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1 day ago · Channeling Hong Sangsoo’s razor-sharp and at times offbeat gaze, as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s affinity for fantasia and nature, Singaporean director Nelson Yeo’s debut feature, winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s Filmmaker of the Present award, combines reality and magic to provide three troubled souls with a moment to dream.
2 days ago · Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Ghost Teen (detail, 2009), from the artist’s Primitive project, which focuses on the lives of young people in a village in a troubled area of northern Thailand ...
5 days ago · Yes, the Cannes Film Festival was the premiere home of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, but it was also the premiere home of Shrek, which competed for the ...
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3 days ago · Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a filmmaker who specializes in making some very distinctive arthouse films, with Syndromes and a Century perhaps being his most digestible to date. It’s still quite...
3 days ago · Installation view of "Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive" at M+, Hong Kong, 2024. Photo by Dan Leung. Courtesy M+, Hong Kong. Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s multichannel video installation Primitive (2009) will have its Hong Kong debut at M+ in The Studio space.
2 days ago · Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, often referred to as "Joe," is a Thai filmmaker known for his surreal and dreamlike storytelling. From "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" to "Tropical Malady," he blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, exploring themes of memory, identity, and spirituality.
3 days ago · At times Butter dresses itself up as a whodunnit thriller, and at others a friendship novel, delivered in even, earnestly narrated episodes that feel cookie-cutter ready for an eight-part television adaptation. But it’s the uneasy, persistent social misogyny, and how it polices social norms and expectations, that is the novel’s true focus.