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Conceptual reality
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/01/2014
» It is ill-fated irony that an art exhibition which is probably most relevant to the current political havoc is unable to be viewed because of that havoc itself.
Curtain draws on cinematic history
Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/01/2014
» In 1905, a Japanese entrepreneur, T Watanabe, set up Siam's first permanent cinema in Bangkok. It was called "Japanese Cinema", and later "Royal Japanese Cinema" after it had been granted royal permission to display the government seal.
Thanks Chin, Taweesak for making history
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/10/2013
» In a world of instant video clips and on-demand visual recordings - just draw your smartphones and start shooting, like gun-slingers - it's hard to recall a time when documenting events in moving images was a feat.
The horrror
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 02/08/2013
» Often, movies designed to inspire dread end up worse: dreadful. Fright becomes an urge to flight, and "horror" seeps like poisonous rays from the screen and becomes descriptive not of the genre but of the ongoing experience while remaining seated in that dark coffin of a cinema. Horrible is more like it.
Our man in Ramadan
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/07/2013
» In a recent episode of a television show he's hosting, Mohammad Shareef takes his viewers on a tour of Bangkok's Chinatown. After walking around and showing us the area's attractions _ in a similar format to most variety programmes on Thai TV _ Mohammad proceeds to the show's next highlight: an ancient mosque in the middle of the capital's Chinese neighbourhood, where the host joins the congregation in an afternoon prayer. The muezzin's call, the Koran recital and the solemn rite in the mosque are all parts of the programme.
There's no truth, There's only cinema
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/05/2013
» Cambodian director Rithy Panh's new documentary film pays tribute to and questions the power of image. With a tender, evocative and self-reflective tone, the film is about images that can be shown and that cannot, that should be seen and that should not, that are lost and that are found, that are touchable and that are invisible, that are ethically dubious and that are movingly, irredeemably personal.
In her environment
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/04/2013
» MR Narisa Chakrabongse, great-granddaughter of King Rama V and daughter of Prince Chula Chakrabongse (whose story is on our front page today), runs one of Thailand's most respected publishing houses. Her River Books has brought out several books on Southeast Asia that have earned admiration for their keen sense of social history, past and present.
Censors lift border spats doco ban
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/04/2013
» The government censorship board yesterday lifted its ban on a documentary film on Thai-Cambodian border conflicts, citing a "technical mistake" on its part.
Ban on film 'Boundary' lifted
Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/04/2013
» The government censorship board on Thursday lifted its ban on a documentary film on Thai-Cambodia border conflicts, citing a "technical mistake" on its part.