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Cannes Film Fest opens today
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2017
» The 69th Cannes Film Festival opens today with Woody Allen's Cafe Society, and the world's most influential film festival will play out its drama until May 22. As the glamour and the art of cinema fill the airwaves, here are some of the talking points worthy of note as more reports from the Croisette will follow over the next 10 days.
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Once lost, now found
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2017
» The 69th Cannes Film Festival begins today in southern France with its usual fanfare. Regarded as the world's most prestigious event of cinema professionals, the festival celebrates film as art, commerce, glitz and as cultural treasure. Fittingly, this year Cannes has invited only one Thai film to screen in the Cannes Classics programme -- the recently discovered 1954 Santi-Vina, which was once thought to be lost and has now been restored to its celluloid glory.
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After Twilight
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2017
» The rain thankfully let up, Kristen Stewart arrived on the red carpet in a see-through black blouse, hair dyed blonde, lips pursed, and touching the shoulder of her director, Woody Allen, as they entered the Grande Theatre Lumiere to view Café Society, the opening film of the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
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At Cannes, humour makes a surprise visit
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2017
» Humour is hardly ever associated with Cannes competition films -- to win the Palme d'Or, for example, it's assumed a film should possess art house gravitas, serious humanity, or weighty, topical, discourse-stimulating subject matter (last year's winner, Dheepan, is about immigrants in Paris, and before that, the three-hour-long Turkish drama Winter Sleep).
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Manila in the claws of corruption
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2017
» The Philippines has just voted in a new president, the strongman Rodrigo Duterte who vows to "kill" all criminals in his country. So the film Ma' Rosa, the sole Southeast Asian entry in Cannes competition this year, couldn't have arrived in a timelier fashion. The new work by Brillante Mendoza -- the chronicler of Manila's sordid underbelly -- takes place in the working-class neighbourhood of that sweltering capital, infested by garbage, crime and barefaced corruption. Duterte may flaunt his iron-fistedness to win votes, but the reality as depicted in this film tells a more complex story of people trapped in the rickety state justice system.
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Judging the judges at Cannes
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2017
» There was a chorus of surprise when the 69th Cannes Film Festival last Sunday awarded its top prize to Ken Loach's welfare drama I, Daniel Blake -- because the film was largely absent from the critical radar during the 12-day festival. A bigger surprise (not to say disappointment) was when the second prize went to Xavier Dolan's melodrama It's Only The End Of The World, because the film was nearly unanimously disliked for its histrionics and theatrical conceits. When the jury, led by Mad Max director George Miller, gave the prize to Dolan's film, a joke sprang up and quickly caught on, inspired by the film's title: yes, for this film to be honoured by Cannes it is the end of the world, or the end of cinema. Apocalypse now!
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"Opportunity Thailand: Key to Thailand 4.0" Seminar and Exhibition
Published on 01/02/2017
» Enter a new era 2017 with an international seminar "Opportunity Thailand", organized by the Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) to show Thailand’s potential and readiness to become "Thailand 4.0".
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Tech vs Trump in immigration battle
Reuters, Published on 01/02/2017
» WASHINGTON - Technology companies based in the Washington state area on Tuesday announced their support for a lawsuit filed by the state against US President Donald Trump's travel ban.
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Regime presses Laos to deport dissidents
Published on 01/02/2017
» The military government wants neighbouring Laos to send back about half a dozen Thai citizens who have reportedly taken refuge there to escape being arrested for insulting the Thai monarchy, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
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Chinese billionaire disappears, China abduction feared
Reuters, Published on 01/02/2017
» HONG KONG - A missing China-born billionaire was quoted by state media on Tuesday as saying he had not been abducted from Hong Kong by mainland Chinese agents as some news outlets had reported but was receiving medical treatment.
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