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2001-2010

Chatrichalerm Yukol’s Suriyothai is released.   With a budget of approximately 250 million baht it is the most expensive film in Thai history, and the country’s highest grossing film to date. [MORE] [ADD]

Thailand 2001: Other Films of Note

14 Tula Songkram Prachachong (The Moon Hunter) (Bandit Rittakon) [MORE] [ADD]

Jan Dara (Nonzee Nimibutr) [MORE] [ADD]

Kaow Pra Kum Krong (Where is Tong?) (Theerathon Siripanwarapon) [MORE] [ADD]

Khun Paen (Tanit Jitnukun) [MORE] [ADD]

Monrak Transistor (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang) [MORE] [ADD]

Pop Weed Sayong (Body Jumper) (Haeman Chatemee) [MORE] [ADD]

Pra Apai Manee (Chalath Sriwanna) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Ong Bak (Pradya Pinkaew)  [MORE] [ADD]

Prang Choumpu (Saving Private Tootsie) (Kittikorn Reawsirikun)  [MORE] [ADD]

Sibha kham doan sib ed (Mekhong Full Moon Party) (Jira Maligool)  [MORE] [ADD]

Sud sanaeha (Blissfully Yours) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)  [MORE] [ADD]

Taloompuk (Piti Jaturapath)  [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

7 Prajanban (Heaven’s Seven) (Chalerm Womgpim) [MORE] [ADD]

Angulimala (Sutape Tunnirut) [MORE] [ADD]

Beautiful Boxer (Ekachai Uekrongthan) [MORE] [ADD]

Changat 77 Los Angeles (Province 77 Los Angeles) (Smith Tinsawat) [MORE] [ADD]

Kumphapan (February) (Yuthalert Sippapak) [MORE] [ADD]

Satree Lek 2 (Iron Ladies 2) (Yongyuth Thongkongthun) [MORE] [ADD]

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Sud pralad (Tropical Malady) is released.   Banlop Lomnoi and Sakda Kaewbuadee star. [MORE] [ADD]

A new kind of cinema, in which films are delivered by Thaicom satellite to individual rooms of various size which can accommodate 2, 8 or 21 people, is launched in Ratchaburi. [MORE] [ADD]

In the wake of last September's military coup, the Tourism Authority of Thailand advises Film Festival Management Inc. of Beverly Hills, the US management company of the Bangkok Film Festival that it is cutting its ties with them.   The budget for the festival is slashed by $1.1 million. [MORE] [ADD]

– Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Sang Sattawat (Syndromes and a Century) is banned when the director refuses to remove scenes objected to by the country’s censors.   [MORE] [ADD]

Variety reports that the Bangkok Film Festival, which was eventually postponed following last September's military coup, is set to reemerge on a much smaller scale on 19^th July.  [MORE] [ADD]

The Free Thai Cinema Movement delivers a petition signed by artists and scholars to the National Legislative Assembly in protest at the country’s censorship laws.  [MORE] [ADD]

Chattan Kunara na Ayudhya, overseer of the Bangkok Film Festival, cancels a screening of the Cannes Jury Award-winner Persepolis at the request of the Iranian embassy.   The animated film is about an Iranian girl growing up during the Islamic revolution in Iran.    [MORE] [ADD]

14/3 -

Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is ordered to cut an additional scene from Saeng Satawat (Syndromes and a Century) following an unsuccessful appeal against four cuts ordered by censors in 2007. [MORE]

21/3 -

Songyos Sukmaganan’s Pidtermyai huajai wawoon (Hormones) is released.   The film, a four-part teen comedy, stars Charlie Trairat, Focus Jirakul, Sirachat ‘Michael’ Jearthavorn and Chutima Teepanart. [MORE] [ADD]

7/4 -

The supernatural thriller Art of the Devil 3 is released. [MORE] [ADD]

6/5 -

The Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand announce that the troubled Bangkok International Film Festival will go ahead this year, although a date is not specified. [MORE]

8/6 -

Shimit Amin’s Bollywood flick Chak De! India (Come on India) wins eight awards at the Indian International Film Awards in Thailand. [MORE]

16/6 -

The Federation of National Film Associations of Thailand and the Thai Directors' Association announce that the Bangkok Film Festival will take place from the 23^rd to 30^th September, but with a budget of just $750,000, down from $5 million before the 2006 coup d’etat. [MORE] [ADD]

25/7 -

Somsak Techaratanaprasert, the president of Sahamongkol, holds a press conference to confirm that Tony Jaa, the star of the international hit Ong-bak, and director if its sequel Ong-bak 2, has been missing since June. [MORE]

28/7 -

Tony Jaa appears on a TV talk show to counter allegations made by Sahamongkol Film International that he has disappeared after over-spending the 200 million Baht (£3 million) budget for his directorial debut, Ong-bak 2. [MORE]

19/9 -

Japanese director Junji Sakamoto’s child prostitution drama Children of the Dark is pulled from the Bangkok Film Festival by the festival’s directors after they deem it to be ‘not appropriate for Thai society.’ [MORE]

17/2 -

The government passes four draft rules to enable the introduction of the country’s first film rating system in May 2009. [MORE]

23/2 -

Wonderful Town, Aditya Assarat's love story set in a small town after the 2004 tsunami, wins five awards, including best film and best director, at the Subhanahongsa Awards. [MORE]   

4/6 - 

David Carradine’s naked body is discovered hanging by the neck in a closet in a Bangkok hotel room.   Contradictory reports suggest he either committed suicide or accidentally killed himself while attempting auto-erotic asphyxiation.   The 72-year-old actor recently enjoyed a resurgence in his career following a role in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill in 2004. [MORE]