OTHER NOTEWORTHY SCREENINGS THIS WEEKEND
Happy Hour At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Tomorrow the monthly Cinema Diverse series will screen the acclaimed five-hour Japanese film Happy Hour. Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, the film concerns four women who examine the meaning of life, love and relationship. The film, despite its 317-minute run time, has been praised by critics and audiences for the complexity of the script and the humanistic touch it gives to its four leads — housewives or “ex-housewives” — who’re confronted with life choices. Happy Hour has been described by some as a sophisticated Sex And The City. The screening at BACC is part of a series in which five Thai female movie directors are asked to pick one film to show. Happy Hour was picked by Pimpaka Towira. The screening starts at 2.30pm, with an intermission. Tickets cost 60 baht.
Czech animation At Reading Room
The Embassy of the Czech Republic in the Kingdom of Thailand, with Film Virus and The Reading Room present a two-day special screening programme of Czech animation, and a presentation by Keiko Sei, an independent curator and film scholar, tomorrow and Sunday at The Reading Room, Silom 19.
The history of animation would not be complete without names such as Jirí Trnka, Karel Zeman and Jan Švankmajer who established Czech animation throughout the world since mid-1920s until today with its special characteristics of an absence of uniformity, a strong desire to search and a considerable individualism, a respect for film language and, finally, humanity which can go as far as self-irony.
The screening is free of charge and starts at 1pm.
Cherd Songsri tribute
Thai Film Archive organises a tribute to Cherd Songsri, the late Thai master filmmaker. Tomorrow, the archive will screen his 1979 film Lued Supan and the all-time classic Phlae Kao ( The Scar, 1980), a timeless tale of forbidden romance set amid the bucolic fields of Bang Kapi. On Sunday the programme includes the 1983 film Puen Pang and the 1992 film Southern Winds. Free admission. The screening starts at 1pm at Film Archive in Salaya.