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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 8-14, 2015
FoxcatcherOne of the season's most-buzzed-about awards contenders, Foxcatcher is based on true events that I don't remember. And I want the story to be a surprise, so I'm avoiding reading too much else...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 15-21, 2015
The IsthmusA singularly weird film, The Isthmus (ที่ว่างระหว่างสมุทร, Teewang Rawang Samut) opens for a limited run this week, more than a year after it made initial bow on the festival circuit.Tapping...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 22-28, 2015
The Songs of RiceMy favorite film of 2014, The Songs of Rice (พลงของข้าว, Pleng Khong Kao), finally comes to Thai cinemas this week in a limited release.Directed by Uruphong Raksasad and produced by...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Japanese Film Festival, January 30-February 8,...
Under the theme of “Life”, the Japanese Film Festival has 15 entries, all from the past couple years or so, running from January 31 until February 8 at Paragon Cineplex.Thankfully, in a departure from...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 29-February 4, 2015
Life ItselfThe incredible life story of influential and popular Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert is told in Life Itself, a documentary based on his best-selling 2011 memoir.Directed by Steve...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Thailand International Film Destination...
Now in its third year, the Thailand Film Office's Thailand International Film Destination Festival – a showcase of foreign films made in Thailand – has 10 movies screening from Saturday until Wednesday...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 5-11, 2015
Jupiter AscendingThe creators of The Matrix, siblings Andy and Lana Wachowski, return with another story of a seemingly ordinary person who is plucked from obscurity to change the destiny of moviegoers...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 12-18, 2015
Kingsman: The Secret ServiceDirector Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, X-Men: First Class) reteams with Kick-Ass comic-book writer Mark Millar for Kingsman: The Secret Service, which looks to be a fun-filled...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 19-25, 2015
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)Academy Award-nominated director Alejandro González Iñárritu brings an unblinking approach to comedy-drama in the much-acclaimed Birdman or (The...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 26-March 3, 2015
FocusAw hell yeah! Let the renewal of Will Smith's career begin.The Hollywood leading light, still-stinging from the "painful failure" of his vanity sci-fi project After Earth and a host of other...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 4-11, 2015
ChappieSouth African director Neill Blomkamp is having another moment. With his third full-length feature Chappie hitting cinemas, Blomkamp has been making the rounds of premieres and press conferences...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 12-18, 2015
CinderellaDisney continues its drive to do live-action remakes of all its beloved animated films with Cinderella, the fairy tale of a young woman who is forced into a life of servitude by her cruel...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: German Film Week 2015
Fairy tales, comedies, historical dramas and children's stories are set for German Film Week, which starts on Monday at Paragon Cineplex. Here’s the rundown:March 16 – The Golden Goose– In this 2013...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Salaya Doc 2015
With an abiding focus on Southeast Asia, as well as filmmaking and cultural preservation, the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival returns for its fifth edition from March 21 to 28 at the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 19-25, 2015
Lupin the ThirdLupin the Third, the live-action adaptation of a long-running manga series gets a limited release following its local premiere at last month's Japanese Film Festival.Ryuhei Kitamura...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 26-April 1, 2015
PaddingtonBritish expat readers have been pestering me for months about this one. "When is Paddington coming to Bangkok?" they have asked repeatedly.Well, please stop bothering me. He's here now.The...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 1-8, 2015
Fast and Furious 7Thailand's multiplex operators had put their eggs into one basket for this week's opening of Fast and Furious 7, positioning it as the sole major release of the week, a major tentpole...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 9-15, 2015
The Legend of King Naresuan Part VIAfter years of struggle that eventually bankrupted his studio, director MC Chatrichalerm Yukol brings his epic historical-drama franchise to its logical conclusion...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Week of Portuguese Cinema, April 19-25, 2015
Manoel de Oliveira, a titan of Portuguese cinema who died at age 106 on April 2, and who was still making films well into his 100s, is paid tribute during the Week of Portuguese Cinema, which is...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Swedish Film Festival, April 23-26, 2015
Eight recent films will be screened in the Swedish Film Festival from April 23 to 26 at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld. Here is the line-up:The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and...
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