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It's just getting worse
News, Postbag, Published on 26/02/2018
» Kudos to Kong Rithdee and his highly perceptive comment, "Taking an axe to 'Land of Smiles'," on Feb 23.
Poor Barbie... Oppenheimer's the bomb
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/03/2024
» The annual guessing game to read the minds of inscrutable Oscars voters is here.
How streaming is changing film history
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 15/07/2022
» All film students or movie lovers are being called to join in a special lecture titled "Archive Fever: Film History In The Age Of Streaming" -- a talk By Kong Rithdee on July 21 at The Siam Society, Sukhumvit 21. Archives are historically related to human memory, and film archives, since the mid 20th century, have functioned as guardians and conservators not only of moving images, but also of memories, public and private. Now, the development of digital communication and media technology, such as the proliferation of YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, has turned the internet into a real-time vehicle for human experiences and memories. This has prompted the film archives to ponder their function and respond to new ways images and memories are recorded, stored, accessed and democratised by not any specific entity but by humanity as a whole.
10 films to watch out for
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2023
» A fierce hijab girl, a Vietnamese pilgrimage, a Scorsese-DiCaprio team up and a new Cate Blanchett drama, Cannes Film Festival opens today with an eclectic taste of world cinema.
Gay cowboys and glorious flesh
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/05/2023
» After the lukewarm opening film -- Maiwenn's Jeanne Du Barry, a fluffy costume drama starring Johnny Depp as King Louis XV -- the 76th Cannes Film Festival had its hottest ticket in a short film. Not just any short though: it's Pedro Almodovar's queer cowboy movie Strange Way Of Life, which saw patient festival-goers queuing up in the Rivera drizzle for nearly an hour to fill up even the worst seat of Salle Debussy on Wednesday.
Thai Film Archive recalls Uncle Boonmee
Life, Published on 28/05/2020
» To mark the 10th anniversary of the film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, and its historic Palme d'Or win at the Cannes Film Festival 2010, the Thai Film Archive is hosting a special live talk with director Apichatpong Weerasethakul to be broadcast at the archive's Facebook page, today at 4pm.
Korean spy film showing North-South relationship premiered
Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/05/2018
» CANNES, France: A South Korean spy thriller premiering at Cannes Film Festival this weekend arrives at the perfect moment. "The Spy Gone North", by director Yoon Jong-bin, recounts the real-life mid-1990s story of a South Korean secret agent sent to infiltrate the North in the hope of securing intelligence on the nuclear weapon and ending up contributing to the North-South unification effort. The film was screened in the Midnight section at Cannes, the world’s largest film festival that runs until Saturday.
Ghosts get an artistic interpretation
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/09/2018
» Maverick artist Korakrit Arunanondchai will preside over an assembly of ghosts in October.
When films speak louder than missiles
Oped, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/06/2025
» Jafar Panahi tells it as he sees it: "An attack on my homeland, Iran, is in no way acceptable," the Iranian filmmaker wrote on Instagram last week. "Israel has violated Iran and should be tried in an international trial as a war aggressor."
A Useful Ghost fills a vacuum at Cannes
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/05/2025
» What begins as comedy sometimes ends as horror. Or maybe: What begins as comedy sometimes ends as tragicomedy. Last Saturday, writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke presented Pee Chai Dai Kha (A Useful Ghost) at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, the sole Thai title in the festival.