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Three's A Treat
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2012
» We open the year with an unusual occurrence in the cinema-going sphere: This month there will be three film festivals slated to satisfy the thirst and curiosity of local audiences. Two of them are taking place in the cultural stronghold of Bangkok, while the other has come up with the strange choice of Hua Hin. Two of them will feature alternative cinema of vastly diverse temperaments, while the other sticks mostly with munchy fares from across Asia. All of them, luckily, are privately funded.
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Film screening of a rare kind
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/03/2012
» The screen was fixed to metal posts and planted into the ocean, about a hundred metres offshore. Two limestone outcrops rose behind it, like primeval guardians of the Andaman, or giant onlookers eager to know what was going on below. The audience, roughly 100 guests whizzed across the dark sea from the island of Yao Noi, were seated on a huge raft, a floating auditorium, with bean bags and benches and a bar, all conjured almost out of total darkness surrounding us. It was a strange, overwhelming, and incredibly distinctive experience. It was also perhaps the only film screening in the world at which the projectionists, two young men stationed on a high tower operating a 2K projector, had to wear lifejackets.
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Temple fair in the clouds
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2012
» Prayers in Paragon Hall. New iPad apps on meditation centres. A haunted house in which earthly desires stalk you like inexorable ghosts. A "dharma boy band" of singers interpreting their tunes through the spiritual looking glass. Then monks as film programmers picking movies that discuss virtues and vices in diverse voices. In short, Buddhism in a new setting: Buddhism in a mall.
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Regionalcross-Over
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/08/2012
» It helps that the part doesn't require him to speak much. Playing a soldier stationed in the Spratlys, a group of disputed islands in the South China Sea several nations lay claim to with some even flexing their military might, Ananda Everingham, in the new Filipino film Kalayaan, only has to speak three sentences in Tagalog.
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Night hasn't yet fallen
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/08/2012
» Ying Liang first heard he couldn't go home when he called his mother in China. He was then in South Korea, and soon the news was confirmed by the police: should he set foot back in Shanghai, where his family lives, the film-maker will face arrest.
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Road deaths are classless, the law is not
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/09/2012
» Rich kids and fast cars, put together, often inspire amazement, jealousy and maybe fear. One night last week, I was in Bang Lamphu when a convertible BMW swerved round and snuggled into a no-parking spot (the car looked even more expensive when it was in the no-parking spot). Two boys came out, looking pleased, and we looked at them looking pleased.
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China boards the laureate gravy train
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/10/2012
» So fans didn't get to dance on the street. The two moons of Haruki Murakami were eclipsed when he didn't win the Nobel Prize in literature, as the Japanese man seemed the only writer on the speculated shortlist capable of inspiring global adulation from admirers, including in Thailand, had Stockholm given him the call on Thursday.
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The reel deal
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/10/2012
» From the first Indian movie to Satyajit Ray and a recent corporate thriller, the many faces of Indian cinema are to be splashed on Bangkok screens _ with Thai subtitles and free of charge.
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Many faces of Tokyo film festival
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/10/2012
» The Tokyo International Film Festival celebrates its 25th edition this year, and while stars rolled down the signature Green Carpet and the 3D Cirque de Soleil fittingly raised the curtain on Saturday, the unfortunate Japan-China spat cast its shadow over the enthusiastic cinefest that's otherwise business, and movies, as usual.
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Learning from Laos
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/12/2012
» I was in Luang Prabang last weekend _ for a film festival, of all things. A giant screen was put up in the main square near the Handicraft Market, and for five nights people _ mostly local, with a fair sprinkling of tourists _ turned up in the hundreds to watch movies under the black night. Luang Prabang, with its functional archaeology of ancient, glorious buildings, has no cinemas. That's even better, we could say, for the effort to boost the appetite for moving images and the idea of movies as a collective experience.
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