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December 30th, 2007, 10:31
http://www.cinematical.com/2007/12/29/w ... this-year/ (http://www.cinematical.com/2007/12/29/what-were-the-best-movies-in-thailand-this-year/)

In happier news, WiseKwai lists his other selections: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's "good kind of weird" Ploy, Pimpaka Towira's political doc The Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong, Kongkiat Khomsiri's period Thai boxing crime drama Muay Thai Chaiya, and Chukiat Sakweerakul's gay teen romance The Love of Siam. Thailand's Academy Award submission for Best Foreign Language Film, The Legend of Naresuan: Declaration in Independence, got an Honorable Mention along with sci-fi comedy The Sperm. That's a poster I'd love to see!
December 31st, 2007, 09:55
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Syndromes and a Century" is due to be released on Netflix on Jan 15.
Was it ever released in Thailand?
Hmmm
December 31st, 2007, 12:46
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Syndromes and a Century" is due to be released on Netflix on Jan 15.
Was it ever released in Thailand?

Not according to wikipedia ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndromes_and_a_Century

"The film's Thai release, originally slated for April 19, 2007, was indefinitely delayed after Thai Censorship Board demanded the removal of four scenes. Apichatpong has refused to recut the film and withdrawn it from domestic circulation. ... Two of the "sensitive" scenes involve doctors engaging in "inappropriate" conduct (kissing and drinking liquor) in a hospital; the others depict Buddhist monks playing a guitar and playing with a toy UFO."

TIT ... I guess.
PeterUK
December 31st, 2007, 13:26
Two of the "sensitive" scenes involve doctors engaging in "inappropriate" conduct (kissing and drinking liquor) in a hospital; the others depict Buddhist monks playing a guitar and playing with a toy UFO."

TIT ... I guess.

And yet, in a ghastly Thai comedy I was unfortunate enough to sit through earlier this year, something about a ka-toey who turns out to be a martial arts expert, there is a scene in which the said character picks up a naked boy aged about two or three and pretends to fellate him to general amusement on screen and off. TIT indeed.