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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.
Imitation, fantasy, flattery
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 28/05/2014
» Somewhere in Thailand stands a replica of the Trevi Fountain. Somewhere else in Thailand, Rodin’s The Thinker sits pondering his epic poem in front of the Gates of Hell.
'The Grandmaster' dominates Hong Kong Film Awards
AFP, Published on 14/04/2014
» Martial arts fantasy "The Grandmaster" enjoyed a bonanza Sunday with 12 wins at the Hong Kong Film Awards including best movie and best director for Wong Kar-wai.
'Grandmaster' wins 7 film awards
Associated Press, Published on 28/03/2014
» MACAU - "The Grandmaster" won best picture, best director for Wong Kar Wai and five other honors at the Asian Film Awards.
'The Grandmaster' sweeps Asian Film Awards, crew mourn stuntman
AFP, Published on 28/03/2014
» Martial arts fantasy "The Grandmaster" dominated the Asian Film Awards with seven wins including best movie, as its emotional director mourned the film's stuntman who was on the missing Malaysian jetliner.
'The Grandmaster' sweeps Asian Film Awards, crew mourn lost stuntman
AFP, Published on 28/03/2014
» Martial arts fantasy "The Grandmaster" dominated the Asian Film Awards on Thursday with seven wins including best movie, as its emotional director mourned the film's stuntman who was on the missing Malaysian jetliner.
Hollywood awaits Oscar nominations
AFP, Published on 16/01/2014
» Hollywood is holding its breath for the unveiling Thursday of this year's Oscar nominations, with top Golden Globes winners "12 Years A Slave" and "American Hustle" leading a crowded field of contenders.
Picks of the year
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/12/2013
» Like ravenous hunter-gatherers, we forage the thick forest of cinema and emerge with our pickings. Or maybe: like a mental patient, we plunge into the dark asylum of movie theatres in search of sanity, of light, of secrets. Most of the times we come out empty-handed, but the point, for madmen and women out there, is to keep looking.
A global two thumbs up
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/12/2013
» The year-end ritual is upon us again. The best-of lists and top-10s galore are here to put some sort of order into the vast and chaotic world of everything, especially movies. Some of these lists are treasure maps that point us to the underrated or the overlooked; others are confirmations of the obvious. All of them are out there for us to agree or disagree.
Singapore, Hong Kong films shine at Chinese 'Oscars'
AFP, Published on 23/11/2013
» Singaporean family drama "Ilo Ilo" was the surprise winner of the coveted best feature film prize at the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan Saturday while kung fu epic "The Grandmaster" scooped the most gongs at the Chinese-language "Oscars".