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PREVIEWTales from the trees
13/02/2012 : The programme includes a number of Thai and international titles, feature-length and short, that aim to inspire the audience to live green and save the trees.
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Cinema picnic with a historic film
13/02/2012 : A St Valentine's Day film screening cannot be more historic than this. Tomorrow on the lawn of Museum Siam, the French-Thai Cultural Festival, or La Fete, will treat singles and lovers to the Thailand premiere of a restored and coloured version of the 1902 film by Georges Melies,Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon). This colour print of the legendary film had been thought to have lost forever, but in 1993, the Barcelona Film Archive miraculously unearthed it, though in a sorry condition, and one of the most ambitious restoration in film history began.
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Feminine perspectives
10/02/2012 : In her smoky evocation of lost love, vintage romance and bewitching cello music, Madonna, at the helm of W.E., channelled Wong Kar-wai of the early millennium, doing that visual serenade of beautiful, distressing women who're in the mood for love. Wong sculpted melancholia out of gorgeous haze; Madonna's swirl of luxury and grainy jump-cuts merely drift, and then land somewhat in emptiness. Re-telling the story of "the greatest romance of the century" _ the one between Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson _ the Material Girl also gives us a story of a wife who's in the desperate mood for pregnancy. So much so that the effort crosses over from beautiful and tender to obsessive and self-sabotaging.
In Full Bloom
08/02/2012 : It was the stare that always got you. The bold, direct, Cleopatran stare of a woman who knows that she holds the reins simply because she's very comfortable in her own skin. In the '80s, her fame came from posing for sultry, eroticised photos that steamed up the rooms of men, young and old. Now Penpak Sirikul is 51. She has a 30-year-old son. She has no beau at the moment ("I won't hide, I never hide"). But she stares you down and disembowels you with her smouldering, black-widow heat. Look closely, boys: even now, Penpak doesn't do seduction. She is seduction.
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Heeding the call of history
04/02/2012 : It is one of those sensational, semi-stupid questions that a journalist sometimes cannot summon his wit and restraint from asking: Would she, Michelle Yeoh, have made the same decision as the character she plays, Aung San Suu Kyi?
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WAR HORSE
03/02/2012 : (Premiered Feb 2)
MOVIE REVIEWS
Three flavours
03/02/2012 : Baseball geeks will revel in the chance to cheer along with the underdog that makes it, the league-stinker that stuns the big-spender, with the help of digital tinkering. But even if you're illiterate in the great American game, this sport drama has enough of a broad sweep to hook you along with Billy Beane, the real-life manager of Oakland Athletics who, in 2001, gambled with the then-unthinkable strategy of computer analysis and took his team on a 20-match winning streak. That Beane is played by Brad Pitt _ boyish, beaming and bright-eyed _ is, if not exactly a grand slam, a pretty swooping homerun.
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Peeking into the past
03/02/2012 : In her book, On Photography, Susan Sontag pointed out that the passage of time often readjusts the aspects of a photograph that we find interesting. When looking at an old photo of someone's remote relative, taken in the 1880s or 1890s, the face of the person represented may be the first thing we look at, but often the clothing is what really draws the attention, or the furniture, knick-knacks sitting on shelves or tabletops, books on shelves, lamps or wallpaper, things that would have been taken for granted by the person who took the photo.
Lifescapes returns
01/02/2012 : Southeast Asian cinema seems to be finally asserting its relevance. Starting tomorrow, in Chiang Mai, the Lifescapes Film Festival will be offering a four-day showcase of Southeast Asian perspectives, with movies from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand.
Thammasat film schedule
01/02/2012 : Here's the schedule for "Movie Talk", a screening of films selected by Songyote Waeohongsa, for the month of February. The films will be shown every Thursday starting 5pm at the Rewat Buddhinan activity room, Thammasat University's Pridi Banomyong Library, Ta Phra Chan campus.
Film festival needs direction
01/02/2012 : If the Red Carpet works, the film festival works. That seems to be the motto of the hype machine behind last weekend's Hua Hin International Film Festival, which proudly paraded stars down the sandy, horse-free beach of the InterContinental while the cinemas were haunted by ghosts. Nothing's wrong with using a movie festival to support tourism, as long as some attention is paid to what it's all about: film, and the film-going experience.
Suu Kyi biopic wraps Hua Hin film
31/01/2012 : The first Hua Hin International Film Festival wrapped on Sunday evening with the screening of The Lady, Luc Besson's biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi starring Michelle Yeoh in the eponymous role.
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