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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 18-23, 2016
The Look of SilenceFollowing last week's release of The Act of Killing, here's the essential companion piece, The Look of Silence, which delves further into politically motivated genocide in 1960s...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Wim Wenders: A Retrospective
Wim Wenders, the award-winning German auteur who has explored existential rootlessness in such films as Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas, will be paid tribute in a series of screenings organised by the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 25-March 2, 2016
AnomalisaCharlie Kaufman, the innovative writer-director behind such mind-bending existential conundrums as Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation and Synecdoche, New...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 3-9, 2016
Hail, Caesar!With Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Bros. return to the Hollywood Golden Age at Capitol Pictures, which they first mined for screwball-comedy hijinks in Barton Fink, which was set in the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 10-16, 2016
The Hunting GroundRape culture at American colleges is exposed in The Hunting Ground, a documentary on campus rape crimes, institutional cover-ups and the toll that rape and sexual abuse takes on...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 17-23, 2016
Jane Got a GunNatalie Portman is a young frontierswoman in Jane Got a Gun. Although she's got plenty of sand, she has to get help from her gunslinger ex-boyfriend when her farm and her husband (Noah...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: March 24-30, 2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticeGood old Batman. Just a regular dude, looking out for the rest of us mere mortals. He's always suspicious, always wary. And for every superhero or supervillain that...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 31-April 6, 2016
All Things Must PassRemember Tower Records? In the days before streaming music services, MP3s and digital downloads, Tower Records and other record stores were the places to get your music fix. There...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 6-12, 2016
Luang Phee Jazz 4GToday's Chakri Memorial Day public holiday kicks off anticipatory celebrations of next week's Songkran Thai New Year, which is a three-day public holiday from next Wednesday to...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 12-20, 2016
The MermaidHong Kong comedy great Stephen Chow returns to the scene with The Mermaid, the story of a pretty young mermaid (Lin Yun) who is sent to the city to seduce and kill a playboy developer (Deng...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Bangkok Asean Film Festival, April 22-26, 2016
Movies from across the Asean Economic Community will be shown in the second edition of the Bangkok Asean Film Festival, which opens to the public on Friday at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld. It's put...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 21-27, 2016
Patong GirlA German teen on holiday in Thailand with his dysfunctional family falls head over heels for a local lass in Patong Girl (สาวป่าตอง), an indie drama that recently won a Grimme Prize in...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 27-May 4, 2016
Captain America: Civil WarWith Captain America: Civil War, Marvel Studios offers a more brightly lit and quippier counterpoint to the drab darkness of the DC comics films.Like DC's Batman v Superman:...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 5-11, 2016
Buppha ArigatoYuthlert Sippapak is one of the Thai film industry's more distinctive and prolific directors. His signature move is to throw all kinds of ideas into the blender and then somehow assemble...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 12-18, 2016
Embrace of the SerpentThe first film from the South American country of Colombia to be nominated for an Academy Award, Embrace of the Serpent is a look at the Amazon forest as seen through the eyes of...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 19-25, 2016
X-Men: ApocalypseComic-book-obsessed Hollywood turns the page to the X-Men franchise overseen by producer-director Bryan Singer and 20th Century Fox, with X-Men: Apocalypse, in a story that is set in...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 26-June 1, 2016
Money MonsterFresh from the Cannes Film Festival, Money Monster is former child star Jodie Foster's fourth effort in the director's chair.The loaded cast boasts George Clooney and Julia Roberts, with...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 2-8, 2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the ShadowsThe pizza-loving martial-arts heroes in half-shells are back to save New York in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, which involves the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Bangkok Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, June 10-19, 2016
Twelve films, many of them award winners, which deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes from 10 countries will be shown at the Quartier CineArt during the second edition of the Bangkok...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 9-15, 2016
Where to Invade NextThough it seems like he never really went away, Michael Moore returns from a hiatus of around six years with Where to Invade Next, in which he turns his eyes to progressive European...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Singapore Film Festival, June 16 to 19, 2016
Classics and more-recent entries from Singapore’s resurgent cinema movement will screen next week in the Singapore Film Festival at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld.The Singapore Embassy’s third annual...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: The Third Silent Film Festival in Thailand,...
Vampires, those fanged fiends who come out at night to suck our blood, have long been a staple of the silver screen, and one of the earliest examples of the genre, Nosferatu, will be the opening entry...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 16-22, 2016
DistanceThree award-winning Asian indie directors – Tan Shijie from Singapore, Xin Yukun from China and Sivaroj Kongsakul from Thailand – each take a crack at directing Taiwanese actor Chen Bo-lin in...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: European Union Film Festival, June 23-July 3, 2016
Sixteen films from 13 countries will screen for the general public in the long-running annual European Union Film Festival, starting next week at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld.This year, the festival...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 23-June 29, 2016
Elvis and NixonA bizarre intersection of American pop culture and politics is recounted in Elvis and Nixon, which stars Michael Shannon as the King of Rock 'n' Roll and Kevin Spacey as Tricky Dick.It's...
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