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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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Thai films in Toronto Film Fest
It's the biggest cine-jamboree in North America: The Toronto Intl Film Festival takes place this year from Sept 10 to 19. The fest screens nearly 500 films every year and functions as a launchpad for a number of Oscar-hopeful American titles. At the same time, it's considered a prestigious ...
Read this blog post | comments (2)29 July 2009
Film rating to start
It's better than nothing, but is it really? Finally the long-awaited, much-protested film rating system will be introduced to movies released in Thailand -- 40 years after the US, a decade after other Southeast Asian countries, and nearly 80 years after Thai filmmakers started making movies. There ...
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Cannes: Michael Hanake wins Palme d'Or
Michael Hanake wins the Palme d'Or from "The White Ribbon", a cold, subtly disturbing fable about a Protestant village that experiences a series of bizarre events -- a metaphorical deterioration of human souls prior to First World War. A strong contender before the Sunday's announcement was ...
Read this blog post | comments (2)23 May 2009
Cannes Day 11: The rite of spring
Ahhhhhhh. The Palme d’Or will be announced this evening French time) and the race is finally coming to an end. After a slow start, Cannes produces a fairly good year, with a number of solid films, a few shocks, a few boos, and a lively atmosphere that testifies to the health of autuer cinema. ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)23 May 2009
Cannes Day 10: Tokyo without Tokyo
Cannes Day 10 Western filmmakers’ fascination with Japan isn’t something terribly new, and two Competition titles on Day 10 are both shot in Tokyo. First, a French enfant terrible Gasper Noe gives us a total immersion experience in “Enter the Void”, an audacious, self-indulgent and ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)21 May 2009
Cannes Day 9: Karaoke and sunrise party
I confess that my batteries are running low. After 9 days of heavy movie-consumption, little sleep, and minimum human contact (when you subject yourself to the tyranny of moving images, reality fades away), I edge closer to the state of wakeful delirium. It’s delicious, but also exhausting. Not to ...
Read this blog post | comments (1)21 May 2009
Cannes Day 8: Inglourious Basterds
Asked why he spells his title the way he spells it, Quentin Tarantino cleared his throat and refused to reply, fearing that the magic would be lost. Bastards or basterds, there are quite a number of them in “Inglourious Basterds”, a delicious, farcical World War Two romp through Nazi-occupied ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)19 May 2009
Cannes Day 7: It’s good to be in the bunker built by the French Resistance
Jim Carrey was there at the screening of his new film “I Love You Phillip Morris”. “It’s good to be here in the bunker built by the Resistance,” the actor said, jokingly referring to the huge underground auditorium that is the main venue of the Directors’ Fortnight programme on ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)18 May 2009
Cannes Day 6: The beauty of disagreement, or something like that
Cannes Day 6 As expected, the calculated extremism of Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” (see Day 5) dominated the festival today. At the second screening this morning, a friend reported that a member of the audience was so outraged by the scene of self-mutilation and preposterous violence that he ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)17 May 2009
Cannes Day 5: Antichrist
Finally, we had something that woke everybody up from the torpor. And it wasn’t surprising that the provider of the shock (and ridiculousness and even repulsion) is the Danish provocateur Lars von Trier. The restless prankster’s new film is “Antichrist” – after two hours it’s still not ...
Read this blog post | comments (1)17 May 2009
Cannes Day 4: The mini-mob of famished ladies and gentlemen
Cannes Day 4: There was an ensemble of traditional Thai musicians playing in Cannes this afternoon. They were flown in from Bangkok, to perform at the reception hosted by the Ministry of Culture at the Thai pavillion on the beach. The minister himself, Democrat MP Thira Salakpetch, was there to ...
Read this blog post | comments (0)15 May 2009
Cannes Day 3: Sing sing sing – and dance dance dance!
You cross yourself when you see TWO very good films in a row. And they both are not in the Competition! First, I had a mesmerising afternoon watching “Ne Change Rien”, an unclassifiable specimen from the Portuguese ace Pedro Costa, shown in the sidebar Directors’ Fortnight. The luminous ...
Read this blog post | comments (1)14 May 2009
Cannes Day 2: Vampire priest and air doll sex
Outlandish sex is prominently featured every year in the Official Selection. Today a Korean film “Thirst” continues the tradition. See if you can top this: a Catholic priest becomes a vampire and has hot sex with a virgin in a hospital room next to a comatose patient. After it’s done, the ...
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