Word: apichatpong
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...spot anything offensive about the following scenes from Syndromes and a Century, the dreamy new $1.1 million movie by Thai director and Cannes 2004 Prix du Jury winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul: a Buddhist monk strums a battered guitar; two monks play with a remote-controlled flying saucer in a park; a doctor kisses his girlfriend in a locker room; a group of doctors share a bottle of whiskey in a hospital basement...
...boozing and smooching docs might set a bad example for medical practitioners, but what's wrong with flying saucers or a musical monk? Apichatpong, 37, spent two years filming the story, based loosely on the lives of his physician parents, and says he doesn't know why Thailand's censors wanted to cut the four scenes. He also refused to play along. So Syndromes, which opened last month in London as part of an Apichatpong season at BFI Southbank, won't be showing anytime soon in Bangkok. "I'm sick of this system," the director sighs...
...There's certainly a degree of dark humor in Apichatpong's latest predicament. Frustrated, and with the domestic prints of Syndromes currently in police custody, he has found inspiration for his next project, a film about censorship in Thailand with the working title of Primitive. The only problem is that there's no guarantee anyone in Thailand will be able...
...After years of biting their tongues in public over censorship, filmmakers are now finding their voice - and not just art-house mavericks like Apichatpong. The Thai Film Directors' Association is lobbying lawmakers not to pass the act in its current form. Prachya Pinkaew, director of international martial-arts hits Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong, now sports a NO CUT, NO BAN anticensorship T shirt...
...Culture is a jump cut from the frying pan into the fire, especially in the postcoup climate, when political and social conservatism are on the rise. Ladda counters that the audience is on her side when it comes to choosing a flick. "Nobody goes to see films by Apichatpong," she says. "Thai people want to see comedy. We like a laugh...