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[cloudbusting]

nicholasday, on 2009-04-28 23:11:12, said:

Haven't seen Sia Dai  but Sia Dai 2 is good although kinda depressing. Story of a young thai girl who gets HIV from a blood transfusion.

Sounds very much like the original, depressing but very good supposedly.

Not sure i'm going to find anymore of what i'm looking for in Fortune Tower so will try MBK next time I'm over that direction.

I see Pen-Ek has a new film competing at Cannes this year.  Any idea when it'll be released over here?

[jcon]

wobblyjohn, on 2009-04-28 22:17:46, said:

Alone (2007)

I watched this a couple of months back, its another scary movie from the directors of Shutter, if I have to sleep with the lights on I might aswell get my moneys worth,
Alone is quite likely the best pure horror film to come from Thailand since Shutter




there is a trailer on Youtube here

Hottest woman in Thailand, hands down, period full stop.  She also won best actress for this movie at the 2008 "Thai Oscars." Good movie. Great actress. Even better singer.

For good old Thai slapstick I gotta say "Jaew" aka "M.A.I.D" (Mission Almost Impossible Done) is a funny movie... you have to know a bit about Thai culture, but I must say I was laughing throughout...

[nicholasday]

Yes very much looking forward to seeing what the new Pen-ek film is like. He seemed to go a bit downhill recently. Ploy was only ok and Invisible waves was not very good. No idea when it is coming out. I hear it is a psychological horror and very different from your average Thai horror. I also recommend his first film of Fun Bar karaoke. Pen-ek (and a number of other thai directors) started out making adverts. Here is a very funny one by Pen-ek:

[David006]

gbt71fa, on 2009-04-28 15:19:39, said:

BugJackBaron, on 2008-06-16 17:07:56, said:

I have yet to sit through any, though I have heard Memory is good..

Others?

What was that movie about the girl and the dog?  That ripped my heart out especially the ending.  Being an American male, we have a special conneciton to our dogs and I hate to see how they are treated here.  That movie really hit home the plight of many thai children by connecting them with the plight of thai dogs.  I almost balled my eyes out.

You read my mind mate..watched that in Thai one night when the wife was at her mothers' and it choked me up..was going to post same question! As you said excellent movie re the soi kids and dogs.. post if you get the name as would like my wife to see/buy it.

[njpski]

Jan Dara was interesting

[junki3korean]

chocolate

[fallingoffthemap]

The Love of Siam was one of the best movies I've ever seen, period. There was a long thread on it here when it came out a year or 2 ago.

Jan Dara was also an excellent film.

I haven't seen Ong Bak, but it's quite well known internationally.

[Jimjim]

Chocolate was one I saw for sale on the streets of Bangkok while with friends and it didn't have English subtitles, probably because of the whole international distribution thing.

Often a lot of them will usually always have English subtitles in the cinema but it's hard to find DVDs with subtitles sometimes.  As for going the other route and buying them from illegitimate providers, you usually won't find them.  The pirates are afraid of the Thai film companies but not the international ones...

As for Syndromes and a Century, I am in the U.S. now so was able to rent it.  Didn't watch it yet, but I'm looking forward to it because of the controversy.  There were about 10 minutes worth of scenes the government censors decided were offensive to the kingdom of Thailand, even though this was made by a Thai filmmaker.  I'm not even sure what was in the scenes but I'll certainly find out because I'm not in the land of censorship.  I think it was merely a scene of some doctors drinking and another with a monk playing a guitar.  When the maker of this film finally showed it in Thailand, he merely cut out the censored scenes with silent black for the duration of the scene in an artsy form of protest.  So, if you saw the film in the cinema you would have sat for a few minutes of nothing on the screen for those scenes.  Curious, considering the director and writer said he merely made the film as a tribute to his parents, but an honest look at life in Thailand.  I suspect the honesty is what got him in trouble.  Even if he saw doctors drinking in a hospital and a monk strumming a guitar as a kid, can't have any real-life scenes of Thailand if it disrupts everyone's rosy perceptions of Thai doctors and monks.  That'd just be too honest, forthright and commendable in terms of free speech, reality and cultural awareness.  Not everything fit in to the view of the protectors of Thai culture when his movie came up for review.  As you can tell, I really hate censorship especially when it's this ridiculous.

[Rikker]

cloudbusting, on 2009-04-28 12:28:39, said:

I see Pen-Ek has a new film competing at Cannes this year.  Any idea when it'll be released over here?

Pen-Ek's new film "Nymph" (นางไม้) hits theaters in Thailand on July 2, according to the teaser poster seen in Wise Kwai's recent post.

[Huey]

"The Shutter" Was so good that Hollywood copied it and couldn't make it any better than the original. Infact the original was much better.

[mahtin]

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Chai Lai

Not sure if it had subtitles, but it had Jintara

Terrible enough to be a camp classic.

[Absingjul]

เด็กหอ (Dorm)
ปิดเทอมใหญ่ หัวใจว้าวุ่น (Hormones)  
จัน ดารา (Jan Dara)  

[thithi]

Sa-ra-nae Haow-Peng is in the cinema now.
It is like Jacka55 show and MTV show.... fun tho


another one is ... YHam Ya-so-thorn 2007
funny issan-country movie

Edited by thithi, 2009-05-13 13:48:26.

[kertym]

Spiny, on 2008-06-18 08:42:43, said:

My favorites in the last couple of years have been Muan Rare, (the Tin Mine), Fan Chan, and Jot Mai Rak (The love letter)
All told a good story, had enough charisma to hold the attention and certainly tugged at the heart strings a bit

Do you have english subtitles for Tin Mine?
or where can i download them?