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Jane Birkin, British-French celebrity and style icon, dies at 76
AFP, Published on 16/07/2023
» PARIS - Jane Birkin, the British-born singer and actress who became a style icon in her adopted France, has died, a source close to her said on Sunday. She was 76.
French cinema giant Jean-Luc Godard dies aged 91
AFP, Published on 13/09/2022
» ROLLE (SWITZERLAND): Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and the father of the French New Wave, died "peacefully at home" on Tuesday aged 91, his family said.
Of zombies and fairy tales
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/05/2022
» The opening films across the three programmes at the 75th Cannes Film Festival speak of disparate destinies of contemporary cinema, from the poetic to the political and the pointless. Let's start with the latter.
France stages rare national tribute to film icon Belmondo
AFP, Published on 10/09/2021
» PARIS: Thousands turned out Thursday in Paris to honour Jean-Paul Belmondo, the film icon who helped define French identity for six decades, with President Emmanuel Macron offering an emotional farewell to the star who died this week aged 88.
Belmondo, French film's handsome devil, dies at 88
AFP, Published on 06/09/2021
» PARIS - With his devil-may-care charm, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who has died aged 88, was the poster boy of the New Wave, France's James Dean and Humphrey Bogart rolled into one irresistible man.
Restored Thai classic Black Silk selected by Cannes
Life, Published on 24/07/2020
» Prae Dum (Black Silk), a 1961 Thai crime noir directed and produced by R.D. Pestonji, has been selected by Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Classics section. But since the coronavirus pandemic prevented Cannes from taking place in May, the festival has attached the "Official Selection 2020" banner to the film and will hold a special screening for Black Silk at Shanghai International Film Festival tomorrow.
Highbrow picks from Netflix
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/05/2020
» Cannes Film Festival, the annual jamboree of world cinema usually taking place in May, has been postponed until further notice. In its absence, we delve into the Netflix menu and find four films that made their debut at Cannes over the past decades and made a noise in their own way.
Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov enters day 100 of hunger strike
AFP, Published on 21/08/2018
» MOSCOW - Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov on Tuesday entered day 100 of his hunger strike, as he languishes in a Russian Arctic prison on terror charges with little hope of release.
Cinema lies, football doesn't
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/06/2018
» 'Cinema lies, sport doesn't."
Sometimes transcendental, always relevant
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/05/2018
» The American films were on short supply this year at Cannes -- which in turn deprived the assembly line of red carpet material -- but nobody seemed to mind that except, well, some American media and fashion bloggers. That superfluous caveat aside, the recently wrapped 71st Cannes Film Festival was nearly unanimously praised as one of the best editions in recent memory, with a string of good, sometimes very good, titles playing night after night -- and even the bad films weren't so offensively bad, as was often the case. In the midst of soul-searching following the question of relevance (the world wants Avengers), the rise of streaming (the world watches films on phones), the decline of arthouse popularity, Cannes insists on the sacredness of cinema, on the future of the art, and this year it paid off solidly.