The 12th World Film Festival of Bangkok opens next month. One of this year's highlights will be Fritz Lang's masterpiece
Metropolis, restored with almost thirty minutes of additional footage from a 16mm Brazilian print, screening on 23rd and 25th October. (Metropolis was previously shown at the inaugural World Film Festival in 2003.) This year's Festival also includes Pierrot Le Fou, one of Jean-Luc Godard's early French New Wave films, showing on 21st and 26th October (previously screened as part of
The Godard Week in 2010).
The Festival begins on 17th October, and runs until 26th October. Like the
11th Festival, it will be held at the SF World cinema, CentralWorld. (The
6th,
7th, and
8th Festivals were held at Paragon Cineplex; the
5th,
9th, and
10th took place at Esplanade Cineplex.) The Festival is organised by Kriengsak Silakong, who
I interviewed for Encounter Thailand.
