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Cannes, mon amour
23/05/2012 : Love and other nightmares filled the first half of the 65th Cannes Film Festival. There's post-Revolution love from Egypt, and the love that finds its final destiny, as love should, in death. There are the usual sidekicks of love, such as loneliness and the desire to be recognised, in the heart and in the flesh, in one's own territory and in others. It's both helpful and futile to try to find a common theme in the competition titles at the most frenzied and influential movie festival on Earth, but please allow me to indulge in the activity as a cure to the unusually wet weather that has rendered the mood rather gloomy in this war zone of film criticism.
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Movie month
23/05/2012 : Here's the schedule for "Movie Talk", a screening of films selected by Songyote Waeohongsa, for May and June. The films will be shown every Thurs starting 5pm at the Rewat Buddhinan activity room, Thammasat University's Pridi Banomyong Library, Tha Phra Chan campus. Free admission.
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SPECIAL REPORT FROM CANNES
Cannes Day 5: Love and other nightmares
21/05/2012 : Cannes, May 20
SPECIAL REPORT FROM CANNES
Cannes Report Day 2
18/05/2012 : Cannes
May 17 What I regret most in Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone", screening in Cannes Competition on Thursday, is the heartbreakingly brief appearance of the killer whales.
Bin in Indian film shoot
21/05/2012 : After shooting two children films in the Northeast, Bin Banluerit has set his sights higher for his next venture. The director is now shooting Rupu Rupee (a pun on the Indian currency) in India, and his production has generated excitement and attention of the local media, with at least one Hindi-language newspaper giving it prominent coverage.
SPECIAL REPORT FROM CANNES
Cannes Report Day 1
17/05/2012 : Moonrise sonata and the Tahrir battle
SPECIAL REPORT FROM CANNES
Cannes Day 4
20/05/2012 : Hysterical nuns and "Ashes"
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An exploration of erotica
18/05/2012 : Sex as a loveless addiction, a compulsion that brings no pleasure or happiness, is no stranger to us here in Bangkok, where sex bars, bathhouses and massage parlours cater nightly to regulars who can't stay away. Recently, after I screened this new Blu-ray edition of Shame, Steve McQueen's wrenching portrait of a sex addict, for a group of friends, one of them wondered aloud what would have happened to its hero, Brandon Sullivan, if he had made his way to Soi Cowboy. It is a gruesome thought.
Moonrise at Cannes
18/05/2012 : Pre-teen love and rainbow eccentricity opened the 65th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom served up an unusually amusing, toybox-like fantasy as a curtain raiser to the 12-day festival known for its roll-call of prestigious titles and pensive arthouse fares. But actually, Anderson's film about two 12-year-olds who fall in love and elope captures the dual modality that Cannes has always juggled with masterful trickery: an auteur movie by a brand-name filmmaker, and a dash of Hollywood magnetics and red carpet-worthy cast. This year we'll especially see that a lot more in the next 10 days.
A chance to admire Swedish films
17/05/2012 : Premiering last Tuesday, the Swedish Film Festival is a great treat for Bangkok's movie connoisseurs at SFX Cinema of the Emporium shopping complex.
Cannes' line-up promises a big year
16/05/2012 : As is tradition, it will be helter-skelter in Cannes. The archangels will descend on the red carpet while the critics, all few thousand of them, will practice the old sport of vulturism, eyeing the wrecks and picking up the carcasses, when the the 65th Cannes Film Festival begins tonight (a week later than usual to allow the dust of the French presidential election to settle). There are 22 films in Cannes' Competition _ the most coveted contest in the world, sort of _ and most of them are latest works by brand-name directors who will, like futuristic priests, lead us to a prayer at Our Church of Cinema, godly and satanic. To many, the festival is also an annual rite of self-flagellation. Better bring your own whips.
Temple fair in the clouds
16/05/2012 : Prayers in Paragon Hall. New iPad apps on meditation centres. A haunted house in which earthly desires stalk you like inexorable ghosts. A "dharma boy band" of singers interpreting their tunes through the spiritual looking glass. Then monks as film programmers picking movies that discuss virtues and vices in diverse voices. In short, Buddhism in a new setting: Buddhism in a mall.
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