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Film-watching happens alone now, mostly, on a screen the size of a hand. Bangkok Kunsthalle would rather you sat in a dark room with other people, which is the whole premise of Sunday Cinema, its film programme for the second half of the year. Curated by Rosalia 'Namsai' Engchuan, screenings run every two weeks at the Bangkok Kunsthalle Screening Room, a modest space in the old Thai Wattana Panich printing house on Charoen Krung, where the building's history sits in plain view around you.
The selection gathers Thai classics, internationally garlanded work and recent films that still ask difficult questions about how we live. Postwar Japan one fortnight, the Amazon the next, then Mongolia, the Thai countryside, present-day Italy. The films speak to each other across decades.
Sunday Cinema screening programme:
- July 19 – 2046
- August 2 – Fitzcarraldo
- August 15 – Drive My Car
- August 30 – Forever Yours (Chua Fah Din Salai)
- September 13 – The Songs of Rice
- September 27 – Shoplifters
- October 16 – Hiroshima Mon Amour
- October 25 – Country Hotel
- November 8 – Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia
- November 22 – La Chimera
- December 6 – Perfect Days
- December 20 – The Village Boss (Saming Ban Rai)
Wong Kar-wai's love that never returns. Wim Wenders and a Tokyo toilet cleaner who finds his days sufficient. Herzog hauling a steamship over a hill because someone wants an opera house. Kore-eda's assembled family, stealing to stay together. Memory, work, loss, migration, dreams that stand no chance. Taken as a whole, the list reads like an honest account of the world outside the door.
Admission costs nothing. Screenings start at 5.30pm. Reserve on Ticketmelon in advance, since seats are limited and staff check bookings at the door.