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Night hasn't yet fallen
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/08/2012
» Ying Liang first heard he couldn't go home when he called his mother in China. He was then in South Korea, and soon the news was confirmed by the police: should he set foot back in Shanghai, where his family lives, the film-maker will face arrest.
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Unabashed mayhem
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/08/2012
» As hype about the Asean economic link-up grows frenetic _ even though nobody is quite sure what that pipe dream might entail _ let's savour the coughed-up blood, the fevered sweat and the rabid, slaughterhouse smell of a film from a fellow Asean member state.
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Globally Thai
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/08/2012
» Because the path of art isn't a straight line, the idea of art history as a linear progression _ from traditional to contemporary, from painting to video, chronologically from the 1950s to the 2010s _ sometimes leaves certain roads untravelled, certain stones unturned, and certain views unexplored.
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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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Possessed of little novelty
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 31/08/2012
» It's a given: Characters in horror films are programmed to behave as if, during their entire lives, they had never laid eyes on a single horror film.
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A travelling man's literary map
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/09/2012
» Affable Bhanu Maneevatanakul is a writer with several travel books to his name. The most recent is called Dokmai Nok Suan, a collection of stories about his experiences on the road and the people he met along the way. He's also in the process of putting together Kafae Khong Khon Arab Lae Aharn Khong Khon Uen ("Coffee for Arabs, Food for the Rest"), his thoughts and reflections on food from different parts of the world.
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On the read
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/09/2012
» In an internal memorandum at Viking Press dated Oct 20, 1953, consulting editor Malcolm Cowley wrote of his impressions and concerns regarding Jack Kerouac's then-unpublished On The Road: "I think it is the great source document of life among the beat or hip generation. Faults: the author is solemn about himself and about Dean. Some of his best episodes would get the book suppressed for obscenity. But I think there is a book here that should and must be published."
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Learning from the glorious US election circus
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/09/2012
» Naturally, I can't vote either for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. I have no stakes, at least not a direct, constitutional one, in the upcoming US presidential election. I don't play stocks (that's the verb right, "to play"?) so the number of new jobs created in the US that gets reported sometimes with panic and sometimes with relief has nothing to do with my financial well-being. I never lived in the US _ the longest stretch I spent in that country was a seven-day work trip. In short, American politics and especially American elections shouldn't have concerned me.
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Keeping things simple
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/09/2012
» Black and white, ghetto-dweller and chateau owner, soul music and Vivaldi, spontaneous and uptight, super fit and fatally frail, full of life and resigned to death _ the extremities go on, and on, and on, in the French film The Intouchables, a cultural sensation and France's highest-grossing film of last year. It's not hard to see why.
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A question of history
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/09/2012
» Atibhop Pataradetpisan believes in sound, in silence, and in literature _ not necessarily in that order. As a young man Atibhop studied classical composition at Tashkent State University in Uzbekistan. He came back to Thailand to teach music at Mahidol University, and in the meantime he wrote stories and poetry, some of which were collected into books.
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