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Thursday , March 6 , 2008

Koh Phangan Film Festival on April 5-6

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 498 , 22:20:06 | Category : culture Festivals and awards

Despite that there is no cinema on Koh Phangan, the island that is infamous for its Full Moon Party will hold its first film festival on April 5 and 6 at Holiday Beach Resort.Organizers of the Phangan Film Festival have put together a 10-film line-up on the theme of "Nature and Spirituality", featuring documentaries and short films about the environment and meta-physical subjects.Asian prem....

Despite that there is no cinema on Koh Phangan, the island that is infamous for its Full Moon Party will hold its first film festival on April 5 and 6 at Holiday Beach Resort.Organizers of the Phangan Film Festival have put together a 10-film line-up on the theme of "Nature and Spirituality", featuring documentaries and short films about the environment and meta-physical subjects.Asian prem....

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More 'Love' from Bangkok Critics

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 460 , 21:25:54 | Category : culture Thai film Festivals and awards

The Love of Siam took six out of 11 awards while Muay Thai Chaiya grabbed three from the Bangkok Critics Assembly. The ceremony was held on Wednesday at the Miracle Grand Hotel in Bangkok.Love of Siam continued its dominance of Thailand's film awards, taking the Critics' top two prizes for Best Picture and Best Director. Writer-director Chukiat Sakweerakul also won for best Best Screenplay.“I hope th....

The Love of Siam took six out of 11 awards while Muay Thai Chaiya grabbed three from the Bangkok Critics Assembly. The ceremony was held on Wednesday at the Miracle Grand Hotel in Bangkok.Love of Siam continued its dominance of Thailand's film awards, taking the Critics' top two prizes for Best Picture and Best Director. Writer-director Chukiat Sakweerakul also won for best Best Screenplay.“I hope th....

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Review: Salad Ta Diaw Kab Dek 200 Ta

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 324 , 18:19:43 | Category : cinema scene Thai film film reviews

You can’t take just any actor, throw a pirate costume on him, stick him on a sailing ship and expect him to be like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.Yet that’s what director Thanit Jitnukul thought when he made the kid-friendly seafaring adventure Salad Ta Diaw Kab Dek 200 Ta. (There's no English title that I know of.)Actor Saranyu Wongkrachang may have a three-corner hat and an eyepatch, but ....

You can’t take just any actor, throw a pirate costume on him, stick him on a sailing ship and expect him to be like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.Yet that’s what director Thanit Jitnukul thought when he made the kid-friendly seafaring adventure Salad Ta Diaw Kab Dek 200 Ta. (There's no English title that I know of.)Actor Saranyu Wongkrachang may have a three-corner hat and an eyepatch, but ....

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Wednesday , March 5 , 2008

Bangkok Cinema Scene - March 6-12, 2008

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 396 , 23:31:12 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film

Nominated for best animated feature film at this year's Oscars, as well as the French submission for best foreign language film (though not nominated), Persepolis finally opens this week in limited release in Bangkok.This is the autobiographical film by Marjane Satrapi, adapted from her illustrated books about her life growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Controversially, the film has be....

Nominated for best animated feature film at this year's Oscars, as well as the French submission for best foreign language film (though not nominated), Persepolis finally opens this week in limited release in Bangkok.This is the autobiographical film by Marjane Satrapi, adapted from her illustrated books about her life growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Controversially, the film has be....

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Monday , March 3 , 2008

Bangkok International Film Festival listed on TATs July calendar

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 398 , 23:50:46 | Category : culture Festivals and awards

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....

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

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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....

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 : 286 , 21:54:51 | Category : culture cinema scene film reviews

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....

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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