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Germany reckons with Wagner
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 24/04/2022
» Few composers inspire such a mix of appreciation and disgust as Richard Wagner. Especially in Germany -- where Wagner's work is understood as a combination of national cultural jewel and national political embarrassment -- the composer's work is laden with meaning and interpretation.
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Hot-shot director Waititi shares indigenous humor in 'Reservation Dogs'
AFP, Published on 07/08/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Long before he won an Oscar or directed a Marvel superhero blockbuster, Taika Waititi had a recurring problem while making movies about his native Maori community in New Zealand.
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Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win Literature Nobels
AFP, Published on 10/10/2019
» STOCKHOLM: Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk on Thursday won the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize, which was delayed over a sexual harassment scandal, while Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke took the 2019 award, the Swedish Academy said.
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Quentin's Hollywood, circa 1969
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/09/2019
» Not everything ended in the year 1969. Not every sunshiny starlet died gruesomely in her own Cielo Drive villa at the hands of crazed hippies. And not every potbellied actor, fading cowboy and washed-up stunt double bit the Hollywood dust kicked up by the changing of the guard and the closing of that heady decade. Not, at least, in Quentin Tarantino's affectionate, good-humoured, and surprisingly elegiac film about Hollywood and its oddball residents.
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Art and coup: Four years and counting
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 23/05/2018
» Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the May 2014 coup d'etat. While it continues to underpin the political landscape, the coup also sparked an unprecedented rise in Thai artworks with political messages. A new political art exhibition took place almost every month since May 2014.
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The 'scene', in all its glory
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 28/12/2017
» It was a busy year for Thai theatre. Life highlights a few trends and picks the best productions of 2017
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Desolation row
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/08/2016
» Ripping through lonesome plains and highway desolation, two Texan brothers set out to rob banks that, technically, have been robbing their family for years. Tanner and Toby (Ben Foster and Chris Pine) are siblings at different ends of the spectrum: the first a wild coyote, a jittery flask of criminal energy; the second a melancholic fox, handsome, sad and serious.
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Human rights still in second place to 'Asian values'
News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 22/11/2015
» Earlier this year, a famous global weekly published an article titled “Asian Values”. Basically, it was delving into the longevity of various successful dynasties in the Asian region. Such is the debate in 2015.
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Romance among the ruins
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/09/2014
» Love is a crumbling currency in the wistful, strangely affecting Pavang Rak (Concrete Clouds). Set in 1997, during the economic meltdown that burst our bubble and left urban carcases of unfinished skyscrapers, the film remembers the emotional inertia of that year and watches its characters drift like ghosts as they realise that even love — of all the catastrophes — can't give them salvation. There's voluptuous despair. There's a full cabinet of 1990s pop-cultural reminiscence, and there's the filmmaker's awkward strive to reconcile the narrative flow with his experimental impulses — and yet here's a Thai film that's as tender as it is bold. It's also a film about the mood (and not necessarily the actualities) of that fateful, uneasy moment of 17 years ago when the market crashed and our sense of the future dashed.
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War and peace
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 25/08/2014
» In what Susan Sontag would refer to as the democratisation of the human experience through photography, the exhibition "Something To Talk About" presents moments in the Deep South that have largely been overlooked by news media — moments of peace.
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