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Thursday , November 5 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 5-11, 2009
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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 , October 29 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: My Dear Asean
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 ![]() Films from Burma, Cambodia, East Timor and Laos -- countries not often or ever heard from when it comes to the region's cinema -- will be featured alongside dramas and documentaries from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in "My Dear ASEAN", a film series put on by the Southeast Asian Studies program at Thammasat University in Bangkok.The Thai entry will be Aditya Assarat'....
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 29-November 4, 2009
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 ![]() Three Thai films are opening this week in Bangkok cinemas, and none of them are from the major studios.Probably the most promising of the three is the purely indie feature, Seng Ped (à«ç§à»ç´, Boring Love, by writer-director Sarawut Intaraprom. He previously did the indie animated feature Boyfriend, which had a limited run in Bangkok in 2007.Boyfriend was developed from a webcomic that ran on the pop....
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Thursday , October 22 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 22-28, 2009
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 Chuean (Slice)Here's something a bit different from the industry's usual crop of teen-oriented ghost thrillers, romantic dramas and country comedies -- it's a Thai crime thriller.A convicted hitman named Tai ("Pe" Arak Amornsupasiri) is sprung from prison for 15 days to help police round up a serial killer. To keep Tai in line, one of the cops, played with apparent relish and a shock of ble....
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Thursday , October 15 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 15-21, 2009
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 Rot Fai Faa ... Maa Haa Na Ter (Bangkok Traffic Love Story)In the 10 years since Bangkok's skytrain has become a landmark of the city, it's been featured in several films -- whizzing by as two guys make love on a rooftop in Bangkok Love Story, or being a mode of transport rated just slightly better than a crowded city bus for a rash-prone young woman in Citizen Dog -- are just a couple that come to m....
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Thursday , October 8 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 8-14, 2009
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 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansWerner Herzog harnesses the craziness of Nicolas Cage for this crime thriller set in post-Katrina New Orleans. In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Cage plays a cop who's hooked on prescription drugs after an injury, and he soon goes off the rails, smoking crack, fornicating in public and doing all sorts of other insane things and reeling off lines like....
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Wednesday , October 7 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Bollywood Film Festival
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 Back in the 1970s, Bollywood films regularly played in Bangkok cinemas, but faded away as Hollywood became ever more dominant.But Bollywood films have been making a comeback in recent years, thanks to the efforts of Bollywood Thai Entertainment, which imports Hindi-language features for limited screenings in Bangkok cinemas on the same weekend they are opening in India.The movies have been a hit with....
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Friday , October 2 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 1-7, 2009
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 Broken EmbracesThe latest collaboration between director Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz is a neo-noir drama marked by an epic, complicated and twisting four-way romance.From Variety:Harry Caine (Lluis Homar, “Bad Education”) is a blind screenwriter and former director whose real name, which he abandoned after losing his sight in a car crash, is Mateo Blanco. News arrives of the death of corrupt st....
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Friday , September 25 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Bangkok International Animation Festival 2009
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 ![]() Pulled out of the hammerspace of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology just three weeks ago when the budget was approved, the inaugural Bangkok International Animation Festival unspools in full today, playing around 40 features and shorts alongside the bigger Bangkok International Film Festival.The two festivals share schedules and venues, and combine for some special events.The a....
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Wednesday , September 23 , 2009
Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Bangkok International Film Festival 2009 introduction
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 ![]() Undaunted by a bribery scandal, the Bangkok International Film Festival gets under way tomorrow with an invitation-only VIP gala opening of Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.It's an odd choice, considering the Hollywood producers now convicted of bribing the festival's former president produced Herzog's previous film, 2007's Rescue Dawn, which was actually made in Thailand.But ....
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