Still plenty of documentaries to see

Today at 3 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre is a one-off screening of “Diving Bell: The Truth Shall Not Sink with Sewol”, a controversial account of last year’s South Korean ferry disaster. That’s followed at 5 by Frederick Wiseman’s three-hour opus “National Gallery”, going behind the scenes of an esteemed London art museum.
Tomorrow, the fest moves back to the Thai Film Archive in Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, starting at 1pm with “The Wages of Resistance: Narita Story”, which looks at opposition to airport expansion in the far-flung Tokyo suburbs. And Indo-Dutch director Leonardl Retl Helmrich has another example of his “Single Shot Cinema” with “Promised Paradise”.
The closing entry is the new Thai documentary “Y/Our Music”, which covers unusual and unsung figures of our music scene. That’ll be accompanied by an after-party and live music among the ever-more-lovely grounds of the Archive, which now features a photogenic movie town as backdrop.
It’s not a bad idea to reserve your seats, and you can do so online at bit.ly/booking-for-salayadoc5.

Also opening

In addition to Salaya Doc, another documentary is on order at SF Cinemas with “Citizenfour”, this year’s Academy Award winner. It’s the story of Edward Snowden, the fugitive computer-privacy advocate who blew the whistle on the US National Security Administration’s illegal wiretapping scheme. Part of the Doc Holiday series, it screens only until Sunday at SF World Cinema at CentralWorld and at SFX Maya in Chiang Mai. For tickets, check online at Booking.SFCinemacity.com.

Other openings this week include the DreamWorks Animation feature “Home”, starring the voice of Rihanna; “Outcast’ with Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christiansen as out-of-place Westerner warriors in China; “X+Y”, the maths-infused tale of coming-of-age romance; and “Robot Overlords”, which is about, uh, giant robots.

Also showing

The Friese-Greene Club – Tonight, head to the “pancakes house” with the Coen brothers and their critically acclaimed 1987 black comedy “Fargo”. Tomorrow has the final entry this month from Italian director Guiseppe Tornatore, the 2000 drama “Malena”, in which a beautiful woman disrupts life in a village. And Sunday is the third offering in a tribute to Sir Carol Reed, with the film-noir thriller “Our Man in Havana”. Based on a Graham Greene novel, it stars Alec Guinness as a hapless vacuum-cleaner salesman caught up in an espionage scheme. Shows are at 8pm. For details, check FGC.in.th.

Alliance Francaise – Free French films continue in April with “Me, Myself and Mum”, an autobiographical comedy-drama from actor-director Guillaume Gallienne, who adapts his one-man stage show about his sexually confused upbringing and his love-hate relationship with his domineering mother. It’s in French with English subtitles at 7pm on Wednesday. For details, check AFThailande.org.