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Kongkiat, Wisit are serving up Slice

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2008-10-10 21:12:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
Muay Thai Chaiya director Kongkiat Khomsiri's next project is a crime thriller called Slice that he is developing with Tears of the Black Tiger and Citizen Dog director Wisit Sasanatieng for Five Star Production It's not the first time the two have collaborated. Kongkiat wrote the screenplay for The Unseeable , the period ghost thriller that...
 
Tags: tai, slice, informant named tai, thriller, period ghost thriller, murderer, kongkiat, wisit, time period
 
 
 
 
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Chocolate, Truth Be Told in Hawaii

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2008-10-10 18:52:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
The Hawaii International Film Festival has started and it runs until October 19, featuring a diverse program with more than a dozen different sections Chocolate , featuring hard-charging martial-arts action from a pint-sized Thai lady , is in the " Extreme Asia " section alongside Cyborg She , Metal Samurai , Kelvin Tong's Rule No. 1 and Tokyo...
 
Tags: truth, supinya klangnarong, klangnarong, shin corp, giant shin corp, film, documentary feature competition, film meanders, documentary
 
 
 
 
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Love of Siam in competition at Cinemanila

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2008-10-10 03:05:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
Chukiat Sakweerakul's family and teen romantic drama The Love of Siam is in the Southeast Asia Competition at the 10th Cinemanila Film Festival, with runs from October 16 to 29 Here's the lineup in that section 12 Lotus (Royston Tan, Singapore Adela (Adolf Alix, Philippines The Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Edwin, Indonesia Confessional...
 
Tags: competition, southeast asia competition, main competition, love, siam, ruel dahis antipuesto, icelandic documentarian olaf, venice film festival, indonesia
 
 
 
 
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Mheejou in Taiwan's Women Make Waves Film Festival

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2008-10-09 13:07:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
Sukanya Vongsthapat has made her name as a producing partner at Baa Ram Ewe and Sahamongkol Film International with Prachya Pinkaew. She's been behind such major hits as Ong-Bak , The Love of Siam , Bangkok Love Story and Chocolate Her long in-the-works directorial debut, Mheejou , was released Thai cinemas in August. Lamentably, it was in and...
 
Tags: waves film festival, bangkok love story, love, in-the-works directorial debut, baa ram ewe, sahamongkol film international, sweet tale, sukanya vongsthapat, northern thailand
 
 
 
 
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A general surveys the battlefield

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2008-10-09 02:58:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
Director and martial-arts choreographer Panna Rittikrai oversees the location of Ong Bak 2 in Rayong Province, where a 25-million Khmer-style palace has been built by set designer Ek Iemcheun. It includes an arena big enough for elephant battles! More about the palace is included in an earlier post According to a Daily Xpress item today (Page...
 
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More Asian superheroes are coming

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2008-10-08 20:10:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
The recently ended Pusan International Film Festival had its Special Program in Focus on Superheroes in Asia , which featured 2006's Mercury Man from Thailand and 10 other Asian supers Io9 reviews the program , with this to say about Mercury Man Mercury Man was a more Western take, with a hero overtly modeled after Spider-Man. Mercury Man is a...
 
Tags: hollywood reporter, mercury, program, superhero comic adaptation, jeon woo chi, hero, hero overtly, io9 reviews, special program
 
 
 
 
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E-Tim Tay Nae is made by a Nose

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2008-10-08 05:01:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...movies The trailers for E-Tim Tay Nae still retain a bit of the action-adventure that Nose intended, with a direct parody of the torture scene from the 2006 Bond film Casino Royale . It involved Daniel Craig's 007 sitting naked on a chair with the seat cut out, and a heavy knotted rope being swung with great force under the hole in the seat....
 
Tags: e-tim tay nae, e-tim, nose, pattaya, crime-comedy pattaya maniac, comedian nose plays, budget, big-budget productions, pattaya tourist dive
 
 
 
 
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38 years ago tomorrow ...

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2008-10-07 10:31:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...movies from 1956 to 1970, many of them with his doe-eyed onscreen sweetheart Petchara Chaowarat. There's a shrine to Mitr in Jomtien Commemorating the 38th anniversary of the pompadoured action hero's death, Mitr will be remembered in several events in the coming weeks, with screenings of his movies and a charity concert The National Film...
 
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The Holy Man 2 preaches at the box office

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2008-10-07 01:55:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
No big surprise that Luang Phee Theng 2 Roon Ha Rumruay ( The Holy Man 2 ) was the No. 1 movie over the weekend at Major Cineplex, Thailand's biggest movie chain After all, Phranakorn Film's first Holy Man was the biggest movie of the year in Thailand in 2005 The rest of the weekend's top five is all Hollywood: Eagle Eye , Disaster Movie ,...
 
Tags: luang phee theng, movie chain, movie, holy, major cineplex, disaster movie, joey boy, major, joey boy momentarily