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Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/11/2017
» Challenging taboos, one of Thailand's most popular directors returns with a film that looks death in the eye
Life, Published on 22/06/2017
» From today until Sunday, the many faces of Singapore are on display at the Singapore Film Festival 2017 at SF CentralWorld. In the programme are five films -- screened free of charge -- that capture the complexity of Singaporean society, including two titles that look at the lesser-known sides of the island nation invariably associated with order and wealth.
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/04/2017
» The elephant and the man, walking down the road to redemption and encountering the wounded and the marginalised, the madmen and the prostitutes. In the film Pop Aye, which will kick off Bangkok Asean Film Festival 2017 this evening (see sidebar), the fine-tusked beast accompanies the lost soul as the duo find their way home from Bangkok to the Northeast.
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/09/2016
» The dirt road is dry and red, scorched by the Isan sun. The headmaster is wary, sardonic, and enervated by the heat. The students, or at least some of them, are bored and ironic ("What do you want to be when you grow up?" a teacher asks. "A bank robber," he deadpans.) Next to this poor state school is a forest, sun-dappled, mysterious and probably haunted. Girls are warned not to go in there because they may never come back out.
Life, Published on 25/04/2012
» TWO FREE FILM FESTIVALS THIS WEEK SERVE UP CINEMATIC TREATS FROM