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Thursday , August 20 , 2009

Censorship Watch: Orphan

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 908 , 02:07:34 | Category : Censorship and ratings politics Censorship Watch

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....

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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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

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....

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

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....

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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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 2-8, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 951 , 16:14:15 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film Censorship and ratings Censorship Watch

Taew Te Teen RabertKnown for his katoey comedies, Poj Arnon offers what could likely be his magnum opus thus far in Taew Te Teen Raberd (แต๋วเตะตีนระเบิด), loosely translated as "gays with exploding feet".Some English-language websites are calling it Sassy Player (not Sassy Players?), but I'm not aware of an official English title. Anyway, if you try to go see it at the cinemas and ask fo....

Taew Te Teen RabertKnown for his katoey comedies, Poj Arnon offers what could likely be his magnum opus thus far in Taew Te Teen Raberd (แต๋วเตะตีนระเบิด), loosely translated as "gays with exploding feet".Some English-language websites are calling it Sassy Player (not Sassy Players?), but I'm not aware of an official English title. Anyway, if you try to go see it at the cinemas and ask fo....

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Sunday , March 8 , 2009

Censorship Watch: Watchmen

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 1012 , 23:05:04 | Category : culture cinema scene Censorship and ratings Censorship Watch

The authorities watched Watchmen before anyone else in Thailand and decided that a cartoon superhero's big blue dong was unfit for audiences to see.So Watchmen is censored for cartoon male superhero nudity as well as violence.In the movie, the character Dr. Manhattan -- a scientist who became a godlike superbeing after a nuclear accident -- walks around in the buff most of the time, I guess because h....

The authorities watched Watchmen before anyone else in Thailand and decided that a cartoon superhero's big blue dong was unfit for audiences to see.So Watchmen is censored for cartoon male superhero nudity as well as violence.In the movie, the character Dr. Manhattan -- a scientist who became a godlike superbeing after a nuclear accident -- walks around in the buff most of the time, I guess because h....

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Wednesday , April 2 , 2008

Syndromes and a Century: Thailand's Edition opens on April 10

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 1149 , 23:42:43 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film Censorship and ratings politics Censorship Watch

With scratched black film-reel leader and silence to replace the parts the censors cut out, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century will be released on April 10 for a limited run at Siam Paragon.This will likely be the only way to see the special Thailand's Edition. The cultural authorities should be proud to have something so exclusive, and they had a hand in it, so congratulations are i....

With scratched black film-reel leader and silence to replace the parts the censors cut out, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century will be released on April 10 for a limited run at Siam Paragon.This will likely be the only way to see the special Thailand's Edition. The cultural authorities should be proud to have something so exclusive, and they had a hand in it, so congratulations are i....

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Monday , February 18 , 2008

Censorship Watch: Charlie Wilson's War, American Gangster, Sweeney Todd

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 1736 , 23:47:29 | Category : Censorship Watch

Censorship Watch is a new effort to track known instances of censorship of films being shown in Thailand's cinemas.If audiences realize that the films are censored, they might think twice about seeing them. Once the cinema chains and film distributors realize they are loosing money, then they will be the ones to call for a change in the way films are treated in Thailand, hold the Ministry of Culture ....

Censorship Watch is a new effort to track known instances of censorship of films being shown in Thailand's cinemas.If audiences realize that the films are censored, they might think twice about seeing them. Once the cinema chains and film distributors realize they are loosing money, then they will be the ones to call for a change in the way films are treated in Thailand, hold the Ministry of Culture ....

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