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February 17, 2006
It's Time for Real "Buffs"!
Yes! Here it comes again....
The Bangkok International Film Festival 2006 has been organized by Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) for 3 years. As it's been quite internationally successful for the former ones, so this year...here we go again - the event that all movie buffs have always longed for.
Anyways, the arrangement this year is quite different, seemingly worse - theatres, tickets, box offices, etc. All movies are shown only at Siam Paragon Cineplex and tickets are also available for booking there only. Things that really bother us this year are concerning these arrangements. First, the information provided on website "sucks" - unwell-prepared, as the movie schedule just came out about two days before the opening while the informations about box office has never been clear until the box office itself finally opened. My boyfriend, Dan, had to show up at Siam Paragon "everyday" from Tue 14th to Fri 17th the opening just trying to buy some tickets and he ended up getting nothing but some "useless" information. We also heard that a bunch of people also complained about this.
Second, some of the staffs are not very professionally well-trained. I respect those who "volunteer" to work for this event, but still the quality and their capacity of work should be able to be criticized though. It's sort of "international" event which all international, espacially bi-lingual staffs should be fully provided. I found they basically didn't have enough.
However, it doesn't seem to be perfectly bad at all. Some good things we still can find in BFF2006 are definitely "movies" themselves. This year there're still a lot of interesting movies in various categories as well. So we could at least still enjoy the movies around. Also we're quite thankful to some staffs for how they take care of us, well...as we're understood as sort of foreign press, but anyways...I really appreciate that lady who led our way into the theatre since we lost our tickets for that show.
Alright...then, I think that's about it.
So....from now, it's time to enjoy our favourite kind of Arts, MOVIESSSSS! :)
Posted by art at February 17, 2006 02:40 AM