Bangkok Post: Opinion

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Berlin and the Bolsheviks

By Kong Rithdee

Berlin, Feb 10Overthrown kingdoms mark the first two highlights of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, commonly known as the Berlinale. On Feb 9 the festival, taking place amidst the temperature so cruel to tropical creatures that I'd venture to nickname the event the Brrrrrrlinale, opened ...

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• 29 September 2009

  It's a wrap: Bangkok Intl Film Festival

  By Kong Rithdee

   After six days of masochistic film-viewing, Bangkok cinephiles sport their bleary eyes like a badge of honour. "I'll lose a guy for a film, but I'll never lose a film for a guy," declared Nathalie Baye in Truffaut's intimate ode to filmmaking "Day For Night". I don't suggest ...

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• 21 September 2009

  Five films you should see at Bangkok Intl Film Festival

  By Kong Rithdee

  Amid the repulsive stench of the TAT bribery scandal, in which the puveyor of "commission" money was convicted yet the receiver inexplicably wasn't (at least not yet), the Bangkok International Film Festival keeps its head above the water and wades on, shakily yet interminably. The ...

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