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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.
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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Impossible what?
16/12/2011 : Brad Bird directed The Incredibles _ that richly animated movie about a family of superheroes _ so the latest Impossible, with 50-year-old Tom Cruise playing superman in disguise, seems a natural step further. The missions this time take place in four cities: Budapest, where the camera swoops over its solemn grandeur; Moscow, where the Kremlin is sinisterly bombed to bits; Dubai, where the world's tallest building gives you a thrilling case of perpetual, Imax-induced vertigo; and Mumbai, colourful with Orientalist cliches. To go by that quartet of geography, Mission: Impossible _ Ghost Protocol is hugely entertaining in the first three locations, before flunking into an insipid setpiece in what should've been spicy India. But three out of four override that quibble; the Dubai gig alone is probably one of the year's most pulsating choreographies. Look at the director's name again and you'll get to appreciate that technical argot in full: Bird's eye view.