The later parts of this footage are probably from the cremation day. You can see the large urn with the king’s body being transferred from the grounds of the Royal Palace. It was gold exterior encasing a silver urn that contained the king's body.
* Malaysia’s Patrick Grove Aims To Go Global With Iflix Video-On-Demand—Forbes Asia
By Susan Cunningham Forbes Asia (This profile appeared in the March 2017 issue of Forbes Asia. Within ten days of its March 1 publication, Richard Quest did an in-person interview on CNN with the subject.) Patrick Y-Kin Grove is leaning against the pool table in Catcha Group's headquarters in the Mid Valley mall-lands of Kuala... Continue Reading →
* Review: Tsai Ming-Liang’s “Face” is kind of mesmerizing
To put it another way: in "Face," Tsai is attempting to convey the collaborative, cumbersome, intimate, creative process. Just as he can only convey to actors what he wants with metaphors and indirection, so these are the only ways he can communicate the process to viewers.
* Reviews from the Bangkok Film Festival—Culture Vulture
The most repugnant deception is the fairy-tale time and place. The narrator
tells us that his parents met "40 years ago." Yet in the late 1950s, the entire
country was wracked by a Mao-induced famine that killed up to 30 million people. Emaciated or bloated from dropsy, the villagers would be scrounging for grass, weeds and bark. And this isn't a fertile, rice-growing area. It appears to be low, thinly-forested hills--the sort of area where the half-dead fed on human flesh. If we push the time up to 1960, there still wouldn't be such abundance ...
* Scenes from a Small Country—Wall Street Journal
It’s an unlikely scenario for a filmmaker from Thailand, especially someone from the dusty northeastern city of Khon Kaen. The son of two doctors, he saw little art and no art–house movies when he was growing up. After earning an architecture degree in Khon Kaen, he enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was there ...
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