Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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.

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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

i saw anthem at the cinemthque quebecoise

"phantoms of nabua" which is AMAZING i saw in a museum

why doesn't he put these shorts on his website? (I ask not knowing if he has one)

come on morbs u of all people should understand there's a difference b/w a cinema or a gallery and a web page

yeah, but we get to see the shorts in NY every 3-5 years or so!

i was actually in toronto when "Phantoms of Nabua" was on and i didn't even know about it ;_;

I did love the use of light -- the sunlight coming through windows, coloring the actors in soft, almost pastel hues. The monks were funny.

I dunno. I'll rewatch it, but I prefered Blissfully Yours (even with its longeurs) and especially Tropical Malady.

online premiere:

http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1406

cool. i saw that, liked "phantoms" better but it is worth seeing.

Nice! Will watch when I get home.

thinking about syndromes, which i just saw a few days ago, i think there are the dualities morbz talks about in his review above, most of which have featured in earlier films of his -- nature vs. civilization, the pagan vs. the scientific, love vs. loneliness, tradition vs. modernity -- but i think it's less about their opposition than their coexistence, and the blurriness of the boundaries between them. the doctor diagnosing the monk as the monk diagnoses the doctor, the chakra healing in a room full of artificial limbs and medical equipment, etc. and maybe the overriding or undergirding false opposition is the past vs. the present, then vs. now, which actually always inform and shape each other -- and which fits with the idea that the movie is about his own parents, whose lives in the past were necessary to produce his in the present, and that he carries their stories consciously or unconsciously inside himself.

but i've only seen it once, seeing it again would probably help rearrange some of that.

also, i think it's a really good movie. it brings together and focuses his themes and his whole personal vocabulary.

I was at Toronto's Cinematheque last night for Syndromes and...I feel bad; I slept through half of it. It wasn't the film. I should never try to see something on a worknight, especially anything subtitled. I sit down, settle back, remind myself to stay awake at all costs, then immediately start drifting. Anyway, I liked what I saw, and I'm hoping it turns up again on a weekend. Fantastic ending.

where is s1ocki's interview?

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/061208/film1.html

email interview so a bit blah but

ty!

"Phantoms of Nabua" is showing in the gallery at the bfi southbank for you london folk.