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movies from asia

mathowie — Mon, 24 May 2004 12:27:49 -0800

Pictures and movies from Southeast Asia. The gem of the site is "Traffic Ballet" (wmv file) on the movie page. The photo galleries are pretty good too.

By: armage

armage — Mon, 24 May 2004 12:38:36 -0800

Very nice. Almost exactly what I imagine when I think of south and SE Asia.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 24 May 2004 12:43:33 -0800

nice site. thanks for the link.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Mon, 24 May 2004 13:05:47 -0800

hillarious!

By: christy

christy — Mon, 24 May 2004 14:47:35 -0800

man, the ballet is awesome. why does anyone own a car in bangkok?

By: dakotadusk

dakotadusk — Mon, 24 May 2004 16:03:08 -0800

After watching that movie, it's time to update some lyrics... One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister A little flesh, a little history I can see some bikers and they're passing me

By: matteo

matteo — Mon, 24 May 2004 16:21:45 -0800

really good link -- thanks. on a more, let's say, professional (as in higher-budgeted) level, there's a marvelous Thai movie that has recently been shown at the TriBeCa Film Festival and is currently looking for a US distributor: Last Life in the Universe

By: matteo

matteo — Mon, 24 May 2004 16:24:35 -0800

LLITU official site (heavy flash stuff) here

By: Electrin

Electrin — Mon, 24 May 2004 19:04:50 -0800

Armage: Most of SEA isn't quite like that. It's just the touristy bits. :)

By: i_cola

i_cola — Mon, 24 May 2004 20:06:32 -0800

I'll humble self-link The Sky Bar, probably the scariest bar in the world and The Golden Palace which is just plain amazing. Both in Bangkok, the greatest city in the world.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Mon, 24 May 2004 20:21:21 -0800

humbly Stupid fingers.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 24 May 2004 22:15:44 -0800

You and your Sky Bar, i_cola. :) Personally, I never saw a more attractive crowd than the one at Velvet Underground, in Singapore (connected with the slightly more infamous Zouk, but IMHO far nicer). And while I agree nothing quite beats dangling from the top of a skyscraper, HK's Kee Club does have its own Picasso's. Which is nice. Oh, and I humbly offer in retort to your Golden Palace the entire city of Luang Prabang, Laos.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 24 May 2004 22:26:40 -0800

Sorry for the travel masturbation. There used to be a great traffic cam of BKK online, but it's sadly unavailable. So instead you can watch some Thai kids in their classroom, or follow around the Thai Web Cam Man who walks around broadcasting pics of wherever he is in Thailand.

By: Pericles

Pericles — Tue, 25 May 2004 01:51:29 -0800

"man, the ballet is awesome. why does anyone own a car in bangkok?" - because of all the motorcycle RTAs, known as "reading the newspaper" (self-link)

By: armage

armage — Tue, 25 May 2004 09:44:11 -0800

Electrin: Oh, yeah, I know -- these sorts of things are also what I think of when I picture SE Asia. But the movies remind me of the hustle and bustle of urban Bangkok or Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur.