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    Corona and the death of cinema (again)

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/03/2020

    » "Cinema is an invention without a future," said Louis Lumiere who, along with his brother Auguste, invented the Cinematographe in 1895. From its birth, cinema was convinced of its own death. From the very beginning, cinema predicted its own eventual demise. And that was before the two world wars, the advent of home video, laser disc, DVDs, Blu-rays, terrorism, mass shootings, Netflix, and now the coronavirus, the latest scourge that has sealed shut cinema houses around the world.

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    Shooting star

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/12/2017

    » In Europe, the angle at which sunlight hits Earth is lower than in Thailand, says Sayombhu Mukdeeprom. In Europe, he explains, the air also has less humidity, meaning the suffusion of colour in the light is more intense.

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    Vivid homage to a bygone celluloid era

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/10/2014

    » Once upon a time, before hard drives, film was film — meaning 35mm celluloid strips that stored atomised images transformed into moving pictures by light. The picture houses that showed film, too, were once stand-alone palaces of dreams populated by dreamers who fed on the riches of shadows, and staffed by projectionists with their whirring, beastly machines.

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