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Showing posts with label classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classics. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Cannes premiere set for Santi-Vina, a film misplaced for 60 years

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A scene from Santi-Vina, via the Film Archive (Public Organization) Thailand. Long considered an unattainable "Holy Grail" of...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Bangkok Asean Film Festival review: Manila in the Claws of Light, Bitcoins Heist

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The titan of Filipino cinema, Lino Brocka, always focused on the unfairly exploited working class. His gripping 1975 picture, Manila in t...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Restored Santi-Veena to screen in Cannes Classics

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Turns out there will be a Thai film at this year's Cannes Film Festival after all. It will be the newly restored Thai romantic dram...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Salaya Doc review: The Scala

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Note: An encore screening of The Scala  has just been added to the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival. It's at  noon on S...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Festival, festival! Forgotten masters in Vesoul

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Rarely shown classic Thai films, some that were believed to be lost, will be shown in next month's International Film Festival of Asi...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

In Thai cinemas: Pantai Norasingh, Snap continues

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Before his name become synonymous with a brand of shrimp paste , Pantai Norasingh was known as a man who kept his word. As the story go...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

In Thai cinemas: World Film Fest, Father and Son, Love Next Door 2, Tiger Women, Sang Sudthai Khong E-Hien

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The 13th World Film Festival of Bangkok is upon us, opening to the public on Saturday and running until November 22 at SF World Cinema ...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

From World War I to Love of Siam, 25 Thai films added to historical registry

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The Siamese Military in the First World War Another 25 titles have been added to the growing list of “Films as National Heritage” by th...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Art review: Chulayarnnon Siriphol's Behind the Painting

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If Chulayarnnon Siriphol's Behind the Painting were a mechanical drawing, the current art exhibition of his short film would be the ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

In Thai cinemas: Mae Bia

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Giant snake aside, it's the same old story with veteran director ML Bandevanop "Mom Noi" Devakula, who adapts yet another well...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Classic Thai poster for The Fierce One, aka Jaws of the Dragon

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Question came in from a reader today about a mystery Thai poster of a Hong Kong action movie, 1974's The Fierce One . And so I tu...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

In Thai cinemas: Y/our Music, F. Hilaire, The Scar International Version

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Urban and city beats blend in the tuneful documentary Y/our Music , which finally comes to Bangkok cinemas this week after a spin on the ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Thai culture comes to Piccadilly in the Thai Film Festival U.K.

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Thailand's Ministry of Culture is bringing seven recent films to London in the Thai Film Festival U.K. , which runs from June 25 to 27...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Review: Phi Ha Ayodhaya (The Black Death)

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Directed by MR Chalermchatri Yukol Starring Phongsakon Mettarikanon, Sonya Singha, Gandhi Wasuvitchayagit, Arpa Bhivalai, Tonpon Mahat...