years in Oscar history, and one that left me with the most satisfied feeling I've had in years after hearing the Oscar results.The Coen Brothers, who have directed some of my favorite films, were given the honor of Best Director, and their film, No Country for Old Men, was named Best Picture. They also won the award f....


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Friday , February 22 , 2008
Goodbye, CD Warehouse
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 574 , 16:37:39   | Category : culture   music   dvd  
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The saddest sight I've seen in a long time was last weekend when I passed through The Emporium shopping center and saw CD Warehouse. I had heard the chain was closing in Thailand, but I wasn't prepared for what I saw - a store that is virtually empty shelves. Any stock of value has either been shipped out or scavenged clean in the chain's close-out sale at its one remaining location.There was no musi....


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Thursday , February 21 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: February 21-27, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 313 , 00:39:38   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film  
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Quite possibly the best film yet by the acclaimed brother filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men is a profound, violent reverie on the old American west, set in 1980 west Texas.Tommy Lee Jones stars as a weary, retiring sheriff, faced with the bloodiest case of his career. He's not so much as solving the case, but helplessly following the blood trail of a killer (Javiar Bardem) so rel....


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Review: Handle Me With Care (Kod)
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 495 , 00:08:58   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film   film reviews  
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Written and directed by Kongdej JaturanrasameeStarring Kiatkamol Latha, Supaksorn ChaimongkolReleased in Thailand cinemas on February 21, 2008What is the sound of three hands clapping? Well, it might sound a little discordant. It might sound a little like Handle Me With Care.The story of a three-armed man and his relationship with a large-breasted woman, Handle Me With Care starts off swinging all th....


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Tuesday , February 19 , 2008
Review: No Country for Old Men
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 328 , 23:00:07   | Category : culture   cinema scene   film reviews  
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The Coen Brothers are back. After a couple of missteps with the uneven, oftentimes flat remake of The Ladykillers, and the under-appreciated romantic satire Intolerable Cruelty, Joel and Ethan Coen offer up a bleak, unforgiving contemporary American western with No Country for Old Men, which is based on a Cormac McCarthy novel.This is the Coen Brothers at their best, and their most bone-dry film yet.....


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NGOs to new government: Don't approve film censorship law
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 409 , 18:56:35   | Category : culture   Thai film   Censorship and ratings  
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It was only a small item on the bottom line of a graphic at the bottom of Page 2 of the Sunday Nation, but it caught my attention. Among the three "don'ts" issued for the new government by the Non-governmental Organization Coordinating Committee on Development: Don't approve the new film censorship law.The call to reverse the film censorship measure is lumped into the NGOs' "don'ts&quo....


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