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Rock-Solid Hollywood star
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/01/2012
» Last year in the hyperkinetic film Fast Five, Dwayne Johnson growled and grumbled playing the role of a federal agent chasing a pack of auto-bandits in Rio de Janeiro. Johnson, also known as The Rock, is a prime cut of beef that glitters in the Brazilian sun; yet the man holds his character with gravity, zipping through the breakneck action with all scowl and no smile.
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Embracing anonymity
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/02/2012
» Over the years it's become something of a cliche: Isabelle Huppert is a small woman who's built up an illustrious career by playing emotionally powerful roles _ roles so big in attitude that we tend to forget the size of the actress playing them. She's played Madame Bovary; she's played the amoral mother in a film based on a George Bataille novel; and she's probably best known to Thai audiences as the intensely masochistic Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher.
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Beyond fleeting images
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/04/2012
» American photographer Ralph Gibson has peered into the viewfinder for over 50 years, and there's no reason for him to stop doing it. In Bangkok recently to chair a workshop hosted by Le Meridien, the 72-year-old Gibson _ still amazingly crisp and nimble _ coached and worked with nine photographers from around Asia handpicked by the hotel's cultural programmer, Jerome Sans. The exhibition of their photos, titled "A Look Through Bangkok", is now on show at The Hub, Le Meridien's space dedicated to art and cultural showcase.
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The belief in art
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/04/2012
» Boonchai Bencharongkul gives us the lowdown on the artists he loves, and he loves so many of them. The usual suspects, to start with, and then something else. On the Surrealists, Magritte and Dali in particular, he likes the "fevered dream, the sense of distortion". On Modigliani, it's the "colour and the eye" that grab him. On Picasso: "a bitter gourd, it takes time to digest". On the Thai titan Thawan Duchanee: "a great fruit salad of spiritual deities". On Pratuang Emjaroen: "Pure". On Prateep Kochabua and his riotous vision of the netherworld: "His hell is big, much bigger than Bosch's. You have to see a Bosch up close. To see Prateep's, you step back, look up, and take it all in."
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Shine a light
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/04/2012
» The Apex lady, Nanta Tansacha, found herself in an uneasy spotlight two years ago when Siam Theatre was burned down, gutted by the May-hem flames to ashes and rubbish. "When I watched it burn, on TV, it was like I was watching a film," she told the Bangkok Post in June 2010. Now, Nanta has found herself in another nervous limelight _ another dramatic movie if you'd permit the analogy _ when news broke last month that Lido Theatre, and probably the stately Scala, too, might soon be razed to make way for new malls.
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Finding Freedom
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/06/2012
» Eighty years ago, on June 24, 1932, the People's Party seized power and transformed Siam from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional democracy. A film crew recorded the historic revolution of that day on 35mm film, and the "movie" went on tour around Bangkok cinemas.
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Globally Thai
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/08/2012
» Because the path of art isn't a straight line, the idea of art history as a linear progression _ from traditional to contemporary, from painting to video, chronologically from the 1950s to the 2010s _ sometimes leaves certain roads untravelled, certain stones unturned, and certain views unexplored.
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Epic Leap
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/09/2012
» The man is 52, and yet retains his youthful vibe. His dark-framed glasses, besides his bright face, are what help us recognise him. He shows up slightly late, as to be expected from a founder, top executive, chief brain and nerve centre of one of the country's most powerful showbiz companies. On his desk is a dish of egg tarts, his choice sweet. He smiles and invites us to join him. Outside the office window of Workpoint Entertainment stretches out the vast, dry, flat, skyscraper-less expanse of Pathum Thani.
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Out of Isan
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/10/2012
» In the Northeastern province of Khon Kaen, a young man returns home from Bangkok and the ghosts, dust, dreams and unrequited romance of his past visit him. Meanwhile, the television reports on the convulsive riots in the capital fuelled by, among other things, the bottled hurt and long-locked anger of the Isan populace.
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Highlight reel
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/12/2012
» Critics are not saboteurs, though sometimes we can be. I do not dream about movies _ there are more pleasant and sexier subjects _ and I enjoy Brave and The Avengers and The Expendables 2 and The Amazing Spider-man as much the average boy in your next seat. There are only movies I (or you) like and that I (or you) don't like, and if one day, I hope not soon, you put me in the ring at Lumpini Boxing Stadium, gloved, gagged, naked, oiled, and beat me up to pay for my ignorance, then let it be. But at least today in this traditional year-end pondering, please allow me to talk about movies that you mightn't have seen.
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