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Saturday, February 11, 2012
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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09 December 2009
New Facebook group: We're sick of the Ministry of Culture
Don't come after me, I'm in Dubai (seriously), and I have no idea who founded a new Facebook group, which is attracting robust clicks: It's prominently titled "We're sick of the Ministry of Culture." Except a few well-coiffed ladies, who isn't? Our Ministry of (non)Culture is ...
Read this blog post | comments (31)17 November 2009
More on pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodian films
The girl with a head full of baby-snakes wasn't the only screen celeb of the pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodian cinema.To follow up on my piece in the Post about Khmer films ("A Bridge Over Troubled Waters" http://bit.ly/2kjOGn), which was naturally hampered by limited space and the inherently ...
Read this blog post | comments (9)19 October 2009
The story of Monk Non
Monk Non is now living in a forest temple in Sakol Nakorn. He recently said to a friend: "Making films is a form of repaying your karma." The friend listened, pondered, and believed without a slight vibration in his heart that it was true.Monk non, or Thanon Sattarujawong before he made ...
Read this blog post | comments (2)12 October 2009
From Pusan: Mundane History and New New Thai Cinema
The good news from the 14th Pusan International Film Festival is not the absence of monsoon shower or the fact that, so far, no one was actually dead or injured from the late, late, late night epic drinking sessions that have made this Korean port city legendary among visiting delegates, who’re ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)08 October 2009
No kimchi jokes please: Pusan is the place to be
Some locals describe Pusan, somewhat rosily, as "the summer resort." First-time visitors to this seaside city in South Korea may wince, however, as the plane flies over a stretch of bleak concrete blocks and overhanging highways and lands at the equally drab Gimhae airport. Talk about the ...
Read this blog post | comments (1)06 October 2009
A truth or a semblance of truth: A Reader on "Burma VJ"
This recently came in. With permission from the writer, Andrew Marshall, I reprint his letter -- and his valuable comments -- below. The debate on what's a truth and what's just a semblance of truth, and on the role of documentary films and moving images in the age of free information (at least in ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)29 September 2009
It's a wrap: Bangkok Intl Film Festival
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 ...
Read this blog post | comments (6)21 September 2009
Five films you should see at Bangkok Intl Film Festival
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 ...
Read this blog post | comments (3)18 August 2009
Note on BKK Intl Film Fest
The date is Sept 24 to 30, 2009. The theme, outlandishly, is "Hollywood Glamour". The Bangkok International Film Festival, much maligned by the press since 2004, bounced back to become a fairly respectable movie event last year under the leadership of Thai Directors' Assoc and Federation ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)15 August 2009
Phuket will get its own namesake movie
Tokyo's got "Tokyo!"; Paris's got "Paris Je t'aime", New York's got "New York Stories" (and many others). Now the southern island resort will get a chance to flaunt its exotic moniker: As of me writing this, Aditya Assarat is shooting "Phuket", a short film ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)08 August 2009
Bangkok shorts
More Thai movies will go the Toronto Intl Film Fest (see the post below): Four, actually, all of them short films that form parts of the 9-movie omnibus "Charming Bangkok" commissioned by TV Thai. The four shorts are "Silence" by Pen-ek Ratanaruang, "Sightseeing" by ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)07 August 2009
Southern discomfort
With the mini-showcase of Thai films about the South taking place at Paragon Cineplex from Aug 7 to 9 (hosted by the Tourism Board and the Film Archive), below I've reprinted my article about the cinematic impression of southern Thailand -- with the emphasis on the film I believe to remain a ...
Read this blog post | comments (1)04 August 2009
Still waiting for film ratings
The wait is becoming a little anti-climactic. Last week I reported that the first meeting of the seven-man rating committee would take place this week. Not so fast. My sources also informed me last week that the first film to enter the rating committee would be the Thai action movie "Jija Due Suay ...
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