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Big in Japan
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 09/11/2018
» The 31st Tokyo International Film Festival wrapped up last weekend, with French drama Amanda taking home the Tokyo Grand Prix and Best Screenplay awards. Director Mikhaël Hers' third feature, Amanda tells the story of a young man who cares for his orphaned niece following his sister's death in a delicate tale of familial love and how people cope with tragedy.
Tokyo stories
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 25/10/2018
» The 31st Tokyo International Film Festival opens today with a fine selection of films from East and West. Held at Roppongi Hills, TIFF, one of Asia's largest film fests, is serving up cinematic treats from Japan and around the world. Opening the festival is A Star Is Born, the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga musical romantic drama. Closing the festival on Nov 3 will be Japanese animation Godzilla: The Planet Eater, the final chapter of the animated monster trilogy.
Keeping the Field
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 30/04/2017
» Future Islands continue to churn out their signature blend of bittersweet urgency and melancholic earnestness on their new LP.
Look What Polycat Dragged In
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 03/04/2016
» Despite the telling title of their sophomore studio record, Polycat haven’t always been about creating the throwback sounds that hark back to the 1980s. Formerly called Ska Rangers, they started off as a ska cover band doing gigs in and around their stamping ground of Chiang Mai.
Animate now
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 30/10/2013
» More than 1,300 students and 450 projects entered the 7th Thailand Animation Contest 2013 (TAC), with St Francis Xavier Convent School securing first place in the secondary school category for the third time in a row. The school also took the second and third prizes.
The mother load
Life, Published on 17/09/2012
» Please Look After Mom is, let's be honest, a pretty silly title. But it'd be a shame if the awkward, maudlin title has lost Shin Kyung-sook any readers. Translated beautifully into English by Kim Chi-young, Shin's exploration of loss and regret won her the Man Asian Literary Prize last year _ the first time the prize has been awarded to a female novelist.
Hypnotic epic
Life, Plalai Faifa, Published on 02/03/2012
» Most of the mysteries referred to in the title are of the kind found in those immense, ultra-melodramatic serialised novels that kept 19th-century readers waiting for the next issue. The generous documentary extras included with this new release explain that the super-prolific Camilo Costelo Branco, whose 1854 serial novel Mysteries of Lisbon is adapted here, sometimes wrote these long-running, cliffhanging narratives. So here we have all of the mothers dead in childbirth, multiple identities, long-shot coincidences, crimes of passion, stories-within-stories-within-stories, and other tasty ingredients that make those books fun to read even today.