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Deep trouble
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/06/2018
» He got up close with a 13m whale shark near the Galapagos and swam with a curious hunchback whale in Tonga. "She was larger than a bus," he said, "the largest animal I've ever seen." At Burma Banks in the Indian Ocean, he drifted with sharks and at Similan Islands he realised that the coral reefs in the Thai seas were among the most beautiful in the world.
That precious gold statuette
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/02/2017
» The Oscars takes place Monday morning Thailand time. We pontificate and prognosticate the results
Much more than just animation
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/02/2017
» One of the year's best animated movies didn't come from Pixar and Disney. It's this little-heralded film from Michael Dudok de Wit, a Dutchman picked by Studio Ghibli to helm its first international co-production. La Tortue Rouge (The Red Turtle), which doesn't have that many screenings left now (why?), is a calm, quietly touching beauty, a fable about man, nature, family, the environment -- I don't know, life itself. It has no dialogue, just the sounds of wind and waves, the storm and the sea. It's not going to win the Oscar, for which it has been nominated, but not winning an Oscar is probably an even higher honour a good film can hope for.
Colourful journey into Thailand's soul
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/01/2017
» The train clangs ahead, moving people and dreams, as it has done since 1893. In Railway Sleepers, a minutely observed film shot entirely on-board a Thai train, we see kids on school trips, young men travelling north and south, hawkers selling food and horoscope books, families and lovers, vacationers who turn the sleeping car into a party venue. They're passengers, and they're also humans. They are, as director Sompot Chidgasornpongse says, a collection of faces that make up a portrait of Thailand.