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  • To show or not to show

    27/08/2010 : The posters on the skytrain columns show slim legs with a woman's underwear sliding down down a hitched-up skirt. The trailer in the cinema shows sultry, pre-coitus tantalisation and, among others, a young man ogling the sweaty cleavage of his girlfriend and saying, quite nicely: ''Can I touch your breasts?'' Though no strategic parts are visible, the teaser of the new Thai movie Namtal Daeng, or Brown Sugar, makes an open promise that the story will be about sex, and perhaps love.

  • DVD ADDICT A compelling story of stasis

    27/08/2010 : Modern Italian writing includes among its treasures a special category of writer whose eccentric, fantasy-laced, often philosophical fiction is engrossing enough to turn any casual reader who happens on it into an addict. Italo Calvino is probably the best known of them outside Italy, but even devoted fans of his work may still be unaware of the similarly habit-forming writings by authors like Tommaso Landolfi, Giorgio Manganelli, Anna Maria Ortese, and a personal favourite, Dino Buzzati.

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  • MOVIE Review

    Lucrative lovesickness

    27/08/2010 : - Guan Muen Ho (Hello Stranger)

  • SCREENINGS

    Short film fest kicks off

    27/08/2010 : The opening ceremony took place yesterday evening, and now the 14th Thai Short Film and Video Festival is swinging into top gear.

  • Ananda everingham on movies, politics and becoming a Thai

    22/08/2010 : How does one even start to account for the myriad contradictions of Ananda Everingham? He is one of Thailand's most beloved screen actors, but his mother is from Laos and his father Australia. He considers himself a characteristically shy person, which flies in the face of his penchant for landing leading roles in big-budget thrillers and epic romances.

  • Riding the Korean wave

    13/08/2010 : It's sheer wonder why Southeast Asian teens scream at Korean stars. Is it because kids in eternally-developing nations are sensitive to the temptation of manufactured pop machines, or is it because South Korea's state policy is to overpower us with their cultural commodities? Or is it just because of those spiky hairstyles, those insufferable mullets?

  • White across the land

    13/08/2010 : On Aug 16, 1945, Pridi Banomyong declared peace _ Peace _ at the end of World War II and redeemed Siam from the scourge of defeat. The date, Aug 16, was later designated Peace Day, here and everywhere else, and nations usually gather to remember what war was and what peace meant.

  • MOVIE SHOWCASE

    Mini film festivalat Chula

    13/08/2010 : Students arrive at the screening armed with notebooks and questions ("What does that mean?"). Such is the appeal of Chulalongkorn International Film Festival, a mini film showcase for educational purposes hosted by the Department of Dramatic Arts, Chulalongkorn University, which is also open free to non-students.

  • MOVIE Review

    Maximum nostalgic pathos

    06/08/2010 : - Baaria : In Italian with Thai and English subtitles. At Lido and House

  • SAMUI FILM FESTIVAL

    Earth stories from around the globe

    06/08/2010 : The island has the sun and the sea, and now it also has a film festival. Samui Film Festival runs from today until Aug 8 at Tamarind Springs Forest and Spa on Lamai Beach, Koh Samui.

  • DVD ADDICT

    The darkest of comedies

    06/08/2010 : Do you remember the scene in Todd Solondz 's Happiness where the unhappy schmuck Allen (John Lovitz) presents the drab and depressed Joy (Jane Adams) with an engraved, faux-antique ashtray, only to have her burst into tears and break off the relationship? Or the one toward the end of the film where the paedophile psychotherapist Bill Maplewood (Dylan Baker), who has been drugging and raping his little son Billy's schoolmates, discusses his sexual preferences in excruciating detail with the boy as he prepares to leave home for a long prison term?

  • MAE NAK SCREENING

    Ghost in the pot

    30/07/2010 : The Thai Film Archive invites you all to discover the true legend, or the fictitious truth, or possibly both, of the most famous and cinematic Thai ghost: Mae Nak. The vengeful spirit has haunted Thai screens as films and TV series for 50 years, and it's only fitting that the Archive will host an afternoon dedicated to her.

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