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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Monday , March 3 , 2008
Bangkok International Film Festival listed on TATs July calendar
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 370 , 23:50:46   | Category : culture   Festivals and awards  
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The 2008 Bangkok International Film Festival is listed on the festivals calendar for July by the Tourism Authority of Thailand.Here is what the TAT website says:Once again, the Royal Thai Government and the Tourism Authority of Thailand are delighted to welcome film-makers from all over the world and international performing artists, especially from Hollywood. At the Bangkok International Film Festiv....


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Review - L: Change the WorLd
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 338 , 22:56:05   | Category : culture   film reviews  
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My first foray into the Death Note franchise, L: Change the World, is perhaps not the best introduction to this strange, wildly popular bit of Japanese pop culture, which started as a manga series, spawned an anime series and two live-action films.The first two films, Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name, played in Bangkok in recent years, but for some reason I failed to get excited about them, d....


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Review: There Will Be Blood
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 255 , 21:54:51   | Category : culture   cinema scene   film reviews  
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Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named JedPoor mountaineer barely kept his family fedThen one day he was shooting for some food,And up through the ground come a bubbling crude(Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea)Hailed as a bold, new direction for Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood reminded me a lot of John Sayles' Matewan, which had similar themes of resource extraction and religion (Say....


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