Friday, March 4 2011
Digital Ghost: Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul Recalls Uncle Boonmee
Celebrated film director and visual artist "Thai Joe" talks to PopMatters about the cost of transmigration, hybridity and fantasy, as his Palm D'Or-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives finally bows stateside after traveling the long and winding roads of the international film festival circuit.
Friday, January 4 2008
Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
On censorship he says: "It tended to be assumed in European films that human beings were born with sexual organs and at a certain point in their lives began to use them, not always in socially approved ways."
Wednesday, November 23 2005
The Passenger (1975/2005)
He is introduced as a human being in the process of existing rather than any particular person engaged in any particular struggle.
Saturday, May 28 2005
Eros (2004)
Wong Kar-Wai's section follows Miss Hua (Gong Li in some of the most gorgeous dresses ever photographed), a sultry but also wistful Hong Kong call girl.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Mystery of Oberwald (Mistero di Oberwald, Il) (1980/2001)
Set in 1903, 'Oberwald' is an adaptation of a Jean Cocteau play called 'The Two-Headed Eagle'. The play and subsequent video are both premised on the kind of everyplot that evokes many common narratives at once.
