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...irony behind these Third World films is that their makers often were schooled in the U.S. or Europe. Mehrjui is a graduate of UCLA, a few miles from Hollywood. Suleiman went to New York University, a mile up from Wall Street. The Thai film Blissfully Yours was made by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Blissfully was named best film in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, in part because it plays by the minimalist rules of international cinema: a static camera, forlorn characters, lots of driving and a little sex for spice. See what...
...After enduring an intercontinental custody struggle matching that of Elian Gonzalez, four-year-old Phanupong ("Got") Khaisri finally has parents he can call his own. Two years ago, the Thai toddler made headlines when it was discovered his junkie prostitute mother had rented him to smugglers for $250. The smugglers, who used Got as a human prop so they could pass through customs as a vacationing family, were busted in Los Angeles, and Got?abused and hiv-positive?was eventually placed with an American family. Got dodged immediate deportation when a U.S. judge refused to send him back, controversially calling...
...bottles of Beer Chang instead of the opium pipes they had perhaps hoped for. "This is a bit of a bummer, man," moans Robert, a goateed 25-year-old traveler from New Jersey, sporting a knitted cap in Jamaican colors, as he tucks into a plate of oily phad thai. "I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this," he says, as a bus disgorges a load of German package tourists. "I mean, this is the Golden Triangle, man. I was hoping for a bit more ... something...
...Chiang Rai part of the Golden Triangle, take a drive to Phu Chi Fah, one of the most picturesque and unspoiled spots in Thailand. Its name means "mountain points to the sky," and when you arrive you'll realize why. A great finger of earth thrusts up from the Thai border, gesturing heavenward, while hundreds of meters below a seemingly endless valley fans out into Laos, where scattered black peaks sail on a billowing sea of low-lying cloud...
...tread carefully: military experts say the proposed golf course site at the center of the triangle is saturated with land mines. According to Thailand's Deputy Defense Minister, Yuthasak Sasiprapa, explosive antipersonnel devices are strewn along the Thai border as well as liberally sprinkled throughout the Laotian and Cambodian sectors. De-mining the area will cost upwards of $11.5 million, he says, adding to the more than $46 million the Tourism Authority believes it will take to get the project off the ground...