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Davos, Tokyo and clueless Tinglish
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/03/2012
» 'In general, every country has the language it deserves." So said Jorge Luis Borges, wordsmith, polyglot, a man fascinated by what letters and languages can do. Goethe, with his proto-Romantic genius, was much less kind when it comes to being monolingual: "Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."
Stone brings out the Savages
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/09/2012
» Oliver Stone's Savages is cheerfully cynical, ingloriously basked in the Malibu sunshine and fired up by threesome sex, super-bred cannabis and bong-water bravado. It's lurid, sexy, funny, chaotic, cluttered, and if the grisly violence turns you off then Blake Lively _ playing a very dumb blonde _ and her two beaus (plus John Travolta, pudgy and hilariously nervous) will also chip in laugh-out-loud moments, all the while with the director winking off-scene.
Storming oscar's language barrier
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/09/2012
» The end of September is when countries submit their representatives for the Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film, the only category the rest of the world can take part in for Hollywood's mostly self-celebratory awards show.
Screen queen
Muse, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/01/2013
» Firing off queries about beauty secrets is not what a male reporter, batting an eyelid, would normally do to a female subject. But since fact-checking is part of the job, let's get this done right from the beginning.
Everyone wins in the Thai PBS royalty debate. Right?
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/03/2013
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Give it up for the ghost
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/04/2013
» The lovelorn banshee has finally vanquished the antediluvian queen, with a little help from inflation. Though the number isn't official (it never is), it's safe to announce that Pee Mak Phra Khanong has become the highest-grossing movie ever released in Thailand, dethroning the once-invincible historical epic Suriyothai.
A look at the drawing board
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/08/2013
» At the D23 Expo last weekend in Anaheim, Rapunzel rubbed shoulders with Darth Vader as Minnie made friends with Captain America. Angelina Jolie swooped down as the horned, husky-voiced witch and John Goodman, last heard as Sully in Pixar's Monsters University, was declared a new legend. Attended by thousands of Disney fans, families and stars, D23 _ so named after the year that Walt Disney set up his studio in Hollywood _ was a biennial fan gathering and corporate expo where the creative vision of Walt and the entrepreneurial acumen of his organisation were celebrated, affirmed and expanded.
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.
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.
Thaksin worse than Hitler? Give us a break
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/01/2014
» It is a mighty stretch of the imagination, isn't it? It is a form of extremism, and extremism is what we're dealing with these days. Above all, it's history being twisted and trampled, all for the sake of bombastic triumphalism and jubilant schadenfreude.