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Berlin and the Bolsheviks
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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23 May 2011
Day 12: The winners
Let's keep it simple here: The 64th Cannes Film Festival winnersPalme d'Or: "The Tree of Life" by Terrence Malick.Grand Prix (secon prize): "The Kid With a Bike" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.Best Director: ...
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Day 11: Palme Dog
Day 11, May 21It's almost over! The Bangkok tin mine is waiting for me! The Palme d'Or will be announced Sunday night around 8pm (1am in Thailand). The Palme Dog, however, was already announced -- yes, there's a prize for best canine performance in film, a kind of adorable spoof that should please ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)21 May 2011
Day 10: Of Lars and other demons
Day 10,A stupid joke stole the headlines the last two days in Cannes, and in the absense of a dazzling movie that might have shifted the discussion elsewhere, the bewildering swirl of the latest Lars antics remains a saucy topic as we queued up in lines. Freedom of expression? Didn't France ban ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)20 May 2011
Day 9: Drive, Ryan, Drive!
May 19, Day 9I was wrong. I thought he would come and go peacefully. But Lars Von Trier managed to get himself into a bewildering scandal, again. This afternoon, Cannes officially "condemned" the Danish filmmaker for his Nazi-related remarks and declared him a "Persona Non ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)19 May 2011
Day 8: Love! Honour! Revenge! In 3D!
May 18, Day 8Cosmic calamity is the in thing. While Terrence Malick sees astrophysics as a Biblical wonder, Lars Von Trier, never one to let himself be outdone, has literally thrown a planet into his characters. LVT's new film, "Melancholia", consists of one long wedding scene (Kirsten ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)18 May 2011
Day 7: Aki
May 17, Day 7Report from a spurned viewer said he was shut out from the reprise screening of "The Artist", Michel Hazanavicius' silent, black-and-white confection that has become the most-loved film of the festival. He queued up 40 minutes before showtime, and there were over 100 people in ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)17 May 2011
Day 6: That mysterious tree
May 16, Day 6The boos came almost with pre-meditated atrocity. Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life", a metaphysical rumination on Life and God and Natural History, among other things, has divided the critics and sent the Croisette abuzz. Apparently, the boos began even before the ...
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Day 5: Bordellos!
Day 5, May 15Usually by Day 5 it should've happened, at least once. But so far booing, another Cannes tradition, hasn't entertained the international press corp so hungry for scandal. There was a feeble attempt this evening after the screening of the dreamy bordello tale, "L'Apollonide" ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)15 May 2011
Day 4: The kids are not all right
May 14, Day 4 I have a funny feeling that there are probably about 12 people reading this, you know, the Dirty Dozen of insomniac cinephilia, holed up in some dark Siamese caves, half-drugged by the rotting enchantment of artistic cinema. OK, Dirty Dozen, as they say in American movies, let's ...
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Day 3: Holy father help me
Day 3, May 13 It's only three days, and nobody is going to jump off the cliff or flee to North Africa for not having encountered a cinematic revelation. There is NO cinematic revelation, as long as you're clamouring for one. Let's take it easy, for the big guns will start smoking on Sunday and onto ...
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Day 2: Thai Night and a haunted supermarket
Day 2, May 12First thing first: The Thai Night.Playing a patriot and freeloader, I missed Faye Dunaway and the screening of her 1970 movie "Puzzle of the Downfall Child" by opting instead to attend the Thai Night, a showcase party sumptuously held at Hotel Majestic (wow!) and lubricated by ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)12 May 2011
Cannes Day 1: Sleeping, Beauty
May 11, Day 1In Cannes there are a number of strange practices that have matured into some sort of tradition. For example, at a press screening somebody in the audience would shout "Raoul!" right at the start, provoking a throaty laugh from the rest. For what, I have no idea, and who's ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)10 May 2011
Daily Cannes Blog from Kong Rithdee Begins!
So here we go again. It's been a tradition in the past three years that Yours Truly, by fate and love and obligations, brings you a daily update from Cannes Film Festival, also known as cinematic Purgatory, somewhere close to Heaven as much as Hell. It is, of course, the most respected ...
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