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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Wednesday , February 13 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene - February 14-20, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 586 , 22:58:19   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   politics  
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Director Mike Nichols (Catch-22, Primary Colors) and writer Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) team up on Charlie Wilson's War, offering a 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.By conspiring to s....


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Tuesday , February 12 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: More films at the Fringe
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 379 , 21:31:58   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   Festivals and awards  
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Part 2 of the Sea the SEA program of short films and features from Southeast Asia and Taiwan unspools this Saturday and Sunday, the closing weekend for the Bangkok Fringe Festival 2008.This weekend's series features packages of recent shorts from Malaysia and Taiwan, and features from the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand.Among the highlights is Birth of the Seanama, a rare, acclaimed feature by Tha....


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Monday , February 11 , 2008
Reviews: CJ7, Atonement
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 407 , 18:22:15   | Category : culture   film reviews  
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CJ7 and Atonement were released in Thailand cinemas last week, which along with the new Thai martial arts drama, Chocolate, were either highly acclaimed or highly anticipated.Aside from the gritty Chocolate, which has the same flavor of dangerous stunt action as Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong, what I really wanted see was CJ7, the new comedy by Stephen Chow. I loved his Shaolin Soccer and especially Kung ....


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