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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 21-27, 2014
Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForBack in 2005, director Robert Rodriguez had the cool idea of taking Dark Knight writer-artist Frank Miller's neo-noir Sin City graphic novel and recreating the gritty frames...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: 18th Thai Short Film and Video Festival, August...
The schedule is out for the 18th Thai Short Film and Video Festival, which has many highlights, among them the screening of Filipino auteur Lav Diaz' four-hour opus Norte, the End of History.Think of...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 28-September 3, 2014
Tukkae Rak Pang Mak (Chiang Khan Story)Bits and pieces of veteran director Yuthlert Sippapak's own life are mixed into Tukkae Rak Pang Mak (ตุ๊กแกรักแป้งมาก, Chiang Khan Story).A romantic comedy,...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 4-10, 2014
BoyhoodOne of the most hotly anticipated and highly acclaimed films of the year, Boyhood is a triumph for director Richard Linklater, who made the coming-of-age drama over 12 years, bringing his cast...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 11-17, 2014
MotherDirector Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul blends documentary and drama in this unflinchingly personal look at his family in Mother.The story is set during the 1997 economic crisis, with a young man's...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 18-24, 2014
Pawang Rak (Concrete Clouds)Finally, Concrete Clouds (ภวังค์รัก, Pawang Rak, literally "subconscious love"), the directorial-debut feature of award-winning film editor Lee Chatametikool, is making its...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 25-October 1, 2014
Fin SugoiShowing her arty side on Bangkok big screens in the indie drama Concrete Clouds released last week, actress "Saipan" Apinya Sakuljaroensuk goes commercial in Fin Sugoi (ฟินสุโค่ย), heading the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 2-8, 2014
The HomesmanTommy Lee Jones saddles up again for an American old west tale, The Homesman, starring and directing this story of a gruff drifter who is recruited by a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) to help...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 9-14, 2014
The BabadookA widowed mother struggles to raise her six-year-old who has constant nightmares about The Babadook, a creature coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook mysteriously turns up,...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: World Film Festival of Bangkok, October 17-26
The 12th World Film Festival of Bangkok opens this Friday at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld with Somboon, a documentary by young Thai director Krisda Tipchaimeta that follows the lives of Grandpa...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 16-22, 2014
Dracula UntoldLuke Evans stars in Dracula Untold, a historical-epic retelling of the origins of literature's most famous vampire.Evans is Prince Vlad, a former Turkish slave whose peaceful life is...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 23-29, 2014
Gone GirlOne of the those buzzworthy films you wish everyone would just quit talking about already, Gone Girl is the latest acclaimed thriller from director David Fincher, and is winning raves for its...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 30-November 5, 2014
So Be ItTwo very different boys – a poor hilltribe youngster and a half-Thai reality-TV star – ordain as novice Buddhist monks in So Be It (A-Wang, เอวัง), a documentary by acclaimed Thai...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 6-12, 2014
InterstellarDark Knight director Christopher Nolan heads into space with Interstellar, an epic sci-fi thriller that's already being compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey.It's a time not far into the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 13-19, 2014
Vengeance of the AssassinAcclaimed action director and choreographer Panna Rittikrai passed away on July 20, 2014 at age 53 and was best known for his work as a stunt coordinator on Ong-Bak and other...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 20-26, 2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1Picking up from last year's entry in the franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 follows heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as she escapes from the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 26-December 3, 2014
The MasterAsk about Thai filmmaker or movie critic of a certain age how they managed to see classic world cinema works in the age before Pirate Bay, they will likely admit they got their fix from Mr....
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 18-24, 2014
SomboonThe opening film of this year's World Film Festival of Bangkok, the documentary Somboon (ปู่สมบรูณ์, Poo Somboon), returns to the screens this week in a limited release at SF cinemas.It follows...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 25-30, 2014
The Tale of the Princess KaguyaStudio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbors the Yamadas) returns with The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, his first feature animation in 14...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 31, 2013-January 7, 2015
Satree Lek Tob Loke TaekPoj Anon, Thailand's leading maker of films featuring cross-dressing actors in bad wigs, offers his own take on the true story of the “iron ladies” – the transgender-queer...
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