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The RIVER CITY BANGKOK'S FILM CLUB hold its JUNE WEEK-END Film Series, every SATURDAY/ SUNDAY of JUNE, at 4 PM.
8 Award-Winning Films, from excitingly diverse countries !
The Screenings are FREE !
With hosted Receptions,every day-!
Here is the Movie-List:
SAT 3 JUNE, 4 PM- OPENING FILM 'BLOOD OF MY BLOOD'
Directed by Joao Canijo (Portugal)
SUN 4 JUNE, 4 PM- ' VILLA TOUMA' ( Palestin...
Arresting Movie on Real-Life Spanish Teacher in Nepal
“ The film romanticized my life, which was much tougher in actuality!”
An arresting movie called "Kathmandu, A mirror in the sky", by noted Spanish Director Iciar Bollain, was made on an amazing real-life Spanish teacher in Nepal, starring talented actress Veronica Echegui, who won many awards for her performance.
The film was screened at Bangkok recently, in the presence of the real-li...
IRENE JACOB
Exclusive interview with legendary French Star, in Bangkok
“ This Asian Tour has been an amazing experience!"
She is one of the ‘greats’ of French cinema, who has acted in films across the globe, with the legendary Directors of our time.
But her recent Asian tour saw the great actress Irene Jacob not on the screen, but on the stage. It was a riveting play, directed by, not a Western, but a Japane...
Palestinian Director SUHA ARRAF’s controversial Debut Film
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Palestinian Director SUHA ARRAF’s controversial Debut Film
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‘ THE LAST EXECUTIONER’ Wins Best Actor Prize at Shanghai International Film Festival
‘PETCHAKART’ ,‘THE LAST EXECUTIONER'’ probably the most awaited Thai film of the year, will have its public release in Thailand ,today , and expectations are running high ,after its recent success at the Shanghai International Film Festival ,where the film won the Best Actor Award for lead-actor &nbs...
A Moving Biopic about a Real-Life Executioner
Will be Screened at Cannes Market, on 20 MAY
It's one of the most talked-about films in Thailand,this year,starring an actor who created a stir at the Cannes Festival,last ye...
THAILAND INTERNATIONAL FILM DESTINATION FESTIVAL
A Festival that celebrates a Destination
“Films made in Thailand look like high-budget productions, although they are low-budget ,because of the superior facilities ."
Inspite of political strife in the country, there has been a range of film festivals in the country.
The biggest was the ‘Thailand International Destination Film Festival’ ,organized by the Department o...
THAI SHORT FILM, TO SCREEN AT SOHO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
First film of three Bangkok-based,multi-national film actors, who start new film company
A Thai Short Film ‘CLUELESS’ has been selected for the Soho International Film Festival in New York, where it will be screened on Friday 16 May ,followed by the American feature ...
Finally, a Film Festival in Bangkok, after the Political Protests
After five months of political protests and chaos in Bangkok, here's a welcome Film Festival !
The GOETHE INSTITUTE has lined up an exciting array of WEEK-END FILM-SCREENINGS, this month.
All screenings are at 4 PM, at the ESPLANADE CINEPLEX, Ratchadapisek ( MRT- Thailand Cultural Centre)
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THE BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Biggest, Best-organised Film Festival in Asia
The Busan International Film Festival, held in the lush beach-town of Busan in Korea, and now in its 18th year ,is easily the biggest and best-organised festival in Asia.
With nearly 300 films from 70 countries, including 94 world-premieres, a guest-list of 1000 fro...
‘LOOTERA' is the second film of talented, young Indian director Vikramaditya Motwane ,whose debut movie ‘Udaan’ was screened at the prestigious Cannes Festival in 2010.
While that film dealt with a volatile father-son relationship, this film deals with a close father-daughter relationship, and is loosely based on the O Henry short story ‘The Last Leaf.’
Motwane's pulled off another well-made film, although the two sections of the movie almost...
Interview with the 2 THAI STARS of the Film, which was shot entirely in Bangkok.
Thai Actor Vithaya Pansringarm and Thai Actress Yaya Ying, at the Cannes Festival ,where 'Only God Forgives' was in Competition
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The Thai act...
The New ‘Prince’ of Thai Cinema
‘THE COP ’- A Rivetting Thriller
It's time to welcome the new 'Prince' in Thai Cinema - Adam Yukol, the son of the legendary Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, the blue-blooded maker of numerous Thai films, including 'Suryothai' ( which was edite...
Paolo Sorrentino,to attend Italian 'Moviemov' Film Festival ,in Bangkok
24 July -28 July
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PARADOXOCRACY'- Docu about the 'paradoxes' of Thailand's democratic movement.
It’s the first time I've seen a near-full house in Bangkok,and that too for an indie film!
But when the film is controversial, censored, almost banned, and running only for a limited spell, it holds a lot of promis...
' PARADOXOCRACY'- Docu about the 'paradoxes' of Thailand's democratic movement.
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Vithaya Pansringarm ,in 'Onl;y God Forgives' (above)
Watch out for Vithaya Pansringarm, the' Angel of Vengeance' in the Cannes Competition- film 'Only God Forgives'
Watch out for a quiet,intense Thai actor who plays the 'Angel of Vengeance' , the all-important adversary of Ryan Gosling in the Cannes Festival's Competion film 'Only God Forgives', directed by noted Danish director Nicolas Refn.
Refn won the Best ...
The great Amitabh Bachchan plays a Jewish mobster, in Cannes Festival's Opening Film ' The Great Gatsby' !
Tomorrow, is the Opening Night of The Cannes Festival, and all eyes will be on Baz Luhrmann's spectacular,3D version of 'The Great Gatsby' , the Opening film, based on the famed novel by Scott Fitzgerald. The film has already been released in the US and UK, and clicked well at the box-office,even if the reviews have been mixed.
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Bombay Talkies'- An Ode to Indian Cinema
Cannes Festival, 2013 - Country Focus : INDIA
INDIA is the Country in focus,at this year's Cannes Festival ! Why ? Because the country which boasts of the largest film indutry in the world, celebrates its 100 Anniversary,this year!
A special film 'BOMBAY TALKIES" ,specially created for the festival, will have a gala screening. It's made up of four arresting short films by four of the most talented co...
" Pee Mak Phra Khanong "
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THAILAND INTERNATIONAL ‘FILM DESTINATION’ FESTIVAL (3-10 April )
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A Monumental Tribute to Indian Cinema
There have been many events in India, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country’s film industry, and...
Film by Noted Director Ram Gopal Varma
A Chronicle of the Mumbai Killings - Nothing more, nothing less
After the Obama-killing and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, the American hostage-crisis and ‘Argo’...
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About LEKHA SHANKAR
 SHANKAR LEKHA I'm an Indian film-writer, based in Bangkok, and write for publications in India & Thailand. I also coordinate and curate film programs in the two countries, at cultural centres/clubs, film festivals.
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