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The school of trauma
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 03/10/2025
» Remember that Netflix documentary last year called The Program: Cons, Cults, And Kidnapping? It exposed the horrors young people endure through parent-sanctioned abductions to so-called academies designed to "fix" wayward kids. That documentary left many of us shaken with its raw look into an industry that preys on fear and promises false solutions.
Protecting urban memory
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 29/04/2025
» Penprapa Ployseesuay did not know her husband's family had been the guardians of the Chao Mae Thapthim Shrine until they married in 1997. She quit her factory job in Nakhon Pathom and relocated to Bangkok to start a family. Despite the departure of her husband, she has been unwavering in her caretaking duties.
Roberta Flack, American singer and Grammy winner, dies
Reuters, Published on 25/02/2025
» NEW YORK — Roberta Flack, the silky-voiced Grammy-winning singer whose sultry ballads "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" topped the charts in the 1970s, died on Monday at the age of 88, her publicist said.
Miyazaki's likely swan song charms Toronto as film fest opens
AFP, Published on 08/09/2023
» TORONTO (CANADA) - The Toronto International Film Festival opened Thursday with admiring applause for "The Boy and the Heron," Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's likely last movie -- a meditation on love, loss and the horrors of World War II.
Watch movies, reflect on art at 10th edition of Cinema Diverse
Life, Published on 11/05/2023
» Cinema Diverse 2023 will be screening four thought-provoking films that explore various contemporary art issues in different contexts over two weekends from 2-5pm at the Auditorium, 5th floor of Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Pathumwan intersection.
Sean Penn Ukraine doc to premiere at Berlin film fest
AFP, Published on 23/01/2023
» BERLIN - US actor and director Sean Penn will premiere a documentary he filmed in Kyiv featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at next month's Berlin film festival, organisers said when they unveiled the full programme on Monday.
Learn more about the Bunnag clan
Life, Published on 24/03/2022
» Siam Society is holding a talk on "Chariot Of The Sun", which will get participants to learn more about the House of Bunnag, a powerful noble family during the late Ayutthaya kingdom and early Rattanakosin period, today at 7pm.
US author Joan Didion dead at 87
AFP, Published on 24/12/2021
» NEW YORK: Author Joan Didion, a US literary icon credited with ushering in "new journalism" with her essays on Los Angeles life in the tumultuous 1960s, died on Thursday. She was 87.
Shia LaBeouf role-plays his childhood in Honey Boy
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 08/11/2019
» Many of us remember actor Shia LaBeouf as the teen star whose career skyrocketed during the mid to late 2000s, playing in a number of blockbuster hits such as the epic sci-fi action Transformers franchise, Eagle Eye, or Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. But in the past few years, LaBeouf has somewhat faded from the spotlight, and that was largely due to his personal issues behind the cameras, from his public outbursts and a run-in with police to being arrested and admitting alcohol and substance abuse.
French New Wave film pioneer Agnes Varda dead at 90
AFP, Published on 30/03/2019
» PARIS - French film legend Agnes Varda, the only woman director to emerge from the so-called New Wave scene in the 1960s, has died aged 90 after a battle with cancer, her family said Friday.