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Finding salvation for the South
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/02/2017
» When Muhammad Anwar bin Ismael Hajiteh was released on Jan 7 on a royal pardon, activists and civic groups in the deep South greeted the news with jubilation.
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Friends through the years
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 02/10/2017
» From the exchanging of envoys to the bond between the two monarchies, from a Thai football star in J-League to a Japanese actor in a major Thai movie, from Thai liquor to Japanese dessert, Japan and Thailand have treasured a relationship that has strengthened, politically and culturally, in recent years.
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Court cites national security to extend 'Shakespeare' ban
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/08/2017
» The Administrative Court yesterday rejected the complaint filed by the filmmakers of Shakespeare Must Die in which they asked for the ban on the film to be lifted, thereby extending a ban that has already lasted five years.
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Melancholic, dissonant memories
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/10/2015
» Jakrawal Nilthamrong's Vanishing Point is a story of loss, death, alternative destinies and reminiscence of sadness. It floats a few inches above the ground, it connects, disconnects and reconnects lives and fates, sometimes in a dissonant manner, and even though you may scratch your head wondering what exactly is going on, the film's semi-experimental style and narrative rupture has a strange intoxication.
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Chuga-Chug! Here come the zombies!
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/08/2016
» Zombies overrunning a high-speed train, what more could you ask for.
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Buppha, no banshee feminist
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/05/2016
» You always need to lower your guard and embrace a dose of silliness to enjoy a Thai horror-comedy, sometimes neither a horror nor a comedy. Buppha Arigato, the new film in the Buppha series of movies that were hits in the early 2000s, requires you to not just lower your guard, but to discard it altogether and embrace the mess, the wackiness and mostly the misfired jokes. Some will enjoy the film's rare moments of hilarity, and I sincerely congratulate you. Otherwise, the old Buppha cine-legend has melted out spectacularly in the Japanese snow.
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Mongkut, reinterpreted
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/03/2015
» When Arin Rungjang learned of the art heist near Paris earlier this month, the Thai artist had good reason to feel concerned. At dawn on March 1, thieves broke into a high-security wing of the Chateau de Fontainebleau and made off with 15 priceless works of Asian art, including Phra Maha Mongkut Longya, a replica of a royal crown studded with rubies, pearls, emerald and diamonds. It was one of several royal tributes presented to Emperor Napoleon III by King Rama IV in 1861.
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Bowie, in film
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/01/2016
» A shape-shifter on stage, David Bowie naturally found a new home in acting. Over the past 40 years, the late performer starred in many films -- though acting seemed more like another one of his experimental projects -- working with top directors such as Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan and the late Tony Scott, and playing roles from vampire and wizard, to alien and Andy Warhol (in Basquiat, a biopic of the artist by Julian Schnabel). It would be impossible to list them all, so here are my five picks on Bowie's screen performances.
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Gosling's directorial debut misses mark
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/01/2016
» Last year when Ryan Gosling premiered his directorial debut Lost River at Cannes Film Festival, the chorus of boos, ridicule and cynical derision flooded the post-screening tweets and reviews. "Crapocalypse", some succinctly quipped, plus "insufferably conceited" and "folie de grandeur". Referring to Gosling's previous film as an actor, critic Jonathan Romney tweeted: "Let's see [if] God forgives this."
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Sleep, dreams, splendour
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/01/2016
» In Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new film, the ghosts are awake and the people are asleep. A war is being fought, but that war is invisible. Above the ground, soldiers are sleeping. Underneath, an ancient graveyard hums. At the centre of it all is a middle-aged lady, her leg damaged, her dreams interrupted, her memory luminous. She stares into the past, or maybe the future, and what she glimpses, in that limbo between sleep and life, is a cemetery of splendour.
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