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Career direction
Muse, Pimchanok Phungbun Na Ayudhya, Published on 20/06/2015
» As a first-time film director, Manatsanun Phanlerdwongsakul has good reason to be excited. Her film, the romantic comedy Love Sucks, is opening on Thursday, with the actressturned- filmmaker now applying the final touches in the editing room.
TV Tastemaker
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 29/05/2015
» With 24 years of experience in the entertainment industry, Attaphon Na Bangxang works as TrueVisions’ chief programme and content officer and acts as True Corporation’s group director for content and programming. He has played instrumental roles in securing a licence to produce True Academy Fantasia, the Thai version of Mexican musical talent show La Academia, and broadcasting rights to major soccer leagues, movies, documentaries and other entertainment programmes. Attaphon also decides what programmes will be broadcast on TrueVisions. The cast of the new season of True Academy Fantasia will be announced on Jun 2, and will be broadcast on TrueVisions, from Jun 28-Sep 19.
Dutch Mill brews up instant coffee
Business, Pitsinee Jitpleecheep, Published on 27/02/2015
» Dutch Mill Co, the producer of Dutch Mill dairy products, is branching out into instant coffee to challenge Nescafe, the longtime market leader.
A lazy person attempts running
Guru, Sumati Sivasiamphai, Published on 24/10/2014
» Last weekend, I participated in my first run. I don't mean the kind of manic movements I exhibit when there's a rabid soi dog chasing me, or when I hear the jingle of a Wall's ice cream truck coming down the street.
The cinema bridge
Life, Published on 24/09/2014
» Looking for her lead actor, director Nichaya Boonsiripan spent three months hanging out at the Immigration Service Centre for Legalised Labourers of Three Nationalities (Myanmar, Cambodian and Laos). She finally picked up Aung Naing Soe for the film Myanmar In Love In Bangkok (Ruk Pasa A-Rai), a romantic comedy about love between a Thai woman and a male migrant worker from Myanmar, which is currently showing in selected cinemas.
Romance among the ruins
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/09/2014
» Love is a crumbling currency in the wistful, strangely affecting Pavang Rak (Concrete Clouds). Set in 1997, during the economic meltdown that burst our bubble and left urban carcases of unfinished skyscrapers, the film remembers the emotional inertia of that year and watches its characters drift like ghosts as they realise that even love — of all the catastrophes — can't give them salvation. There's voluptuous despair. There's a full cabinet of 1990s pop-cultural reminiscence, and there's the filmmaker's awkward strive to reconcile the narrative flow with his experimental impulses — and yet here's a Thai film that's as tender as it is bold. It's also a film about the mood (and not necessarily the actualities) of that fateful, uneasy moment of 17 years ago when the market crashed and our sense of the future dashed.
Singha offers rare treat for fans as they launch new campaign
Sports, Kittipong Thongsombat, Published on 09/08/2014
» Singha Corporation has launched a campaign for fans to get chances to watch world-class races in various disciplines.
A crack in the foundation
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/06/2014
» The idea that, in horror films, you can smuggle poor storytelling under the cloak of the night is silly, unless you are Dario Argento or Andrzej Zulawski (or recently, Under The Skin’s Jonathan Glazer). More nails are driven into the coffin when that darkened mood, that low-key lighting of the long night, those contrivances for sultry spook, don’t pay off with a few good scares. People go to the movies for three reasons, said The Exorcist director William Friedkin — “to laugh, to cry or to be frightened”. Without those, I add reluctantly, a cinema is a cemetery not worth visiting.
All figured out
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 20/06/2014
» In with the new, but not necessarily out with the old. As the film and television production company Kantana enters its third generation, the founders’ myriad of grandchildren have begun to step into the spotlight to take over the different wings of the empire.
Uuntimely outburst, It is not porn, General defaults
News, Mae Moo, Published on 15/06/2014
» Crossing the Line