Bangkok Post: Opinion

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

New Facebook group: We're sick of the Ministry of Culture

By Kong Rithdee

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 ...

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• 17 November 2009

  More on pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodian films

  By Kong Rithdee

  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 ...

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• 02 November 2009

  The way you make me feel!

  By Kong Rithdee

  Is it really surprising that Michael Jackson's posthumous movie is, well, good? Wasn't he always, on stage, when he seemed interminably possessed by the gods of musicality that cured him from his off-stage pains?  Before last Wednesday's release of This Is It a numberof people -- sardonic reviewers ...

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• 19 October 2009

  The story of Monk Non

  By Kong Rithdee

  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 ...

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• 12 October 2009

  From Pusan: Mundane History and New New Thai Cinema

  By Kong Rithdee

  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 ...

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