Tag: Director: Apitchatpong

  • TIFF 2012 – Day 2

    TIFF 2012 – Day 2

    Barbara (Petzold), Mekong Hotel (Apitchatpong), Big in Vietnam (Diop), Sightseers (Wheatley), Student (Omirbayev), and Wavelengths 1.

  • Phantoms of Nabua and a Letter to Uncle Boonmee

    Phantoms of Nabua and a Letter to Uncle Boonmee

    There are ways of “decoding” this film, I suppose — the soccer ball as a synecdoche for military armaments, the cinema as documentarian, the hovering florescent light as ghost (or Ghost) — but reducing Apitchatpong’s films to points on a symbolic answer key seems beside the point.