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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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Three's A Treat
04/01/2012 : We open the year with an unusual occurrence in the cinema-going sphere: This month there will be three film festivals slated to satisfy the thirst and curiosity of local audiences. Two of them are taking place in the cultural stronghold of Bangkok, while the other has come up with the strange choice of Hua Hin. Two of them will feature alternative cinema of vastly diverse temperaments, while the other sticks mostly with munchy fares from across Asia. All of them, luckily, are privately funded.
Pick of the Week
The Adventures of Tintin
30/12/2011 : (Premiered Dec 29)
MOVIE REVIEW
The sad fate of all spies
30/12/2011 : Quote: "Small, podgy... His legs were short, his gait anything but agile, his dress costly, ill-fitting and extremely wet."
Entertainment's HIGHS & LOWS in2011
Big Screen, Little News
28/12/2011 : The news is there's no big news. In 2011 the Thai film scene trudged along, with some high hopes and no superfluous fears. No films were banned, and bad movies far outnumbered decent ones _ around 50 Thai titles have been released this year, about a dozen of them independent productions. It's a period of stability and slow growth and borderline boredom. All for the best.
Pick of the Week
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
23/12/2011 : (Premiered Dec 22)
MOVIE REVIEW
A homage to the City of Light
23/12/2011 : In Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen continues his sly expeditions to enchanting European cities. Some of those trips faltered, rather miserably, like the wearisome, London-set Scoop in 2006; and some sparkled, like the globally loved (except maybe in the Catalan capital) Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in which every stereotype of the Spanish trait and location was merrily exploited. The most European of American film-makers, the 71-year-old Allen made his finest films years ago on the streets of New York; here, the City of Light offers the uncontested spirit of what people think of Europe _ or at least Europe in the imagination of non-Europeans, mostly trapped in the image from the previous centuries _ so Allen takes a sweeping look at the present and the past and gives us what we may term an ironic-tourism postcard movie, part joke, part nostalgia.
FILMING CULTURES
22/12/2011 : A workshop on ethnographic film-making called "Visual Anthropology" will be held from April 2 to 12 at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre.
Our Best Films of 2011
21/12/2011 : As I reiterate every year, there are films you like and films you don't. As a critic and cultural observer, I try my best to go a little beyond that _ to prove that cinema still matters as a tool of thought, of politics, of social criticism, or of the simple magic that we sometimes forget while being swept along with the rush of commodified movies.
Film school wins award
19/12/2011 : Kantana's Film and Animation Institute in Nakhon Pathom is a joint winner of the 2011 ar+d Awards for Emerging Architecture, held by UK-based magazine, Architectural Review. The institute is the work of architect Boonserm Premthada and his design team.
Pick of the Week
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
16/12/2011 : (Premiered Dec 15)
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