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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 6-11, 2015
The Blue Hour (Onthakan)It's been a strong year for Thai queer films, and one of the major pillars has been The Blue Hour (Onthakan, อนธการ), a coming-of-age romance and suspense thriller.The story...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 12-19, 2015
Inside OutFor their latest feature Inside Out, the wizards at Pixar Animation go inside the mind of a depressed 11-year-old girl at a crucial time in her life.Such a story may not seem like the type of...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 20-26, 2015
AmyThe short life of Grammy-winning pop musician Amy Winehouse is detailed in the much-acclaimed hit documentary Amy, which comes to Thai cinemas as part of the ongoing Doc Holiday series put on by SF...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Bangkok Asean Film Festival
Yet another free film festival is upon us with the Bangkok Asean Film Festival, organized by the Culture Ministry and the Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand. Running from August 27 to...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 27-September 2, 2015
Absolutely AnythingRobin Williams and the cast of Monty Python's Flying Circus all figure into the absurdist comedy Absolutely Anything, which stars Simon Pegg (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible) as a...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 3-9, 2015
FreelanceHaving honed his craft making award-winning short films and independent features and writing commercial screenplays, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit makes his much-hyped mainstream studio debut...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 10-16, 2015
GerontophiliaAttendees of the now-defunct Bangkok International Film Festival in 2008 might remember a weird movie called Otto: Or Up with Dead People, an offbeat musical comedy about a gay zombie that...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 17-23, 2015
Mae Bia (The Snake)Giant snake aside, it's the same old story with veteran director and drama coach ML Bandevanop "Mom Noi" Devakula, who adapts yet another well-known Thai tale with his latest film...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening September 24-30, 2015
EverestThe 1996 blizzard that killed eight climbers on the world's highest mountain is recounted in Everest, which in the grand tradition of Hollywood disaster epics boasts an expansive all-star...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 1-7, 2015
May Who?Teenage angst takes the form of electricity in the Thai teen romance May Nhai .. Fai Raeng Fer (เมย์ไหน..ไฟแรงเฟร่อ , a.k.a. May Who?), which is about a schoolgirl who is afflicted with a...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 8-14, 2015
SicarioEmily Blunt is your guide into the dark underbelly of America's continuing war on drugs. In Sicario, she is the hard-driving, by-the-book chief of an FBI hostage-response unit, who makes a...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 15-21, 2015
White GodStray dogs unite and revolt against their human overlords in White God, an unusual thriller from Hungary that won prizes at the Cannes Film Festival last year.The story centers on a girl...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 22-28, 2015
Vanishing PointWinner of the Hivos Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Vanishing Point (วานิชชิ่ง พอยท์) is artist-filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong's feature-length debut. It deals...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening October 29-November 4, 2015
Man on WireWhile The Walk earned plenty of accolades for its immersive acrophobia-inspiring 3D camera work, it bombed at the box office and faced a backlash from critics who were mostly bored by...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 5-11, 2015
SpectreDespite expressing his weariness of the role, "blond Bond" Daniel Craig is back for a fourth outing as Agent 007 in Spectre, the 24th entry in the action-packed James Bond film franchise.He's on...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 12-18, 2015
13th World Film Festival of BangkokThe 13th World Film Festival of Bangkok is upon us, opening to the public on Saturday and running until November 22 at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld.The schedule is...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 19-25, 2015
The LobsterWeird movies are part and parcel of film festivals, but, thanks to the ever-so-gradually maturing tastes of Thai distributors and film-goers, more and more of these oddball pictures are...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening November 26-December 2, 2015
German Open Air CinemaAlong with the resprouting of beer gardens in Bangkok, the end of the monsoon rains and the return of cool evening air also signifies the start of the annual German Open Air...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 3-9, 2015
Wolf TotemBanned from China after 1997's Seven Years in Tibet, French director Jean-Jacques Annaud was welcomed back into the country to make Wolf Totem, an epic historical drama about a young man from...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 10-16, 2015
SwayThree dysfunctional relationships rock back and forth between Asians in three cities in Sway, the debut feature by Thai-American writer-director Rooth Tang.The drama was put together over the...
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