January 17 2004

Bangkok International Film Festival

Bangkok International Film Festival 2004

Thai films rarely get international recognition and, judging by recent releases, it's easy to understand why. We have bank-robbing ladyboys, cheerleading ladyboys, a boxing ladyboy (saving up for his operation) and screaming ladyboys lost in a forest. Do you see a pattern emerging? Incidentally, the last London Film Festival featured just one film from Thailand. Can you guess who was in it? That's right - more fucking ladyboys!

Fortunately, you won't be made to suffer their silly gravel-voiced antics at the Bangkok International Film Festival 2004 because it also features a diverse line-up of art-house classics from around the world. For just 12 days, Thailand's movie fans will get a much-needed supplement to their normal diet of Hollywood popcorn.

Top attraction is Lost in Translation, with Bill Murray as a jet-lagged American who finds unexpected romance at the Tokyo Hilton. Others include Dogville which has Nicole Kidman fleeing the mob and the critically acclaimed 21 Grams with Sean Penn. Naturally, I will be avoiding Zatoichi, a Japanese drama featuring a cross-dressing geisha. It might go down well with Thai audiences, though.

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More details

The Bangkok International Film Festival 2004
Showing at theatres all over Bangkok
22 Jan - 2 Feb, 2004

Tickets from Thai Ticket Master
Tel: 0-2204-9999

www.bangkokfilm.org

[Posted to TV/Movies by David]

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Readers' comments

lynn says:

Hi, stumbled across your blog through Globe of Blogs.

Anyway, hehe, yes it's true - the ladyboys are quite plentiful when it comes to Thai films. I'm really looking forward to Lost in Translation and Dogville, though. And I think I'll be avoiding Zatoichi, too. ;)

January 17, 2004 10:26 AM

Jon says:

Don't sleep on the zaotichi. it's a series of japanese movies that started i think in the late 60s. i came accross one of the zatoichi movies on accident and i've been trying to see them all ever since.
it's about this blind swordsman who is just a peasant and slices up every mother fucker that draws his sword in front of him.
the action is very good even in the older, earlier movies.
although there isn't much i can say about any cross dressing geishas.

May 28, 2004 2:26 AM

Bill says:

I like the scene where the cross dressing Geisha with artificial wings, copulates in the air, screaming like magpies........Aerialists ejaculate each other in space with one sure touch.........Equilibrialists suck each other off deftly, balanced on perilous poles and chairs tilted over the void.

No. That was in the book, not the film. I get confused easily.

May 28, 2004 11:58 AM

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