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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Thursday , November 5 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 5-11, 2009
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 92 , 11:18:32   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film   World Film Festival of Bangkok   Censorship and ratings  
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Suay .... Samurai (Vanquisher)Vanquisher, also known as Suay ... Samurai (ÊÇ«ÒÁÙäÃ, literally "beautiful samurai"), is a long-in-the-works action thriller by veteran director Manop Udomdej.At one time it was to feature "Amy" Chotiros Suriwong, but the young actress was kicked off the project by executive producer "Sia Jiang" Somsak Techaratanprasert after Amy wore a rev....


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Thursday , September 10 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 10-16, 2009
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 575 , 12:10:52   | Category : culture   Thai film   Censorship and ratings   Festivals and awards  
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Haa Phrang (Phobia 2)Ranging from creepily moralistic to downright hiliarious, five more short and slick horror stories are offered by local studio GTH in Haa Phrang (Phobia 2). The result is a more cohesive and even-toned effort than the first set of short thrillers in last year's hit, See Phrang (4bia).Returning directors from the first "crossroads" are Paween Purijitpanya (Body #19) and ....


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Thursday , September 3 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 3-9, 2009
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 610 , 11:29:43   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   Censorship and ratings   Festivals and awards  
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Land of the LostThere was a great hue and cry from online film critics earlier this year when this Will Ferrell comedy was released that it had "raped childhood memories".But I don't know. The original 1970s TV series, considered by many to be a cult classic because of its low-budget aesthetics, gave me nightmares, and just imagining the menacing hissing sound of the Sleestack lizard villai....


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Thursday , August 27 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 27-September 2, 2009
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 1270 , 09:58:03   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   World Film Festival of Bangkok   Censorship and ratings   Festivals and awards  
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Ponyo on the Cliff by the SeaWith Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Hayao Miyazaki offers another of his fanciful animated environmental parables with this story of a strange-looking goldfish who wishes she were a human girl.Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" the tiny fish-girl Ponyo rides a jellyfish and meets a five-year-old boy, Sosuke, who vows to protect her, but P....


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Thursday , August 20 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 20-26, 2009
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 544 , 11:26:02   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   Censorship and ratings   Festivals and awards  
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Buppah Rahtree 3.2: Rahtree's RevengeYuthlert Sippapak closely follows up his third Buppah Rahtree film, released back in April, with another incremental chapter in the horror-comedy franchise.With April's Buppah Rahtree 3.1: Rahtree Reborn being a reboot of the series, a new character was introduced -- a little demon ghost girl who inhabits the spirit of Buppah Rahtree. It's a ghost inhabiting a gho....


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Censorship Watch: Orphan
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 907 , 02:07:34   | Category : Censorship and ratings   politics   Censorship Watch  
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Released for a sneak-preview run on August 14, just one week before Thailand's ratings system was put into effect, the Hollywood horror thriller Orphan has been chopped by censors."There are two glaringly obvious censorship cuts in this film as shown here in Chiang Mai, clear for all to see – one having to do with sex, one having to do with violence," writes Thomas Olsen, an avid movie-goer....


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Wednesday , August 12 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Citizen Juling in limited release
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 644 , 03:32:36   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   Censorship and ratings   politics  
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As Thailand celebrates Mother's Day (and Her Majesty the Queen's birthday) today, what's perhaps the most heartfelt of movies about motherhood opens in a limited release in Bangkok.Citizen Juling is about a daughter who was an artist and a schoolteacher. She was severely beaten by a mob in Narathiwat province in southern Thailand.In May 2006, as teacher Juling Pongkunmul was laid up in a hospital in ....


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Thursday , July 30 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 30-August 5, 2009
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 585 , 20:39:55   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Thai film   Censorship and ratings  
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BrunoThe controversial satirist Sacha Baron Cohen dons another one of the personas from his TV series, "Da Ali G Show". In Bruno, he's the flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion TV reporter. The formula is much the same as Baron Cohen's previous feature, Borat, with Bruno heading to the United States to try and pull a fast one on anyone who has not yet caught on to his schtick.With sadomasochist....


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Tuesday , April 21 , 2009
Censorship Watch: Zack and Miri [Cant] Make a Porno, Crank: High Voltage short-circuited
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 2936 , 19:03:20   | Category : culture   cinema scene   Censorship and ratings   Censorship Watch  
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Apparently for its concept alone, the raunchy sex comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno has been banned in Thailand.Local distributor M Pictures attempted to release American director Kevin Smith's film on March 12 in a limited run at Paragon Cineplex, but the movie was  pulled over concerns by censors.The distributor then made an appeal to the National Film Board, which today announced it has firmly s....


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Thursday , April 2 , 2009
Censorship Watch: Burn After Reading DVD
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 880 , 21:19:06   | Category : culture   Thai film   Censorship and ratings   dvd   Censorship Watch  
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For their followup to the acclaimed western No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen went to Washington, DC, for Burn After Reading, a black comedy about two screwball gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) who stumble on a disc full of secrets from a fired CIA agent named Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich). The bumbling pair then try their hands at blackmail.While Burn After Reading is satire....


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