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A tale of wise men, fools and Facebook
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/05/2014
» The camouflaged iceberg hit the already punctured Titanic, and we mistook it for a lifeboat. I wasn’t on the ship when it happened; I learned about it, naturally, from Facebook, Twitter and Line. If social media had a smell, it would smell like dust and rotting fruit (or to some, flowers). More likely it would smell like napalm in the morning, as Robert Duvall said in that film. It would smell like fear mistaken for the stench of victory.
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Ready to launch
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/11/2013
» Officially and conceptually, this is an Australian film. Linguistically and thematically, it is a Lao one, while practically and physically, it is very much Thai. Never mind nationality, a good film is a good film. And in a dream that seems wild but certainly not the wildest, The Rocket is perhaps good enough (it has to be lucky enough too) to make it to the shortlist for the best foreign language Oscar, which means the Lao and Thai actors, along with the Australian filmmakers, will get to saunter down the famous red carpet in Los Angeles next February to present this lovely film.
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Cream of the cinematic crop
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/11/2013
» Here we go again. The 11th World Film Festival of Bangkok kicks off tonight with The Rocket, and over the next 10 days more than 50 films will be made available for your perusal at SF World Cinema at Central World.
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We can teach China a few cyber cop tricks
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/08/2013
» Send me gifts of Line stickers. Brown, Cony, Mickey, Monsters University, Kerokerokeroppi, whatever - faster, before the tech-savvy Thai police spoil the party and shut the chat down.
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When one-eyed censorship rules the airwaves
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 31/08/2013
» Thai television continues to inspire sadness and nausea, to the point that sometimes we envy Cyclops and Captain Hook, with all their one-eyed oblivion.
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'Blue' gives us all a glimpse of possibility
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/06/2013
» On the screen, the two women made love with such passionate intensity that the whole cinema was stunned into silence. The rubbing of flesh, the whispering, the discovery of physical longitudes and uncharted territories, went on with a sense of longue duree, so long that the initial giggling from some of the audience was hushed by the realisation that this was an attempt to display love, and not just titillating same-sex sex.
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Paranoia, politics mute Thai cinema
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/07/2013
» When there is not a ghost film making headlines by raking in a whopping billion baht at the box-office, movie news in this country is often about censorship, which stalks certain filmmakers like a serial killer. This week we have two such news items, both under-reported, and both concerning the larger issue of media freedom. Let's take a look.
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Talentless show exposes our cultural sadism
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/06/2013
» We thought television couldn't sink any lower, but somehow it did.
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Censors lift border spats doco ban
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/04/2013
» The government censorship board yesterday lifted its ban on a documentary film on Thai-Cambodian border conflicts, citing a "technical mistake" on its part.
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An online cacophony
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/05/2013
» In the ante-Facebook, pre-Twitter, afore-social network era, how did you hurl insults at your enemies? Let me paraphrase, how did you publicise your hatred of someone, the hatred so unforgiving to that person's soul and maybe to your own? In other words, how did you call him/her names in public for the full humiliating effect _ the humiliation of that person and maybe, again, that boomerangs to hit you?
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