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Don't go looking for Yourgods
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/06/2012
» As usual, no one refers to aliens as aliens in alien movies. In Ridley Scott's Prometheus, aliens are "engineers", "makers", "it", "God" (the Christian one), "foreign bodies" and aptly, "weapon of mass destruction".
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For the people, of the people
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/06/2012
» The current buzzword is Asean, and while the cultural and linguistic differences of the 10 Southeast Asian nations present a series of hurdles to the planned 2015 economic union, everyone wants to move fast and ride the headwind.
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Mean streets
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/06/2012
» Director Kongkiat Khomsiri's professed love for Martin Scorsese's mean-street movies is evident, beyond all doubts, in his new film Anthapan (The Hooligan). Think Goodfellas, with the 1950s Bangkok substituting New York's Little Italy, and an ingenuous Thai rookie replacing Ray Liotta. But then, we also see Chinese triads, brutal knife fights, Western-style shootout, the reference to Field Marshall Sarit's coup d'etat and the rise of the police as the force more wicked than the mafia _ and Kongkiat's film is a melange of influence, style, and politics.
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Finding ways to make their market
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/06/2012
» Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit admits he's an impatient person.
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Finding Freedom
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/06/2012
» Eighty years ago, on June 24, 1932, the People's Party seized power and transformed Siam from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional democracy. A film crew recorded the historic revolution of that day on 35mm film, and the "movie" went on tour around Bangkok cinemas.
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The singing Manohra
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/06/2012
» The mythical Manohra _ the half-bird, half-woman creature of desirable beauty _ will have to do more than just looking desirable in the latest adaptation of the chadaka folk story. She will also have to sing a choral line, then do a little dancing.
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Insect in the backyard!
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/06/2012
» The new Spider-Man is a cocky high schooler on a skateboard, a tad pompous and narcissistic, largely unperturbed by the preternatural power that allows him to leapfrog, shoot webs and climb walls. Once aware of his superheroism, he demonstrates it on a school's basketball court, slam-dunking the hoop and shattering the backboard into pieces _ to the eye-popping awe of his former bully. It helps that Andrew Garfield plays Peter Parker; he's not a depressed teenager who broods over the great responsibility that comes with great power, as Tobey Maguire's arachnoid Peter Parker did in the Sam Raimi-directed trilogy that began in 2002.
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Poster boy
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/07/2012
» Santi Tuntipantarux unfolds an Apocalypse Now poster and points at the wrinkles and creases. They appear at the bottom, just below Marlon Brando's stern, slightly demented countenance. But the folds are not marks of imperfection - they are proof of authenticity.
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Mind trip
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/07/2012
» Eric Packer is a brilliant currency trader, played with scowls and smirks by Robert Pattinson. In David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, adapted from Don DeLillo's novel of the same name, Eric, in pursuit of the plummeting yuan (it's yen in the book) and a haircut, rides across Manhattan in his dazzlingly white stretch limo, long as a coffin, noiseless as the interior of a whale. The world is crumbling around him; the anarchists are parading a huge rat statue around and a Time Square screen summons up Marx. It's a protest against the future, says one character. On TV, the IMF chief is seen being stabbed in the eye by an attacker in North Korea.
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Encouraging bibliophilia, by any device
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/07/2012
» The jokes, mostly mean, have already been rampant. Bangkok is designated by Unesco as the World Book Capital for next year. The chorus has already sung: REALLY? But as professional purveyors of text, we're gladdened, emboldened, optimistic, dancing half-naked, the dream of selling more copies of this glorious newspaper and perhaps a bigger bonus already swimming in our head. The smell of success is sweetest when it's mixed with ink, or maybe, e-ink.
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