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    Celebrating Nordic cinema

    Life, Published on 23/09/2019

    » A selection of eight movies from four Nordic countries will be presented at the "Nordic Film Festival 2019", taking place at Quartier CineArt, 4th floor of EmQuartier, Sukhumvit Road, from Friday to Sunday.

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    Girls just wanna make movies

    Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 08/03/2019

    » The movie industry has always been a men's club. Take a look at Hollywood. Last year, only 8% of the top 250 grossing films in the US domestic box office were directed by women. And though no official statistics are available, the Thai movie scene has also long been a male-dominated campsite.

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    Mozart's music at the movies

    Life, Published on 19/02/2019

    » For fans of classical music, this is a rare chance to see a movie about one of the most prolific and influential composers of the classical era, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while having his most celebrated works performed live at the same time. Amadeus Live will be held on Feb 22-23 at Prince Mahidol Hall, Mahidol University, Salaya campus in Nakhon Pathom.

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    Movies shine light on dark Thai truths

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/12/2017

    » Last week, I watched a South Korean film called A Taxi Driver. Based on a true story, it's the account of a cabby who secretly drove a German journalist to cover the 1980 pro-democracy demonstration in Gwangju, a dramatic uprising that toppled Maj General Chun Doo-hwan, the ruler of the country at the time.

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    Check out these documentaries of disaster

    Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 28/03/2023

    » Following the disappearance of a caesium-137 tube, the discovery of radiated red dust in a metal foundry in Prachin Buri has sparked fear of contamination of radioactive substances in the environment. I've picked some documentaries and films that portray the man-made impact of radiation on communities.

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    Real life can't really mimic the movies

    News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/05/2016

    » In the final scene of the Oscar-winning road movie, Thelma & Louise, the two desperate housewives and fugitives look at one another and hold hands. "Let us keep going." "What do you mean?" "Go!" "You sure?" Then, they hit the gas of the 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible classic and fly off the cliff.

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    Top 10 movies led by Moonlight, La La Land

    Life, Published on 19/12/2016

    » [1] Moonlight. The life of Chiron, the young man who grows up in three distinct chapters in Barry Jenkins' masterpiece, is hard and full of pain. And yet Moonlight is so abundant with transcendent moments of grace and lyrical splendour. In the film's blue-tinged darkness shines a tortured soul, one of the most intimately and fully realised ones I can remember encountering in a movie.

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    A tasty alternative to movies-as-usual

    Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 15/09/2016

    » Finding alternative, independent films amidst mainstream Hollywood blockbusters in Thai cinemas can often feel like finding a needle in a haystack. The selection is small. Screening times, often at odd hours, are limited. And those living outside of Bangkok -- far away from the arthouse spots like Lido and House RCA -- can't help but wonder: "Don't I have anything else to watch but Sully, Don't Breathe and Shin Godzilla this week?".

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    Pirated music, movies seized at border market

    Nopparat Kingkaew, Published on 12/03/2015

    » Four Cambodian women were arrested and over 34,000 pirated CDs, VCDs and DVDs of music seized from four vending stalls at a border market in Surin province on Thursday, said police.

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    Gang economics in Hollywood movies reeks of fraudulence

    News, Stephen Carter, Published on 29/09/2015

    » In politics, it's the silly season: sound bites and scandals, gotchas and gaffes. Policy is hardly discussed at any level more complex than name-calling. No better time, then, to take oneself off to the multiplex and seek distraction. I saw both of last weekend's top-grossing films, Black Mass and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. The two turn out to have a commonality not entirely unrelated to our political moment: Both leave unclear the economics behind the worlds they're seeking to create for us.

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