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Ticketing Info to Retrospective Screenings
Each ticket to the retrospective screenings is $8 / $7
concession. Tickets are available at The Substation box
office
from 1 September 2005 onwards. Opening hours: Monday to Friday
12 - 8.30 pm, Tel: 65-6337 7800. For enquires, please call or email
forum@asianfilmarchive.org.
Ask for one free pass from the box office to the panel
session: Focus on Pen-ek Ratanaruang when you make your
purchase, at the same time, of all 4 tickets to Pen-ek
Ratanaruang’s retrospective screenings. First come first served.
Subject to availability.
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Funbar Karaoke (1996)
In the modern Bangkok, young Pu dreams every
night of her dead mother. She sees her every
night, always building the same house. One day,
a fortune-teller tells her that her father will
die when the house is finished. The father
spends all nights in his favorite karaoke where
he sings, drinks and has fun with women. But he
falls in love with Yok, a call-girl who
"belongs" to a young chinese gangster.
(From Thai Film Foundation)
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Ticket Price:
$7/8
Date:
11 September, 05
Sunday
Time:
1900
Duration:
100 min
Venue:
Singapore History Museum
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Ruang talok 69 (6ixtynin9) (1999)
Gangsters. Job loss. Thai Boxing. A noodle box
full of money. These are the essential
ingredients peppered throughout 6IXTYNIN9, which
combine to leave a delicious and satisfying
taste in the mouth once consumed. Tum (Lalita
Panyopas) discovers the box of loot on her
doorstep one morning while trying to recover
from being fired from her job. Attempting to do
the right thing for herself, she conceals the
cash and hopes she'll be able to spend it
without the real owners ever finding out that
she has it. Big mistake. For Tum finds herself
caught up in the whirlwind lifestyle of some
Thai Boxing gangsters, who are keen to rekindle
their missing money. A wonderfully incisive
comedy from director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang,
6IXTYNIN9 is the perfect illustration of a Thai
film industry that finds itself flourishing at
the start of the 21st century.
Awards: Won Don Quixote Award - Special Mention
at Berlin International Film Festival 2000;
FIPRESCI Prize at Hong Kong International Film
Festival 2000; Won Chameleon Best Feature Film
at Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival;
Nominated Tiger Award at Rotterdam International
Film Festival; Nominated Silver Screen Award for
Best Asian Feature Film at Singapore
International Film Festival
"Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang's splatter
comedy 6ixtynin9 rejoices in a plot as tricky as
its spelling."
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
"Enlivens some dingy genre predicaments
(dirty money, corpse disposal) with gusts of
dreamlike whimsy and a sardonic take on local
economic woes."
Dennis Lim, Village Voice |
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Ticket Price:
$7/8
Date:
11 September, 05
Sunday
Time:
2100
Duration:
114 min
Venue:
Singapore History Museum
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Monrak Transistor (2001)
Pan is an upcountry dimwit who loves to sing.
Whenever any temple fair is held, he is always
there on stage, showing all of his moves and
style as the lead singer of his local band. He
meets Sadaw, it’s love at first sight, at one of
these temple fairs and against her father’s
wishes, they got married. When Sadaw is five
months pregnant Pan gets drafted into the army.
While in boot camp, he enters a singing contest
and won second place. So he decides to run away
from the army to join the band and follow his
dream. He spends two years in Bangkok and Pan’s
dream is still just a dream. Worst, dreams soon
turn to a nightmare, as Pan finds himself
incarcerated for series of heinous crimes. He
misses the simple upcountry life in a tiny house
near the canal where a sound from a small
transistor can bring plenty of happiness. But
most of all he misses Sadaw, his true love, and
the baby whom he has never seen.
Awards: Won Best Actor at Asia-Pacific Film
Festival 2002;
Won Asian Trade Winds Award at Seattle
International Film Festival 2002; Won Reader
Jury of the "Standard" at Viennale 2002; Jury
Special Mention at Durban IFF 2003; Selected for
Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2002; Hawaii,
London, Melbourne, Pusan, Seattle, Stockholm,
Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna 2002, Barcelona
Asian, Cinema Novo (Brugge), Helsinki, Hong
Kong, NAT (Copenhagen), Philadelphia, Portland,
Rotterdam, Singapore; Thai Entry for the Academy
Awards 2003
"A racily picaresque and sentimental tale,
which pays homage to traditional Thai pop/folk
music and also to Thai cinema."
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"I am not a fan of romantic comedy, but in
this instance, I am won over, and highly
recommend this film. "
Wong Lung Hsiang, Filmasia
"an amazing achievement…it’s not an exercise
in post-modern irony but a touching and
deathlessly sincere picaresque."
Tony Raynes, film critic |
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Ticket Price:
$7/8
Date:
12 September '05 Monday
Time:
1900
Duration:
115 min
Venue:
Singapore History MuseumM18 |
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Last Life in Universe (2003)
“Kenji” is a suicide-obsessed Japanese man
living in Bangkok. One night he accidentally
kills a yakuza gang member who is after his
brother. “Noi” is a Thai working girl living in
a burnt-out beach town of Pattaya. The same
night Kenji kills the yakuza, Noi accidentally
kills her sister. Kenji and Noi hide out
together and spend the most awkward 3 days
hoping to find love, life and redemption.
Awards: Won FIPRESCI Award at Bangkok IFF 2004,
Grand Jury Prize at the World Film Festival in
Bangkok 2004, Best Actor Award (Asano Tadanobu),
Upstream Competition - Venice 2003, Thailand's
Official Entry for the 2004 Academy Awards;
Selected for Rotterdam Film Festival, Cannes,
Filmex Tokyo, Films from the South/Oslo, Hawaii
IFF, Ljubljana IFF, London IFF, MIFED, Pusan IFF,
Taipei Golden Horse FF, Toronto IFF, Vancouver
IFF, Venice IFF
"Last Life doesn't just confirm Pen-ek's
reputation as Thai's finest commercial
filmmaker; it propels him into the ranks of the
most consistently innovative filmmakers working
anywhere in the world. Strange, funny, tender,
and subtly devastating – Last Life is a minor
masterpiece."
Chuck Stephens, Film Comment |
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Ticket Price:
$7/8
Date:
12 September '05 Monday
Time:
2100
Duration:
112 min
Venue:
Singapore History MuseumM18 |
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