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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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Godzilla's nuclear power
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/08/2012
» From the depths of the radioactive ghetto comes the iconic monster. The Japanese calls it Gojira _ Godzilla to the rest of us. A stomping, fire-breathing post-dinosaur mutant, the beast in fact carries under its skin a horde of cultural and historical meanings, mostly horrific, and largely rooted in the nuclear bombings that left Japan devastated after World War II.
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Closely observed study In Contrasts
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/09/2012
» In the ever-stormy sea of independent film-making, every ingenue goes through the same cycle of dreaming, hoping, fund-hunting. If the dream and the hope can be kept alive, they finish the film and then starting hoping all over again _ this time for the chance to get it released.
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Temple fair in the clouds
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2012
» Prayers in Paragon Hall. New iPad apps on meditation centres. A haunted house in which earthly desires stalk you like inexorable ghosts. A "dharma boy band" of singers interpreting their tunes through the spiritual looking glass. Then monks as film programmers picking movies that discuss virtues and vices in diverse voices. In short, Buddhism in a new setting: Buddhism in a mall.
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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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Remembering the Manifesto
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/05/2012
» 'The old film is dead. We believe in the new one."
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Berlinale, it's a wrap
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/02/2012
» In Berlin last weekend, Roman inmates performed Shakespeare and won the Golden Bear, the year's first major prize in world cinema handed out at Europe's premiere film festival. Decking the sidebar awards were a Hungarian movie about violence against gypsies, a poignant East-West German drama, a rapturously eccentric Portuguese black-and-white film, while the only Asian title to score was a Chinese epic set during the last days of imperial rule. It was the usual distribution of honours to cover every base by the jury led by Mike Leigh (and including Jake Gyllenhaal and Charlotte Gainsbourg).
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