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Thursday , October 29 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene special: My Dear Asean

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 225 , 21:06:51 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film

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'....

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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Thursday , October 22 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 22-28, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 221 , 10:44:19 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film

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....

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

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 388 , 13:37:02 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film Festivals and awards

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....

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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Wednesday , October 7 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Bollywood Film Festival

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 495 , 22:35:31 | Category : culture cinema scene Festivals and awards

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....

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

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 398 , 03:39:40 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film Festivals and awards

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....

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

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 377 , 23:53:20 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film film reviews Festivals and awards

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....

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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Thursday , September 17 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 17-23, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 480 , 11:16:32 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film Festivals and awards

District 9Now officially open in wide release after a sneak preview run last week, is this year's break-out hit District 9.Shot largely documentary style on a shoestring, 30-year-old first-time director Neill Blomkamp wrung every last drop of goodness from his budget of US$30 million. In Hollywood, that's the kind of money they spend on snacks for the likes of Transformers or GI Joe, or on the sala....

District 9Now officially open in wide release after a sneak preview run last week, is this year's break-out hit District 9.Shot largely documentary style on a shoestring, 30-year-old first-time director Neill Blomkamp wrung every last drop of goodness from his budget of US$30 million. In Hollywood, that's the kind of money they spend on snacks for the likes of Transformers or GI Joe, or on the sala....

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Thursday , September 10 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 10-16, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 576 , 12:10:52 | Category : culture Thai film Censorship and ratings Festivals and awards

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 ....

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

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....

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

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....

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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