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| | Cinema-Tourism: The 4th International Bangkok Film Festival, 16 - 25 November 2001 |
 | | Very few, if any, cinemas in Bangkok exist independent of a shopping mall structure; it is the co-evolution of movies and shopping, where commercials are played alongside trailers before the start of a film, and the two, or even three, look virtually the same. |
 | | The Bangkok Film Festival was as much (if not more) an elaborate advertising campaign as it was a celebration of contemporary cinema, and mingling its commodity status with artistic vision, the cinema of the region offered an unusual outlet for tourism. |
 | | World Cinema films, by contrast, were honest and provocative, and as Asian films made abroad (almost all World Cinema films featured Asian actors or directors), they explored the tougher issues of reconciling Asian identity to a Western world. |
| www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/01/18/bangkok_yue.html (595 words) |
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