Joe discusses how found his comfort zone outside of his native Thailand, and why he thinks of Memoria as a musical.
These shorts capture everything from how fear of the unknown can rewire relationships to how the natural world exerts its pull on us all.
The film is serious in its reflection on whether there’s a spirit world that persists beneath the façades of urban modernity.
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s film is an oblique portrait of Thailand’s Rohingya refugee crisis.
The film is a haunting portrait of the island as a purgatorial realm between the poles of isolation and liberation.
The set is best viewed as another fine product from the hopefully ongoing collaboration between Criterion and the World Cinema Project.
We spoke to Joe about the value of personal memory, sci-fi, and the process of making his first feature shot entirely on digital.
It gently and often imperceptibly shifts between past and present, legend and modernity, wakefulness and reverie.
Weerasethakul’s films have always been marked by their tenderness, unobtrusive rigor, and desire to splice the straightforward with the oblique.
True/False Film Fest 2014: The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Manakamana, & Concerning Violence
To call Jessica Oreck’s The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga “hypnotic” would be too easy.
Creating this fantasy Sight & Sound ballot felt as much like excavation as photography.
I can think of worse tasks than judging films in the elegant Basque city of San Sebastián, known as Donostia to the locals.
It turns out the ghosts in the shadows and the monsters with red eyes aren’t horrific enemies, but different versions of our best and worst selves.
Even though the movies are alive and well, film itself is turning ghostly.
Throughout Uncle Boonmee, a film cooly transfixed by the open-door relationship between the living and the dead, Apichatpong Weerasethakul sees weirdness and wonder in the mundane.
The festival ended with its longest competition title, and it wasn’t even a complete film.
Cannes Film Festival 2010: Fair Game, Route Irish, & Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Joe Wilson: Great American, or greatest American?
The Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, and, arguably, Julian Schnabel are all pretty close to locks.
My resistance may also be attributed to the fact that I don’t think it was a very well programmed double bill.
This 5 for the Day focuses on moments of sexual/romantic connection between two characters.