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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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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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Monday , February 18 , 2008
Censorship Watch: Charlie Wilson's War, American Gangster, Sweeney Todd
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 729 , 23:47:29   | Category : Censorship Watch  
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Censorship Watch is a new effort to track known instances of censorship of films being shown in Thailand's cinemas.If audiences realize that the films are censored, they might think twice about seeing them. Once the cinema chains and film distributors realize they are loosing money, then they will be the ones to call for a change in the way films are treated in Thailand, hold the Ministry of Culture ....


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Review: Charlie Wilson's War
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 270 , 23:34:39   | Category : culture   cinema scene   film reviews   Censorship and ratings  
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Video-game violence and retro, pre-AIDS 1980s sexual antics blend in Charlie Wilson's War, an often hilarious, satiric look back at a true story of how a filandering congressman (Tom Hanks), a Texas socialite (Juliet Roberts) and a downtrodden spy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) were able to mastermind a covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s.Directed by Mike Nichols and written by ....


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Love of Siam, Bangkok Love Story, Muay Thai Chaiya win most Suphanahongsa Awards
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 796 , 17:07:45   | Category : culture   Thai film   Festivals and awards  
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A drama about family dysfunction and gay teen romance, The Love of Siam, won the two top Subhanahongsa Awards on Sunday night.The Best Director award went to Chukiat Sakweerakul, who thanked his parents for teaching him what love was all about. He also thanked the drama's ensemble cast, saying "this award is not for me alone, but for all who acted in the film." Chukiat, 26, had previously d....


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