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Chula asks us Lido-lovers to feel the pain
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/03/2012
» Alarmed and despondent, readers have sent feedback to me regarding last week's column on the forthcoming demise of the Lido Theatre. For a second, I thought I had struck my Kony moment, though I'd promised I'd never end up the same way as that video-maker who was caught naked, drunk, and allegedly performing al fresco masturbation just days after his socially-conscious campaign had gone viral. Don't let the urge to save the world short-circuit your head, that's the lowdown.
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Troubled Territories
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/02/2013
» The Preah Vihear conflict and the heartache of democracy are the themes of two new Thai films set to premier at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival this week.
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Of love and meltdown
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/10/2013
» Last year a Thai movie won the top prize at the Busan International Film Festival, Asia's leading cinema event. This year, two new home-grown films are in the competition _ here's a first look.
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A decade at House
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/06/2014
» House has been a home for small films — small in Thailand at least — for the past 10 years. In a city where stand-alone cinemas are listed as a severely endangered species, the boutique theatre House in the RCA strip (of all places) is a welcome anomaly in the scene dominated by neon-splashed multiplexes that dictate the popular taste of the whole country.
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That's entertainment!
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/12/2014
» The year in Thai movies, music and theatre
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The big picture: prizes vs popularity
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/03/2015
» When Birdman won Best Picture at the Academy Awards last week, a New York Times headline read: "Oscars show growing gap between moviegoers and Academy", referring to the fact that a small, semi-art-house film that wasn't seen by many people received the industry's highest honour. The article goes on to quote film historian Philip Hallman, who says "most people have to finally accept that the Oscars have become elitist and not in step with anything that is actually popular".
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The force is strong with this one
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/12/2015
» This Thursday, the sequel of Star Wars will monopolise cinemas around the world. According to most predictions by box office pundits, the space opera conceived nearly 40 years ago will be the year's biggest blockbuster, not to mention a perpetuation of one of pop culture's greatest mythologies.
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Bangkok as their creative canvas
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 02/02/2016
» Artists from the 2nd Bukruk Urban Arts Festival have finished turning the drab concrete walls of Bangkok's buildings into brightly-coloured paintings. Over the last week, they got on cranes and put their rollers on many dust-stained buildings around Charoenkrung neighbourhood to create murals, from mid-size to huge, an unprecedented visual intervention in the city where the writing on the wall is often limited to miserable vandalism and obscure references to rival schools.
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Scala doc to open film festival
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/03/2016
» Our cinematic monument of majesty, the last palatial cinema house in town, the Scala on Siam Square stands alone in defiance and melancholy as a remnant of a different era. As its fate -- the spectre of eventual demolition -- keeps popping up in the news every few years, the movie house is now the subject of a documentary film. The Scala, directed by Aditya Assarat, is part of a pan-Asia ensemble called The Power Of Asian Cinema that will screen as the opener of the 6th Salaya International tomorrow.
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Vote displays regime's new take on reality
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/07/2016
» Gabriel Garcia Marquez said it best: "When you reach absolute power, there is no contact with reality.""A powerful person, a dictator, is surrounded by interests and people whose final aim is to isolate him from reality."
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