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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Friday , March 14 , 2008
Apichatpong exhausted, prepares censored version of Syndromes for Thai release
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 404 , 15:53:14   | Category : culture   Thai film   Censorship and ratings  
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Filmmaker Magazine has the latest in the saga of Syndromes and a Century, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest feature film, which was censored and banned in Thailand after it had been screened to universal acclaim at film festivals and commercial runs around the world.The film was originally set to be released nearly a year ago in a limited run in Bangkok, but the screenings were canceled by the direc....


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Thursday , March 13 , 2008
Review: Rambo 4
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 415 , 16:45:08   | Category : culture   cinema scene   film reviews  
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Twenty years since the last Rambo film, not much has changed with the newest installment, Rambo 4. The hero, Sylvester Stallone's Vietnam War veteran John Rambo, is still embittered and cynically stoical. And he still wants to be left alone.Where better than to live out a life of isolation than Thailand? It's along the Thai-Burmese border on the Salween River where the ex-Special Forces soldier is wo....


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Bangkok Cinema Scene: March 13-19, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 396 , 00:32:50   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Censorship and ratings  
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Sylvester Stallone's unstoppable killing machine John Rambo takes on the Burmese junta as he shoots, hacks and strangles his way through the jungles along the Thai border.The big question is whether this film is censored. It's not in the distributors' or the cinemas' interests to be forthcoming with this information, so I simply don't know. Since the Culture Ministry's pixellation of blood-letting of....


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Tuesday , March 11 , 2008
DVD review: Me ... Myself
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 463 , 20:09:06   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   Censorship and ratings  
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It's funny. It's cute. It's English subtitled. And, it's censored.The DVD of last year's sleeper-hit romantic-comedy Me ... Myself is already hitting the bargain bins in Thailand, a move no doubt hastened by the fact that the DVD is published by Rose Media and Entertainment, the only Thai distributor I know of that self-censors its films.Me ... Myself is the story of a gay transvestite cabaret dancer....


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Ploy, Wonderful Town, Opapatika head to Deauville
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 309 , 20:05:12   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film  
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The Deauville Asian Film Festival runs from March 12 to 16, and it features two Thai films in its main features competition: Aditya Assarat's ubiquitious Wonderful Town (seems like it is playing everywhere but Thailand) and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy (when's the uncensored, English-friendly version coming to DVD?).A third film, the karmic action drama Opapatika, is featured in the Asia Action Competit....


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The many names of Rambo
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 274 , 14:01:45   | Category : culture   cinema scene  
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The fourth film in the Rambo series went through many title changes before it debuted, and is known by various names around the world.In Thailand, it has been advertised as Rambo 4 and as Rambo: To Hell and Back. I think before it opens on Thursday it will be called Rambo 4. Or maybe Rambo: To Hell and Back.In the States it was simply Rambo. In Europe it was more formal, called John Rambo. In Spanish....


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Monday , March 10 , 2008
Review: The Mist
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 303 , 01:28:11   | Category : culture   film reviews  
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I went to eat noodles with my girlfriend after seeing the The Mist, and I was just staring at the bowl of noodles, not knowing what to do next. It took my girlfriend to ask me what was wrong before I snapped out of it.What a depressing movie. So bleak. I can't remember the last time I was just so seriously bummed after seeing a movie, and I watch a lot of bleak, depressing movies.The mist is all arou....


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Saturday , March 8 , 2008
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival set for March 25-30 at Esplanade Cineplex
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 384 , 00:26:11   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   Censorship and ratings   Festivals and awards  
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The 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF 5) will be held March 25 to 30 at Esplanade Cineplex in Bangkok, and several other venues around the city.The festival is a a co-production by Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Kick the Machine, the Thai Film Foundation and Project 304, an independent arts organization.This year's theme is "The more things change …", exploring the cycles - natural,....


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