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  • WORLD

    Omicron halts sports, entertainment: Covid world update

    AFP, Published on 06/01/2022

    » MELBOURNE: Australia vowed to deport tennis world number one Novak Djokovic on Thursday after he failed to meet stringent pandemic entry requirements, as Omicron's relentless march forced organisers to cancel the Grammys and Sundance Film Festival.

  • LIFE

    Art scene metamorphosis

    Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 23/10/2019

    » The third instalment of the biennial festival Unfolding Kafka, well-known for its rich and eclectic programmes of conceptual art interpreting the works of Franz Kafka, is returning to Bangkok and Chiang Mai again, running from Saturday (Oct 26) to Dec 15.

  • LIFE

    A sick man, on a tour of hospital hell

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/05/2021

    » The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu came out in 2005 and cemented the cinematic potency of the Romanian New Wave and their brand of droll, deadpan and relentlessly realistic movies about life in the ex-socialist state. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2005 and now, 16 years later, The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu is buried deep in the algorithm of Netflix. But it's there if you look, and I'm bringing it up today because its story of public healthcare apocalypse and accumulated absurdities experienced by a patient trying to find a hospital bed seems more timely, more wickedly serendipitous, than ever.

  • WORLD

    Wes Anderson, Norway teen massacre films lead Berlin fest race

    AFP, Published on 24/02/2018

    » BERLIN - Wes Anderson's "Isle of Dogs", an animated movie with political bite, and a controversial dramatisation of Norway's 2011 massacre of teenagers by a neo-Nazi gunman led the award favourites Saturday at the Berlin film festival.

  • LIFE

    Guru's Weekly Pick: Oct 20-26

    Life, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 19/10/2017

    » Every week, we sift through tonnes of activities, shows, art exhibitions and things to do. Here is our especially curated list of what's hot this week in Bangkok and beyond. Enjoy!

  • WORLD

    Almodovar slams Spanish media for exaggerating 'Panama Papers' role

    AFP, Published on 17/05/2016

    » CANNES (FRANCE) - Film director Pedro Almodovar accused the Spanish media Tuesday of exaggerating his role in the Panama Papers scandal as he screened his latest film "Julieta" at the Cannes film festival.

  • LIFE

    Sin and the art of redemptive violence

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015

    » Sitting in the courtyard of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke talks about violence _ the violence in his new movie that is riding a wave of critical favour at the world's biggest film festival, and the real violence back in his home country where the unstoppable motor of progress has brought on many changes, good and otherwise.

  • LIFE

    German comedy favoured to win top Cannes prize for woman director

    AFP, Published on 22/05/2016

    » CANNES - The Cannes film festival ends Sunday with a German comedy, a movie about a bus driver poet and a Romanian meditation on morality the favourites to lift its top prize, the Palme d'Or.

  • WORLD

    Cannes awards show global recognition for Asian cinema

    AFP, Published on 27/05/2013

    » A clutch of awards at the Cannes Film Festival has given global prominence to what insiders say is a bold era in Asian filmmaking, where China is emerging as a creative power.

  • WORLD

    Cannes apologises over high-heel furore

    AFP, Published on 20/05/2015

    » CANNES - The director of the Cannes Film Festival has apologised after a controversy blew up over women being denied access to the red carpet for not wearing high heels.

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