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Friday , September 25 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Bangkok International Animation Festival 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 378 , 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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Friday , July 10 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 9-15, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 860 , 15:42:12 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film film reviews Festivals and awards

Banlieue 13 - UltimatumBack in 2004, French action stars Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle burst onto the scene with Banlieue 13 (District 13), making the concrete and asphalt of their rough-and-tumble Paris neighborhood their trapeze for a brand of urban acrobatics that's known as parkour.It looked like they'd been influenced by Tony Jaa's alley-running, barbwire-hoop-jumping antics in 2003's Ong-Bak ....

Banlieue 13 - UltimatumBack in 2004, French action stars Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle burst onto the scene with Banlieue 13 (District 13), making the concrete and asphalt of their rough-and-tumble Paris neighborhood their trapeze for a brand of urban acrobatics that's known as parkour.It looked like they'd been influenced by Tony Jaa's alley-running, barbwire-hoop-jumping antics in 2003's Ong-Bak ....

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Wednesday , July 1 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 1-8, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 1309 , 22:27:30 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film film reviews

Nang Mai (Nymph)The more I think about Nymph, the more I like it. And I'm glad that I liked it after early reviews from the Cannes Film Festival tended to be pretty negative.After seeing it, I was sniffing my clothes to see if they smelled like decomposing leaves. I turned up the bottom of my shoe and expected to find mud. It's like going on a hike in the woods.It's the story of a young couple (Wan....

Nang Mai (Nymph)The more I think about Nymph, the more I like it. And I'm glad that I liked it after early reviews from the Cannes Film Festival tended to be pretty negative.After seeing it, I was sniffing my clothes to see if they smelled like decomposing leaves. I turned up the bottom of my shoe and expected to find mud. It's like going on a hike in the woods.It's the story of a young couple (Wan....

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Thursday , June 25 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 25-June 30, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 857 , 18:40:27 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film film reviews Festivals and awards

Largo WinchThe opening film of the French Film Festival has opened for a limited general release with daily showtimes at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld.Based on a Belgian comic series, by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, Largo Winch is about a young adventurous man, who's the globetrotting head of a global business empire. Tomer Sisley stars.The action breezily skips around, from Brazil to Croati....

Largo WinchThe opening film of the French Film Festival has opened for a limited general release with daily showtimes at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld.Based on a Belgian comic series, by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, Largo Winch is about a young adventurous man, who's the globetrotting head of a global business empire. Tomer Sisley stars.The action breezily skips around, from Brazil to Croati....

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Thursday , June 18 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 18-24, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 829 , 16:16:54 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film film reviews Festivals and awards

Departures (Okuribito)Winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Departures (Okuribito) is the story of a man who finds a new calling in what he euphemistically calls the "ceremonial occasions industry”.Masahiro Motoki stars as Daigo, a cellist who loses his job after his orchestra shuts down. He decides to sell his cello and move back to his hometown with his wife (Ryok....

Departures (Okuribito)Winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Departures (Okuribito) is the story of a man who finds a new calling in what he euphemistically calls the "ceremonial occasions industry”.Masahiro Motoki stars as Daigo, a cellist who loses his job after his orchestra shuts down. He decides to sell his cello and move back to his hometown with his wife (Ryok....

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Thursday , May 21 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 21-27, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 759 , 19:10:18 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film film reviews horror

Krasue fad PopThe comedy Krasue fad Pop (Krasue vs. Pop) pits two of Thailand's female ghosts in a battle.Krasue is Southeast Asia's gut-munching flying vampiric head that trails its entrails around. She's been depicted in lots of films, like 1981's Mystics in Bali, 2002's Krasue, Yuthlert Sippapak's Krasue Valentine and that recent award-winning Sylvania light bulb commercial. Pop is perhaps less ....

Krasue fad PopThe comedy Krasue fad Pop (Krasue vs. Pop) pits two of Thailand's female ghosts in a battle.Krasue is Southeast Asia's gut-munching flying vampiric head that trails its entrails around. She's been depicted in lots of films, like 1981's Mystics in Bali, 2002's Krasue, Yuthlert Sippapak's Krasue Valentine and that recent award-winning Sylvania light bulb commercial. Pop is perhaps less ....

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Thursday , February 26 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 26-March 4, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 763 , 22:10:12 | Category : culture cinema scene film reviews Festivals and awards

Milk I think it was a bit of an upset that Sean Penn won the Oscar for best actor, defeating Mickey Rourke who had collected trophies for The Wrestler at every other awards bash this season.But from the previews, Penn is quite strong in Milk. He plays Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in the US. Milk won election as a member of the San Francisco Board of Super....

Milk I think it was a bit of an upset that Sean Penn won the Oscar for best actor, defeating Mickey Rourke who had collected trophies for The Wrestler at every other awards bash this season.But from the previews, Penn is quite strong in Milk. He plays Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in the US. Milk won election as a member of the San Francisco Board of Super....

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Thursday , January 29 , 2009

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 29-February 4, 2009

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 945 , 20:36:02 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film film reviews

Fireball (Tarchon)In Fireball, Preeti Barameeanan -- Bank from the rock band Clash -- stars as guy who gets out of prison and finds his twin brother is in coma. Determined to find out why, he joins a team that take part in an underworld bloodsport that combines no-fouls-called basketball with Muay Thai.Directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan, who previously helmed Opapatika and Fake, Fireball is the first pr....

Fireball (Tarchon)In Fireball, Preeti Barameeanan -- Bank from the rock band Clash -- stars as guy who gets out of prison and finds his twin brother is in coma. Determined to find out why, he joins a team that take part in an underworld bloodsport that combines no-fouls-called basketball with Muay Thai.Directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan, who previously helmed Opapatika and Fake, Fireball is the first pr....

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Thursday , January 22 , 2009

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

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 809 , 18:54:12 | Category : culture cinema scene Thai film film reviews

Red Cliff 2Pigeons fly as director John Woo quickly recaps part one of his ambitious historical battle epic, and then plunges headlong into the fight for Red Cliff Part 2.Based on the "Three Kingdoms" stories, watch as the overwhelming army of the warlord Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) is challenged and outmanuevered by his plucky, vastly outnumbered opponents.Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Takeshi Kanesh....

Red Cliff 2Pigeons fly as director John Woo quickly recaps part one of his ambitious historical battle epic, and then plunges headlong into the fight for Red Cliff Part 2.Based on the "Three Kingdoms" stories, watch as the overwhelming army of the warlord Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) is challenged and outmanuevered by his plucky, vastly outnumbered opponents.Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Takeshi Kanesh....

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Thursday , October 23 , 2008

Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 23-29, 2008

Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 1211 , 10:38:52 | Category : cinema scene Thai film film reviews World Film Festival of Bangkok

Review: The Midnight Meat TrainUnceremoniously dumped into discount cinemas by studio Lionsgate on its release in the US, Midnight Meat Train has nonetheless survived and gained notice among genre fans as one of the best, most stylish horror movies of the year.Having seen it on Tuesday night, I can see why studio execs might have been wary of springing this subversive, downright creepy movie on the m....

Review: The Midnight Meat TrainUnceremoniously dumped into discount cinemas by studio Lionsgate on its release in the US, Midnight Meat Train has nonetheless survived and gained notice among genre fans as one of the best, most stylish horror movies of the year.Having seen it on Tuesday night, I can see why studio execs might have been wary of springing this subversive, downright creepy movie on the m....

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