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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.
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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.
All Stories
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.
