Seeing that A D recently mentioned seeing Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (see my first post on Big Other, also partially about Uncle Boonmee and Weerasethakul’s short film Phantoms of Nabua), thought it might be fitting to post the “Delirium” master class with Weerasethakul, which took place on November 12, [...]
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In Buenos Aires with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apichatpong weerasethakul, film, phantoms of nabua, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
His Light Materials: Puig, Film, and “Gruesome Tangos”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bad Taste, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, film, John Waters, Jorgelina Corbatta, Joseph von Sternberg, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig, Marlene Dietrich, Tango on March 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I hope some of you are reading and digging Manuel Puig’s Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. In my first post, I talked about the disorienting opening of the novel, which thrusts us right into the middle of pages of dialogue without any sense of how many characters are talking or who they are. The book then [...]
Invisible cinema: 7 p., cuis., s. de b.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, essay, film, house, invisible cinema, Luca Dipierro, naked body on November 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
7 p., cuis., s. de b. … a saisir Agnès Varda directed this short in 1984. Sept pieces, cuisine, salle de bains …a saisir (Seven Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom …a Bargain) is a film about a house. It’s an essay, in the erratic sense of the word, about time and space. The camera moves in the rooms [...]