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Cannes report: 'A Touch of Sin' an early favourite
Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» 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.
Cannes and misdemeanours
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» 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 (about 30 million baht) worth of Chopard jewellery astonished (and amused) festival-goers; the crime took pace hours after the screening of Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, about brazen heists of celebrity homes.
Slow-burn fear
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» Bangkok, basked in theatrical blood and phantasmagoric red colour, is a vision of hell in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, a violent thriller that premiered at the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.
Sin and the art of redemptive violence
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» 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 festival, and the real violence back in his home country where the unstoppable motor of progress has brought on many changes, good and otherwise.
A glittering showcase of film
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» 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, most influential and most circus-like cine-jamboree. Stars, filmmakers, industry bigwigs and journalists congregate for the annual pilgrimage that celebrates, sanctifies and commercialises cinema to an extent that's both astounding and puzzling.
China's censors thwart 'Gone with the Bullets' premiere
AFP, Published on 08/12/2014
» BEIJING - The premiere of acclaimed Chinese director Jiang Wen's latest film, "Gone with the Bullets" has been abruptly delayed due to last-minute demands by censors, its producer said Monday.
China's Wang Chao guns for second award at Cannes
AFP, Published on 21/05/2014
» Eight years after winning the new talent prize at Cannes, Chinese director Wang Chao is hoping to renew the feat with his new film about a family that falls apart over the father's cancer.
'Thin Ice' director sees China's art-house scene breaking through
AFP, Published on 15/05/2014
» Director Diao Yinan is enjoying unprecedented domestic success with his gritty thriller “Black Coal, Thin Ice”, but says he could achieve more if it were not for the restrictions censors impose on him and his fellow Chinese art-house filmmakers.
Cannes poised for world's biggest film extravaganza
AFP, Published on 14/05/2014
» A cool-looking Marcello Mastroianni stared down at passers-by in Cannes Tuesday, as Hollywood heavyweights and first-time directors poured into the French Riviera resort for the world's biggest film festival.
Cannes poised for world's biggest film extravaganza
AFP, Published on 13/05/2014
» Giant portraits of movie stars beamed down on passers by in Cannes on Tuesday as Hollywood heavyweights and first-time directors prepared to pour into the French Riviera resort for the world's biggest film festival.