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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• 13 May 2009

  Cannes Day 1: Spring Fever

  By Kong Rithdee

  Cannes Day 1: Spring Fever Cannes is hot and sweaty, as usual. The mob of journalists and industry professionals have already descended on this French resort town, mingling with an equally determined mob of full-time star-gazers and young women in see-through black dresses holding placards begging ...

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• 10 May 2009

  Cannes: It's going to be a bloodbath

  By Kong Rithdee

  If Cannes Film Festival were a gladiatorial arena, this year there would be a bloodbath.No swords will be unsheathed, but the duels are as much metaphorical as it is literal: The line-up of films in the top-tier In Competition, the special Out-of-Competition, and the sidebar Un Certain Regard, is ...

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