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1. opinion | 18 May 2013
Cannes report: 'A Touch of Sin' an early favourite
By Kong Rithdee
» Good year? Bad year? Average year? The question is common, extraneous, and yet on everyone’s lips after three days into the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
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2. opinion | 18 May 2013
Passion for film, football out of control
COMMENTARY
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: News
» The only thing that inspires more passion than cinema is football. And vice versa. As social and literary critic Roland Barthes rightly said, everyone is an expert when it comes to movies and sport. A cheeky hyperbole, b...
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3. lifestyle | 17 May 2013
All that glitters is not Gatsby
MOVIE REVIEW
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» This is not unexpected. Baz Luhrmann's modus operandi is never subtlety, and his milking of whatever slim, tenuous, ephemeral material cheerfully goes for full bombast. So The Great Gatsby, enjoyable though not so gr...
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4. opinion | 16 May 2013
Cannes report: The joyful jury
By Kong Rithdee
» CANNES, France - One of the great mysteries is how you judge movies.
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5. travel | 16 May 2013
Poles Apart
TRAVEL SCRAPBOOK
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» The spirit of rebirth is almost palpable as you walk the streets and hear the stories of Warsaw. Wiped off the map in the 19th century, reduced to ashes by German planes and panzers in 1939 and consigned to suspended ani...
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6. lifestyle | 15 May 2013
A glittering showcase of film
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Cannes Film Festival opens today with Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, and for the next 12 days the Mediterranean resort town on the French Riviera plays host to the 66th edition of the world's most respected, mo...
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7. lifestyle | 14 May 2013
Chopin lives yet
MUSIC
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Poland has the blessing of a succession of great composers. This year the country is celebrating the centenary of Witold Lutoslawski, and that has helped revive the interest in the Polish mid-century avant-garde, the lik...
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8. lifestyle | 10 May 2013
Rebels of the neon god
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Vithaya Pansringam has the honour of beating Ryan Gosling into a sorry mess. "I feel privileged!" says the 54-year-old kendo expert, ballet school administrator and now first-bill actor of the film Only God Forgives. "Us...
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9. lifestyle | 10 May 2013
Embrace the darkness
REVIEW
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Even Mr Spock gets to defy the prime directive, mess up his signature Vulcan hairdo, and have a savage brawl in the high-octane sequel of the rebooted Star Trek franchise. Not to mention the hotshot James Tiberius Kirk, ...
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10. lifestyle | 10 May 2013
Patravadi cements her status
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» For Patravadi Mechudhon, chic is not an adjective but a state of mind. It's something she's always been (but never flaunted) even when nobody was quite sure what chic was. The grand dame of Thai theatre, now 65, ...
