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Streep, Abe open Tokyo Film Fest
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/10/2016
» Meryl Streep walked down on the red carpet as light drizzle cooled the opening of the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival on Tuesday.
In fighting IS, don't mimic its evil ways
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/02/2015
» It was a sad week, a week of satanic beheadings, then the barbarous immolation, executed and filmed by that godless bunch as if in mockery of Hollywood war movies. A week of moral anger and global blood lust, from Amman to Tokyo by way of Iraq. A week of sadness that quickly morphed into something like vengeance, as war cries sounded over the medieval fortresses of Jordan and Egypt and echoed to the South China Sea.
Mindanao offers lessons for South
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/04/2014
» There are signs of uncertainty. No, not the red-shirt rendezvous on Utthayan Road or the summit of the Suthep Thaugsuban-led movements at Lumpini Park, both happening with egoistic drum rolling today. As usual, Bangkok politics has the kind of narcissism and surreal influence that monopolises the headlines and consigns other struggles — more real, more fatal struggles — to the attic of our attention. If the way forward is decentralisation, let’s start by at least trying to look further afield than Bangkok’s face-off and the oratory salvoes of Mr Suthep and Jatuporn Prompan.
Losing land is bad, but don't lose your head
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/11/2013
» Maps are back. Or precisely, the interpretative wildcard that accompanies maps.
Asian elephant in Hollywood's cruel parlour
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/09/2013
» Even a tiny speck of Hollywood dust must have weighed like a tonne of gold to movie stars on this side of the Pacific. It must have felt like a validation - no, it is a validation, a passport to a new planet, the one phone call that vindicates all the hard work and years of toiling.
Asia's alter ego
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/03/2013
» Two upcoming film showcases explore the many faces of Asean and offer a close look at Thailand.
Peter chan_ balancing on the cutting edge
B Magazine, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/01/2013
» Facing a forest of reporters' microphones, Peter Ho Sun Chan speaks Thai with the slight accent of someone who remembers the tongue, but not the spontaneity.
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.
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.
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.