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What's your favorite film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul?

haven't seen any
3 (18.8%)
don't like any
3 (18.8%)
other
0 (0%)
Mysterious Object at Noon
0 (0%)
Blissfully Yours
1 (6.3%)
The Adventures of Iron Pussy
1 (6.3%)
Tropical Malady
2 (12.5%)
Syndromes and a Century
3 (18.8%)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
3 (18.8%)
Mekong Hotel
0 (0%)
Cemetery of Splendor
0 (0%)
Memoria
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 16

Author Topic: Weerasethakul, Apichatpong  (Read 9667 times)

mañana

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2012, 08:39:41 PM »
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)

Gentle. Playful. Pleasant. A nice world to visit.
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There's no deceit in the cauliflower.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2012, 09:53:46 PM »
I will track down his shorts and Syndromes and a Century.. For now,

Tropical Malady
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee


Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Syndromes of a Century (A)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (A)
Tropical Malady (A-)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (B+)

I don't know why, but Syndromes & a Century has grown on me. The mystery of the piece has stuck with me for a long time along with the layers upon layers of narratives.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2012, 02:09:22 PM »
Syndromes & A Century
Uncle Boonmee
Tropical Malady

Love them all.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« Reply #24 on: June 05, 2012, 07:07:06 PM »
Ashes (Weerasethakul, 2012)
Joe experiments with the LomoKino camera. I'm not really sure what it's all about or if it's even about something specific. All I know is that it gave me the same wonderful simultaneously happy and wistful feeling I get from watching his films. His pet themes are certainly present here - the bifurcated structure, repetition and contrast, a sense of loss and memory and of course, fireworks and jokes!

There also seems to be some political stuff, particularly in reference to Thailand's Lèse-Majesté law which has been in the news lately when a 61-year old man was imprisoned for purportedly sending text messages that were deemed offensive to the monarchy and he ended up dying in prison.

Joe's approach with the camera is certainly playful. It's all rather jerky at the start as we follow a man walking a dog. But even there, he manages to do some really interesting thing like making sunlight look like a ghostlike apparition walking alongside people. He plays around with horizontal splitscreens and overlapping images. Some really fun use of music and bird sounds as well. Just Joe goodness <3.
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Re: Directors Best Poll - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« Reply #26 on: June 13, 2012, 10:42:56 AM »
More Joe love.

Video essay by Vadim Rizov and Kevin B. Lee on The Anthem .

It's part a series of video essays in anticipation of the new Sight & Sound poll. I've only seen this one and the one by Adrian Martin for Philippe Garrel's L'enfant Secret. They are both really great.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« Reply #27 on: May 12, 2013, 01:58:41 AM »
Has anyone seen or found Mekong Hotel?

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« Reply #28 on: May 12, 2013, 08:30:36 AM »
worm's seen it. Mekong Hotel is online.

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Re: Directors Best Poll - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« Reply #29 on: May 12, 2013, 09:15:10 AM »
Syndromes and a Century
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives?
Tropical Malady
Ashes