Saturday, January 30, 2010

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Oriental Eyes Shakes the Thai Film Industry with Presence of Shawn Yue in Its 2010 Big Project, My Best Bodyguard

Oriental Eyes Co., Ltd., proudly announced a pleasant surprise of Hong Kong actor’s presence in My Best Bodyguard, the action-packed film directed by Sirippakorn Wongchariyawat. It is no one but Shawn Yue, whose Infernal Affairs trilogy and Initial D are unforgettable,and who famously opposites Josh Hartnett in I Come with the Rain and worked with such renowned directors as the Pang Brothers. Besides, he, together with Ekin Cheng, also won the Best Male Actor Award for Rule Number One (Dai yat gaai) at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in 2008.


My Best Bodyguard is Shawn Yue’s first Thai film. His role is Sean, a businessman working for an international medicine company, who developed a new kind of vaccine for human immunity. His character is brilliant, ingenious and successful. However, his interest in financial benefits and power may pose a real risk to all mankind.

Of Shawn Yue, Wongchariyawat said, “I really admire his performance, especially his use of eye expression. Something was shone and shown from within. Inner feeling. That’s why we thought of him, when we looked for an actor for the Sean role. It was such a delight when he said yes to My Best Bodyguard.”

Shawn Yue himself revealed why he made a decision to participate in this Thai film with Oriental Eyes, the Thai crew and, most important of all, HRH Princess Ubolratana of Thailand, “Of course, it is my first Thai film. I’ve been here before for working with Hong Kong film crew. But this is my first time to work with Thai people – Thai director, Thai actors and actresses. What a rare chance. Although that a little bit thrills me, I really feel delighted. Furthermore, as I’ve been here in Thailand before, I know Thai culture. Like the Thai people, it is my greatest honour; it’s way beyond my imagination that I have an opportunity to work with HRH Princess Ubolratana of Thailand. It gives me enormous pleasure.

“Finally, I’d like to say ‘Hello’ to all Thai fans. Please support this film. If you like me, I need your support for my first Thai film.”

Get ready to see Shawn Yue’s role in his first Thai film, My Best Bodyguard. In Mid 2010. In Theatres nationwide.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Hollywood legend Oliver Stone builds “Bridges” with Thai superstars

Hollywood legend Oliver Stone is set to visit Bangkok on January 25 as a keynote speaker in the 3rd ASEAN event series “Bridges – Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace”. The visit is facilitated by the International Peace Foundation and will include Oliver Stone’s keynote speeches on “Film-making and peace-building” on January 25 at 10 am at the New International School of Thailand and at 8 pm at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand. On the occasion of his visit to Bangkok Oliver Stone will also meet some of Thailand’s most promising actors including Mario Maurer and Sukrit Wisetkaew (BIE The Star), among others.


Oliver Stone is an American film director, screenwriter and producer whose work has earned him three Academy Awards (Oscars), namely for his movies Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, both centered on the Vietnam War, and for Midnight Express. Some of his most recent films include JFK, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Alexander, World Trade Center and W. He just concluded the filming of Wall Street 2 with Michael Douglass set for release in April 2010. He has also worked with actors such as Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The 3rd ASEAN “Bridges” program is the continuation of a series of 350 “Bridges” events which the International Peace Foundation has already hosted in Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia since 2003. 35 Nobel Laureates as well as 14 other keynote speakers and artists including Dr. Hans Blix, Jackie Chan, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Vanessa-Mae, Jessye Norman and Dr. James Wolfensohn participated in these events which continuously support education as a basis for peace and development in the ASEAN region. Events in Thailand were presided over by Her Majesty Queen Sirikit and Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and reached up to now a total audience of 120,000 participants. Former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun is the Honorary Chairman of “Bridges” in Thailand.

The current 3rd ASEAN “Bridges” series involves 50 events which since November 2009 continuously run in Thailand (as well as in Cambodia and the Philippines) until April 2010. The events include the participation of Nobel Laureates for Peace such as East Timor President Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta as well as Nobel Laureates for Economics, Physics, Chemistry and Medicine. Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan and classical pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy are also part of the program. After his visit to Thailand Oliver Stone will head to Cambodia with “Bridges” events planned there on January 27 at the International School of Phnom Penh and at the University of Cambodia. The university will also confer an honorary doctor degree to Oliver Stone.

The detailed program of all “Bridges” events is available on the website www.peace-foundation.net.
Oliver Stone’s biography:

Oliver Stone is an American film director, screenwriter and producer whose work, frequently focusing on contemporary political and cultural issues, has earned him three Academy Awards (Oscars), namely for directing Platoon, filmed in the Philippines and starring Willem Dafoe, (1986) and directing Born on the Fourth of July starring Tom Cruise (1989), which were both centered on the Vietnam War, and for writing Midnight Express starring John Hurt (1978). A Hollywood legend, his films have been nominated for a total of 31 Oscars. Born on the Fourth of July alone earned eight Oscar nominations and was one of Oliver Stone’s most successful films.

Oliver Stone was born in New York City to a father who was a Jewish stockbroker and a Roman Catholic mother of French birth. He was raised an Episcopalian as a compromise, but now practices Buddhism.

After dropping out from Yale University and teaching English at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam, Oliver Stone, enlisted for combat duty as an infantryman in the Vietnam War and was awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. After returning home, he graduated from Film School at New York University in 1971 where he was mentored by director Martin Scorsese.

Oliver Stone directed Seizure in 1974, The Hand starring Michael Caine in 1981, Salvador starring James Woods and Jim Belushi in 1986, Wall Street, a film focusing on the greedy business world of tycoons and stockbrokers which earned Michael Douglas an Oscar for Best Actor in 1987, Talk Radio starring Eric Bogosian and Alec Baldwin in 1988, The Doors starring Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in 1991, Heaven & Earth starring Tommy Lee Jones, a film made in Thailand about the true story of Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese girl whose life has been drastically affected by the Vietnam war, in 1993, Natural Born Killers starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis in 1994, Nixon starring Anthony Hopkins in 1995 and U-Turn starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez in 1997.

JFK, arguably Oliver Stone’s best film, was released in 1991. It centers on the assassination of John F. Kennedy with Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones in leading roles. The film represented a change in Oliver Stone’s work as he began to explore different camera styles combining them together to create a multi-dimensional way of experiencing a movie. Following JFK’s release Oliver Stone addressed the U.S. Senate over the continued secrecy of documents relating to the John F. Kennedy assassination. Partly through his efforts the government began to declassify documents.

Other films written by Oliver Stone are Conan the Barbarian, the movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star, (1982), Scarface starring Al Pacino (1983), Year of the Dragon starring Mickey Rourke (1985), 8 Million Ways to Die starring Andy Garcia (1986) and Evita starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas (1996).

He also produced the films Reversal of Fortune, which earned Jeremy Irons an Oscar in 1990, The Joy Luck Club in 1993, Milos Forman’s Oscar nominated classic The People vs. Larry Flynt, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Killer: A Journal of Murder and Freeway in 1996, Savior and Assassinated: The Last Days of King and Kennedy in 1998, The Corruptor in 1999, The Art of War in 2000 and The Day Reagan Was Shot in 2001.

In 1993 Oliver Stone produced a series for ABC Television called Wild Palms which has developed a cult following and has recently been released on DVD. In 1997 he published A Child's Night Dream, a 1,400 pages strong and largely autobiographical novel based on his experiences in Southeast Asia. In 2003 he made two documentary films: Persona Non Grata about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Comandante about Cuban President Fidel Castro, followed, in 2004, by a second documentary on Castro titled Looking for Fidel.

In the past decade Oliver Stone has directed Any Given Sunday starring Al Pacino, Charlton Heston and Cameron Diaz (1999), Alexander starring Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie (2004), a biopic about Alexander the Great which was partly filmed in Thailand, and World Trade Center starring Nicolas Cage (2006), which centered on two Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) officers during the September 11, 2001, attacks. Stone's latest film is a biopic about George W. Bush, named W., starring Josh Brolin and Richard Dreyfuss (2008). He is currently filming Wall Street 2, starring Shia LaBeouf and again Michael Douglas (2010).

In 2008 Oliver Stone accompanied Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's President and self-appointed negotiator with the Colombian guerilla group known as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), on a mission to secure the release of three hostages held for over six years. This was part of his research for a documentary with Chavez and 8 other heads of state in South American titled South of the Border (2010).

Oliver Stone is currently working on a 10-hour/10-part series for Showtime called The Secret History of the United States, and a third interview with Fidel Castro for 2010.

Asian –European Artists Gather at Patravadi Theatre

The BOW Project Celebrates Contemporary Dance, Film and Music From Around the World


The BOW Project artists from Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, New York, Malaysia, Belgium and Beijing will bring together “The Final BOW” an evening of dance, film and music from around the world on 16 January 2010 at Patravadi Theatre.

The BOW Project is a cross-cultural collaboration of five artists from Asia and Europe. They are film/dance artist Rannvá Káradóttir ( Denmark), dancer/choreographers Cathy Seago (UK), Shi Jing Xin (China), Mei-Yin Ng (Malaysia) and composer/musician Emmanuel Bally (Belgium), who first met in 2007 in Beijing during the cross cultural exchange project Pointe-to-point. The BOW Project is about exchanging and renewing ideas about movement, from within their own and other cultures. The artists will produce a live performance event “The Final Bow” at Patravadi Theatre and a short film which will go on to be shown at Festivals to international audiences during 2010.

An evening to conclude their three-week residency in Thailand, in“The Final BOW”, the five artists will bring from home a piece of work to be presented in a mixed bill in the first half of the program. In the second half of the program, the artists will present the creation a new performance “BOW” which is the product of their residency. “BOW” is an intertextual dance and music performance where the artists move across genres to connect through a collective performance. Also will be shown during the evening is a documentary “Amazing Grace” made by Ans Kanen and Han de Bruin during Pointe to Point 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum.

Workshops on dance, music and film will also be conducted by the artists during their residency at Patravadi Theatre. Please contact the theatre by email patravaditheatre@gmail.com or call 024127287 for details.

The BOW project is supported by the Asia Europe Foundation as a follow project of the 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum.

EVENT: “The Final BOW” an evening of dance, live music and film from around the world.
DATE/TIME: 16 Jan 2010 (Sat) 7:30pm
VENUE: Theatre-in-the-Garden, Patravadi Theatre
TICKETS: 300B. 100B (Student)

Tickets are now available at Total Reservation, the public can contact www.totalreservation.com or hotline 02-833-5555 to book the tickets. Total Reservation branches: Siam Paragon, Emporium, IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, BTS Mo Chit, BTS Victory Monument, The Mall: Bangkae, Bangkapi, Thapra, Ramkhamhaeng, Ngamwongwan.

Visit www.patravaditheatre.com, www.bowproject.wordpress.com for more information on The BOW Project.
Press inquiry:
Toby To (International Programme Director, Patravadi Theatre)
patravaditheatre@gmail.com 02412 7287-8 (Tel) 08 9153 0682 (mobile)
PROGRAMME of “The Final BOW”

With works from Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, New York, Malaysia, Belgium and Beijing we present a program of dance, film and music from around the world. The five artists have brought from home a piece of work which is presented here in Patravadi Theatre in a mixed bill in the first half of the programme. In the second half of the programme, a newly-created piece BOW by all participating artists during their residency in Thailand will be premiered.
1. Rannvá Káradóttir ( Denmark)
Title: Memotech / Memotekið - 5.58 min.
Media: Dance film
2. Cathy Seago (UK)
Title: Concept excerpts from DUOD
Media: Dance performance
3. Shi Jing Xin (China)

Title:Xia Xie Bo Wa-White/A dance for the God - 8.min (excerpt of “Peace plan into Tibet” 2009)?Media: Dance performance and Video
4. Mei-Yin Ng (Malaysia)
Title: Cinderella Toe Jam
Media: Dance
5. Emmanuel Bally (Belgium)
Title: choral III variations ?Media: Music
--- INTERVAL 15.MIN ---
6. Title: BOW
Devised, Developed and Performed by: Cathy Seago, Shi Jing Xin, Mei-Yin NG
Music by: Emmanuel Baily and the Wang Wei Quartet
Film: Rannva Karadottir

An intertextual dance and music performance where the artists move across genres and connect through a collective performance, gathering their individual experience of this journey though the wide range of cultures and practices represented.

• During the evening the documentary Amazing Grace, made by Ans Kanen and Jan de Bruin during Pointe to Point 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum will be shown.