Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Pick the best Asian films of all time

CNN (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008

Asia: Spread over one third of the world's surface, it is home to something like four billion people in 70 countries. It also produces half of the world's film.

Tropical Malady

DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008

DVD Video Review: Out today, Anthony Nield reviews Second Run's Region 0 release of Tropical Malady, another fine DVD showing for Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Tropical Malady

Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

Apichatpong Weerasethakul directs this startlingly original Thai love story-cum-horror movie. Rating:3.5

Nonzee Nimibutr wins Silpathorn Award

Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

The godfather of the Thai New Wave, Nonzee Nimibutr, joins fellow Thai filmmakers Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wisit Sasanatieng and Thunska Pansittivorakul as a Silpathorn Award honoree. Nonzee, born in 1962 in Nonthaburi Province, attended Silpakorn University. His early films were Daeng Bireley's and the Young Gangsters in 1997 and Nang Nak in 1999 (both penned by Wisit). Along...

Insee Thong

Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008

Mitchai Banchaa - 1970 Triple X Region 0 DVD I can't possibly improve on the notes that come with this DVD: Rome Rittkikrai (Mitr Chaibancha) the real Red Eagle had to disguise himself as The Golden Eagle, just to...

Tropical Malady in August

DVD Times (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008

News: Second Run DVD have announced the UK DVD release of Tropical Malady (Sud pralad) on 11th August 2008 priced at £12.99. Thailand's Apichatpong Weerasethakul's award winning, visionary film exists in dual realms, exploring connected themes of love and ...

• On DVD in the U.K.: Tropical Malady - Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal

Wonderful Town.

GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008

"An affectionate love story that apes the studied art-drone minimalism of Tsai Ming-Liang and the haunted lushness of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the ironically titled Wonderful Town rewards more in its social-realist backdrop than its minor foreground drama," writes Aaron Hillis...

"HAUNTED HOUSES" IS THE WINNER

Limitless Cinema (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008

My poll 26 ended with nine votes. Thank you very much for everyone who participated in it. Here is the result: THESE GREAT FILMS/PLAY MAY BE SELF-REFLEXIVE OR STORYTELLING-CONCERNED. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE? 1.HAUNTED HOUSES (2001, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand) It got 3 votes, or 33 %. 2.BACHELORETTE (Michel Gondry, a music video of Bjork) +CLOSE-UP (1989, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran) +CONTEMPT (1963,...

Apichatpong talks about his 'Vampire'

Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008

Apichatpong Weerasethakul showed his short film Vampire last week at the Alliance Francaise in Bangkok as part of the proceedings for his being awarded the Chevalier l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government. The film was made for Louis Vuitton and is part of LV's Travelling show until August 31 at the Louis Vuitton Space. Other shorts are by Belgian director Jean-Philippe Toussaint,...

BFI's Syndromes DVD 'pleasingly rich'

Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008

DVD Times has reviewed the British Film Institute's release of Apichatpong Weerasethakul 's Syndromes and a Century . They report that the English subtitles are removable, which makes the BFI release preferable to the bare-bones Strand Releasing offering from earlier this year, which has intrusive burned-in subs that must be for the vision impaired . The "pleasingly rich" extras on the BFI disc include...

Syndromes and a Century

DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008

DVD Video Review: Released by the BFI last week, Anthony Nield looks at their Region 2 handling of the latest from Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

French 'knighthood' for Apichatpong

Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008

Thai indie filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul will tomorrow receive the prestigious Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from French Ambassador to Thailand Laurent Bili on behalf of the French government. The filmmaker will accept the beribboned medal at an invitation-only ceremony at the Alliance Francaise in Bangkok. The "Chevalier" (knight) medal is the third-tier honor in the Arts et Lettres, following...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's shorts in San Francisco

Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has a program of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's short films, the second part of which screens today. The YBCA had planned to show the shorts a week ago, but some were delayed in shipping, so they screened Syndromes and a Century for free . An enthusiast for Joei's films, Hell on Frisco Bay 's Brian, was deeply disappointed that he would not be able to view...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul connections

Hell on Frisco Bay (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

When I watch a film, I usually struggle to resist evaluating it as a discrete object that succeeds or fails on its own merits. I prefer to think of each film or other artwork as a segment of a continuum of creation -- usually the context of an artist's body of work, though there are other continuums I'm interested in as well. When I watch a film by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, it's no...

Stretch of the Imagination

Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

I’ve learned my lesson about getting too excited by films after watching Mister Lonely in Cannes last year. My high hopes had never been dashed so severely. However, I’m finding it hard not to be excited about a script I’ve just read entitled Stretch. It is to be directed by Charles de Meaux who has [...]