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Montien Boonma, gone but never forgotten
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/12/2020
» Montien Boonma's death in 2000, at the age of 47, was perhaps the saddest episode ever felt by the Thai contemporary art circle.
SEA of delights
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/07/2019
» The Bangkok Asean Film Festival runs until July 8 and features 30 titles. Here are our top picks.
Celine Dion floats Bangkok's boat
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/07/2018
» That "sinking boat" song -- that's how Celine "My Heart Will Go On" Dion, joking with the casual humour of a seasoned Las Vegas residency entertainer, refers to her most played, most loved, most karaoke-d, and perhaps most clichéd number. How many times have you heard it? Hundreds, if not more, intentionally or accidentally. And yet, apparently, there's nothing compared to hearing it live, 21 years after that big boat sank in Titanic, belted out at top octave and lung power by Dion herself, as she did to the roaring crowd at Impact Arena on Monday night in her first-ever concert in Bangkok.
In Three Billboards, pain and grief seek a visual expression
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/03/2018
» Frances McDormand is an embodiment of maternal anger and defiance, of the weight of grief and guilt, which often comes in tandem. In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, her sorrow, festered into rage, is the emotional epicentre of the film that strives to quake all the American fault lines, moral, racial and political, and she gives a gut-punching performance in a classic feminist register that, as we have seen, eventually won her an Oscar.
The inevitability of farewell
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/02/2018
» A truly remarkable Thai film, Malila: The Farewell Flower takes big risks and makes it seem the most natural thing in the world.
Wandering narrative
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/02/2018
» There's a good film somewhere inside Sad Beauty, though I'm unable to locate its exact spot. It feels like something is on the verge of taking shape out of smoke and mirrors, something that could mean something. But it never is.
Oscar contenders from around the world
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/11/2017
» A record 92 films have been submitted to the Oscar Foreign Language Film category. We take a look at some
The reel deal
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/10/2012
» From the first Indian movie to Satyajit Ray and a recent corporate thriller, the many faces of Indian cinema are to be splashed on Bangkok screens _ with Thai subtitles and free of charge.
Beyond fleeting images
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/04/2012
» American photographer Ralph Gibson has peered into the viewfinder for over 50 years, and there's no reason for him to stop doing it. In Bangkok recently to chair a workshop hosted by Le Meridien, the 72-year-old Gibson _ still amazingly crisp and nimble _ coached and worked with nine photographers from around Asia handpicked by the hotel's cultural programmer, Jerome Sans. The exhibition of their photos, titled "A Look Through Bangkok", is now on show at The Hub, Le Meridien's space dedicated to art and cultural showcase.
Heeding the call of history
Muse, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/02/2012
» It is one of those sensational, semi-stupid questions that a journalist sometimes cannot summon his wit and restraint from asking: Would she, Michelle Yeoh, have made the same decision as the character she plays, Aung San Suu Kyi?