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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• 11 September 2011

  "Faust" won Golden Lion in Venice

  By Kong Rithdee

  It rang like a false alarm: despite pre-screening expectations, hardly could you detect Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" in the new re-reading of "Faust". I raise this particular point since it could've been a perfect night at the 68th Venice International Film Festival when ...

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• 09 September 2011

  Youth angst in Venice

  By Kong Rithdee

  Sept 8 Venice hosts the world’s oldest movie festival, but what has throbbed and bubbled in the past few days is young angst. It’s a grim world for youths, from the Greek meltdown in ‘Alps’ to the post-tsunami moral anarchy in ‘Himizu’, and the radical romance of the latest adaption of ...

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• 05 September 2011

  In Venice, Mr. Neaw and Mr. Fassbender

  By Kong Rithdee

  Venice, Sept 4Briefly here. Yesterday Rirkrit Tiravanija, emiment visual artist and maestro of live museum curry-cooking, premiered 'Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours' in the Orrizonti section. The 149-minute film -- which presents nothing more than the uncle of the title walking, talking, farming, ...

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• 03 September 2011

  In Venice, Jung, Freud, and Glory of Prostitutes

  By Kong Rithdee

   Venice, Sept 2A wounded physician is the best physician, said Carl Jung. And thus a madwoman makes a perfect psychiatrist -- someone who's gone over the threshold and come back, clutching the precious knowledge of which those who remain safely on this side would never know. Or so it is sugested in ...

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• 02 September 2011

  In Venice, Madonna and her movie

  By Kong Rithdee

   Venice, September 1 The sun, as expected, is fierce. The movies, so far, have been lukewarm. The 68th Venice International Film Festival opened on Aug 31 with George Clooney's The Ides of March, in which Ryan Goslin plays a press secretay to Clooney's presidential candidate. And in the past two ...

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