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1. lifestyle | 22 May 2013
There's no truth, There's only cinema
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Cambodian director Rithy Panh's new documentary film pays tribute to and questions the power of image. With a tender, evocative and self-reflective tone, the film is about images that can be shown and that cannot, th...
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2. lifestyle | 22 May 2013
Cannes and misdemeanours
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» At the 66th Cannes film Festival, off-screen drama attempts to steal the limelight from on-screen offerings. Last Friday, the news of a diamond robbery at a hotel room from which a burglar made off with US$1 million (abo...
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3. lifestyle | 21 May 2013
Sin and the art of redemptive violence
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Sitting in the courtyard of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke talks about violence _ the violence in his new movie that is riding a wave of critical favour at the world's biggest film festiva...
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4. opinion | 20 May 2013
Cannes Report: The Coens and Dutch gallows humour
By Kong Rithdee
» The hottest ticket in Cannes over the weekend is, surprisingly, a pre-Bob Dylan tale of a struggling folk singer steeped in his own hilarious myth: "Inside Llewyn Davis" is the new film by Joel and Ethan Coen starring Os...
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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...
