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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
I'm not sure what Chocolate and Thomas Clay have to do with each other, other than that they both have something to do with Thailand. Anyway, Prachya Pinkaew's martial arts hit Chocolate and Clay's meditative film noir Soi Cowboy , along with two other films by Clay, are playing at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in the Thomas Clay Panorama . Also showing will be Clay's, Motion and The Great Ecstasy...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
This year's event, the 22nd, features a splendid mix of high and lowbrow cinema. You can, if your taste is wide enough, enjoy the excellent doc Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky, Thomas Clay's artsy, experimental Soi Cowboy and the quirky Slovakian semi-doc Blind Loves, before plummeting into B-movie world with the gutsy Ozploitation doc Not Quite Hollywood and the aptly titled Tokyo Gore Police. It's great...
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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Written and directed by Thomas Clay Starring Nicolas Bro, Pimwalee Thampanyasan Reviewed on September 25, 2008, Asian Premiere at Bangkok International Film Festival Rating: 5/5 What's strange about watching the movie Soi Cowboy in Thailand is that it takes a moment to adjust to the background noises. The first half of the film mainly takes place inside the Bangkok apartment a portly farang is sharing...
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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
I've not heard much about Soi Cowboy since it premiered in the Un Certain Regard program at the Cannes Film Festival back in May. Produced by DeWarrenne Pictures and directed by Thomas Clay, the Anglo-Thai production garnered mixed reviews for its bifurcated structure -- similar to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films -- with the first half in black and white and the second half in color. The first half...
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
"Brit helmer Thomas Clay's sophomore feature, Soi Cowboy, demonstrates a growing maturity," writes Leslie Felperin in Variety. "This slowburning, enigmatic drama, mostly about a Danish man and a Thai woman awkwardly living together in Bangkok, is deeper and more likeable...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Film Reviews: Brit helmer Thomas Clay's sophomore feature, "Soi Cowboy," demonstrates a growing maturity.