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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Friday , May 30 , 2008
New film-censorship law takes effect on Monday
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 366 , 18:30:11   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   Censorship and ratings  
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Here's a story from today's Daily Xpress, which for some reason I cannot find on the paper's website:Film censorshipNew law out soonUnder-13s to be banned from violent movies; producers of ‘national security threats’ jailed for a yearBy Pakamard JaichalardDaily XpressAs of next month the new Film and Video Act metes out jail time and Bt1-million fines for unlicensed screening, distribution and cinema....


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Wednesday , May 28 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: May 29-June 4, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 231 , 21:57:59   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film   politics  
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Two years since the last Narnia film, only a year has passed for the four Pevensie children, who suddenly find themselves back in Narnia where they discover that more than 1,300 years have passed in Narnian time."You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember," intones the voiceover for the trailer for The Chroncles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.During their absence, Narnia has been ....


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Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 168 , 00:52:52   | Category : film reviews  
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When I last left Indiana Jones, he was standing on the steps of some government building, fuming because the bureaucrats have stonewalled him on what they plan to do with the Lost Ark he had just snatched out of the hands of the Nazis. Indy was going for a drink with his on-again girlfriend, Marion Ravenwood.Two other movies have come out since Raiders of the Lost Ark, but I don't remember much of th....


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Monday , May 19 , 2008
Review: Memory
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 254 , 16:55:50   | Category : Thai film   horror  
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Directed by Torpong TunkamhangStarring Mai Charoenpura, Ananda Mathew EveringhamReleased in Thailand cinemas on May 15, 2008Rating: 3/5Krit (Ananda Everingham) is a psychiatrist working with the criminally insane in a Chiang Mai hospital. But perhaps he should see a shrink himself. Quiet and brooding, he stops off at a bar for a stiff one before dragging himself back to his apartment, late at night. ....


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Wednesday , May 14 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: May 15-21, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 226 , 20:34:09   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film  
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One of the best bets for cinema viewing this week is Juno, the winner of this year’s Oscar for best original screenplay (penned by former stripper Diablo Cody). It was also a nominee for best picture and best director.Juno is story of a too-cool-for-school teenage girl, effervescently portrayed by Oscar-nominee Ellen Page, who is impregnated by her indecisive boyfriend (Michael Cera). After informing....


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Review: Wonderful Town
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 215 , 17:34:01   | Category : Thai film   film reviews  
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Written and directed by Aditya AssaratStarring Supphasit Kansen, Anchalee Saisoontorn, Dul YaambunyingLimited release in Thailand on May 15, 2008 as the first film in the Directors' Screen series at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld.Waves lap up on a deserted beach, the sound of the surf booms in high fidelity. The effect is mesmerizing, sleep-inducing even. An effort must be made to not drift off, bec....


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Tuesday , May 13 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Directors Screen series
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 283 , 18:52:37   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   politics  
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A collective of independent Thai filmmakers have joined with SF World Cinema at CentralWorld to bring alternative films to the multiplex masses with the Director's Screen series.It opens on Thursday with Wonderful Town, a romantic drama set in post-tsunami Phuket Province by Aditya Assarat. It's been a favourite on the film-festival circuit since winning the New Currents prize at last year's Pusan In....


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Monday , May 12 , 2008
Reviews: The Counterfeiters, Speed Racer
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 226 , 22:17:52   | Category : film reviews  
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The Counterfeiters, winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (the first from Austria) is a dramatized account of Operation Bernhard, in which the Nazis forced a team of Jewish forgers, printers, bankers and other artisans to make counterfeit British bank notes and US dollars, with the aim of shattering the the economies of the Allies.The protagonist is master counterfeiter S....


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Friday , May 9 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: The Counterfeiters
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 220 , 20:55:04   | Category : cinema scene  
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An additional movie slipped past me and didn't get noted in my earlier roundup of new releases this week. It's The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) the first Austrian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.The story is set in World War II era Germany and involves a scheme by the Nazis to bankrupt England by flooding the country with fake banknotes. A master forger, interred at....


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Wednesday , May 7 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene - May 8-14, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 251 , 22:51:29   | Category : cinema scene  
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With Iron Man grabbing fistfuls of dollars and rocketing to No. 1 in the US last week, Hollywood's summer-movie onslaught continues with Speed Racer, a big-screen adaptation of the cult-classic Japanese cartoon series.Much anticipated, this is the first big project directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski since they completed their Matrix Trilogy. From the look of the trailers, their Speed Racer is an....


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