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September 07, 2005
THAI MOVIES GO PUSAN
The Pusan International Film Festival is featuring 10 Thai movies this year: six new and four old.
The new movies are: THE TIN MINE, MIDNIGHT MY LOVE, MY SPACE, INNOCENCE, 3 FRIENDS, and CITIZEN DOG.
INNOCENCE is a digital video production shot by a former Miss Thailand about a group of Hill Tribe kids taken to see the ocean by the principal of their boarding school. It and 3 FRIENDS are both independent productions.
MIDNIGHT MY LOVE is a romance starring big-mouthed Mum Jokmok (ONG BAK) as a lonely cab driver who falls in love with a passenger.
The old movies are by director Rattana Pestonj and include:
Sugar Is Not Sweet (1965)
Black Silk (1961)
Country Hotel (1957)
Dark Heaven (1958)
Rattana is the Iranian-Thai director who was one of the first to bring Thai films to Western festivals (BLACK SILK played the Berlin film fest in 1961) and he died in 1970 while giving a speech encouraging the Thai government to support the film industry. You can read more on his life here.
September 7, 2005 at 12:31 PM in News | Permalink
Comments
I'd love to see the Rattana Pestonji films (they've recently played fests Bangkok and Singapore, but have they travelled to any festivals outside Asia yet?) and CITIZEN DOG, but I'm most curious about THREE FRIENDS, which also plays next week in Toronto. So far I've been impressed with the films Mingmongkol Sonakul and Aditya Assarat have had a hand in.
Posted by: Brian | Sep 7, 2005 2:21:01 PM
Can you mail your email? I have something to talk with you but don't want to post it here.
Anchalee
Posted by: Anchalee | Sep 7, 2005 11:59:06 PM
My email is grady@subwaycinema.com but if you're looking for Brian's email I believe you can find it over on his excellent review site: www.brns.com
But I hope you don't like him more than you like me...
Posted by: Grady Hendrix | Sep 8, 2005 3:28:06 PM
That comment was actually mine. To avoid confusion, I'll use this handle for future comments here from now on. In the event its actually me that Anchalee (or anybody else) wants to contact, boingdiddleypop@yahoo.com is my e-mail.
Posted by: Frisco Brian | Sep 8, 2005 5:37:51 PM
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