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Review: Wonderful Town

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2008-05-14 10:25:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...town. Surrounding it are the craggy, limestone foothills of a rugged mountain chain. The town is isolated. It's hard to get to, and harder still to leave. Hardly anybody lives there. The people that are there are a bit crazy. It's a ghost town Into this place comes Ton ( Supphasit Kansen) , an architect from the big city, Bangkok. He's come...
 
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Wonderful Town back in New York and around the world

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2008-07-12 11:00:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Town will be back in New York for a one-week run from July 18 at the Anthology Film Archives , with further releases planned across the U.S. during the summer and fall. Then, presumably, Kino International , which has the North American rights to the film, will release Wonderful Town on DVD Meanwhile, Wonderful Town continues to burn up the...
 
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Wonderful Town heads to San Francisco

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2008-04-08 21:46:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Town continues its festival run, going to the San Francisco International Film Festival , where it has been programmed in the New Directors lineup Described as a "melancholy Thai 'ghost story', about an architect who falls in love with a hotel maid," the film "substitutes dreamlike scenes of the tsunami-ravaged seacoast for shock cuts. No...
 
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Wonderful Town wins special mention in San Francisco, press premiere held in Bangkok

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2008-05-09 06:34:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Town earning special mention from the jury of the New Directors Prize, in which it was once again in competition with Flower in the Pocket by Liew Seng Tat I have now actually seen Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town . This acclaimed film finally premiered in Thailand, playing last night for a packed-out audience of press, indie-film supporters...
 
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Wonderful Town reviewed in New York

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2008-04-03 22:30:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Town has been playing in the New Directors/New Films series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York IndieWire reviewed it A quiet, beautiful film that rewards the patient viewer, Wonderful Town is laden with tenderness, one that is specifically Thai. Yet the gentle courtship and affair between a visiting architect and a woman running her...
 
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Wonderful Town being released in France

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2008-04-16 19:50:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Town will have a commercial release in France. It opens on May 7, according to IMDb See also Official site (French Wonderful Town heads to San Francisco Wonderful Town reviewed in New York Wonderful Town wins Fipresci award in Hong Kong Hong Kong roundup, Wonderful Town, Handle Me With Care reviewed Wonderful Town, Flower in the Pocket...
 
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Wonderful Town, Flower in the Pocket share prizes at Deauville

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2008-03-17 06:43:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Town by Aditya Assarat and Flower in the Pocket by Malaysia's Liew Seng Tat, shared the New Currents Award (with third film, Guang Hao-jin's Life Track Wonderful and Flower then shared the Tiger Awards at this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam (also with a third film, Go With Peace Jamal by Omar Shargawi Now they have tied for...
 
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Polish Documentaries: Return to the Old Town (1954)

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2008-04-14 20:59:29 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
...Town, all but destroyed during World War II, Jerzy Bossaks film has enough genuinely powerful images of the large-scale restoration and reconstruction process to compensate for the commentarys attempts at rewriting Warsaws history from an almost exclusively Communist perspective - the price a Polish film from the early 1950s had to pay for...
 
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Ploy, Wonderful Town, Opapatika in Deauville

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2008-03-10 17:03:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Town (seems like it is playing everywhere but Thailand) and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy (when's the uncensored, English-friendly version coming to DVD A third film, the karmic action drama Opapatika , is featured in the Asia Action Competition The three Thai films join a program that includes tributes to Korean director Im Kwon-taek, Chinese...
 
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