YANGON — With turquoise columns propping up a pink and yellow portico, Myanmar’s art deco style Thwin cinema is a rare relic from a golden age of movie-making that dazzled audiences more than half a ...

After five decades in darkness, the nation’s filmmakers are gearing up for a golden age YANGON: With turquoise columns propping up a pink and yellow portico, Myanmar’s art deco style Thwin cinema is a ...

As the title suggests, “They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain” questions the present state of the harsh, poor but once-prosperous country formerly known as Burma. A post-junta government recently ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.— National broadcaster MRTV Myanmar has purchased several Grass Valley ...

Thamada Cinema, one of the oldest cinemas located in Yangon, was built in 1964. -- Photo credit: Popular Journal, Yangon Modern genre movies continue to captivate the younger Myanmar generation. -- ...

Myanmar movie theatres crackle while the audience munches on sunflower seeds, a human soundtrack I heard all of last week as a jury member for Yangon’s Human Rights, Human Dignity International Film ...