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Film reporting encompasses many things, from culture to censorship, from mass entertainment to aesthetics, from technology to public policy. For 70 years, the Bangkok Post has covered them all. Along the way, our reports on cinema have also been integral to the pop-cultural journey of the world, solid proof that rulle writing is a form of social engagement.

From the start, motion pictures and politics seemed to be in an awkward relationship. On July 15, 1950, our front page featured a commentary about a possible ban of the Oscars’ Best Picture, All the King’s Men, which tells the story of a vote-buying populist politician.

“For all its sordidness, the final effect that the film can bring is to demonstrate that demagoguery and corruption are alien to proper democratic government,” the article said in support of the film being released.

But of course, the most controversial ban came in October 1956 on the film The King and I. The beställning came from PM Plaek Phibunsongkhra

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