Apichatpong Weerasethakul

they got their pens from Daddy.

While tearing off a game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But when I do, I don't follow through
Cause my pen belongs to Daddy

If I invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine food and haddie
I just adore, his asking for more
But my pen belongs to Daddy

i dunno if there are any famous london critics rly. the really famous ones, johnny vaughn and jonathan ross, don't actually see the films i don't think. anthony lane actually lives couple miles from where i sit, in cambridge. i dunno where he sees his films though.

Johnny Vaughan is a film critic now?

oh yeah he did that programme where "normal" people review films. the name escapes me

hey so this is gonna be good right? i'm a weerasethakul n00b but this is close. worth finding a coinstar to rustle up $10?

yeah. see the other films too! "Asian Sundays"!

I don't know if this will be "good". He's divisive I suppose. My wife hates his stuff and refuses to attend.

Stupid woman

oh i'm definitely a fan after only seeing 'tropical malady.' are you going?

i'll probably save my $ for the next three cuz i'm broke right now, but it's good to know they're playing. 'syndromes and a century!' thanks for the info.

I want to go but it all depends on my finishing some work in time. It's going to be close!

i wouldn't bother with AW. go with 'the shield' season 6.

Johnny Vaughan is a film critic now?

-- admrl, Sunday, January 6, 2008 10:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

yuh, for 'the sun'.

the shorts will be in the Joe retro in NYC in about 10 days

OUR Joe Retro will be half over by then, do keep up NYC!

That's goin' mighty slow, considering how slender his oeuvre is.

This is the West Coast. Different pace of line, innit? ;)

life

On his short films:

http://tischfilmreview.com/?p=174

Anthem is a wow!

rrrrrrrg want to see

just scored an interview!!

also, cinematheque here doing a retro next month... including anthem!
woohoo!

nice

ya

email interview, not ideal, but still stoked.

Is he attending the retro?

no, unfortunately not!

Neat. Ask him if he's familiar with Boonga Boonga.

i'll ask him what video games he's planning on making into movies.

weird coincidence that you brought up interviewing him on that uwe boll thread yday though!!

very weird.

I have powers I don't even know about yet.

Ask him about bringing shame to his parents

Ask him if he's into lanky, tall redheads.

Syndromes... was my favourite of last year.

also

hi adamrl!

hello you

anthem!!!!!

yes, what a camera lap.

i just saw tropical malady.

it was good. it reminded of something my football coach used to say to me: "that's like trying to fuck a tiger with a wet noodle."

Just watched Syndromes and...well, it underwhelmed me. The transitions, such as they were, didn't make sense to me. I still got the DVD, so I may rewatch it. Anyone want to discuss their experiences with it.

?

I've only seen it once, and my reaction was a shrug:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/movie_review/syndromes-and-a-century.htm

i loved it. really, really loved it. i don't think i have much to say about it though.

or rather, i don't think i could adequately express why it affected me.

I have owned this movie for a while now and keep putting off the "now's the time to watch" evening. I worship Tropical Malady though and have had some correspondence with him - would pretty much work for free to be part of some of his stuff, I think he's an artist of genuine vision

SPOILERS in as much as syndromes can be spoiled:

i saw it at the pictures with a few other people and we all came out thinking totally different things - all positive, but just with so little in common in terms of how we'd received it. i kinda forget exactly what happened/didn't happen now, but so much of its consideration of family went straight over my head.

kinda comparable to one of the claire denis films of the last ten years in its lively ending too

i think they are similar in many ways. esp l'intrus.

man, he has never baffled and annoyed me the way L'intrus did.

i loved it

i thought it was beautiful - funny - strange. it made me laugh out loud. i loved the way the village settings looked, the colours, the blown-out windows and late afternoon light.

i knew i was watching something at least a little cryptic and personal, but i didn't feel shut out - i felt welcomed

i really want to see "anthem". is it a film they show in the cinemas or an installation piece?

"i felt welcomed"

so OTM