#153 - Don't Be Afraid To Dream With Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's Justin the Kluer, and I'm here today with a pitch at pong, we're a setakool. There, we did it. We tried to say his name, so we can call him Joe from now on, right? Well, that's what, you know, people who pretend they're his friends call him. But I'm going to call him a pitch at pong. A pitch at pong. |
| 0:21.7 | Okay. Oh, you can call him, Joe. What are they? Yeah. You know what? That pronunciation will change, as I say, his name throughout, like an evolution. But there we go. We got it. And who is this person, Will? He is probably the most celebrated Thai filmmaker in history, certainly. 100% |
| 0:36.0 | one of the |
| 0:36.7 | What about the guy |
| 0:37.3 | who directed |
| 0:37.6 | Unkbach? |
| 0:38.4 | Well, he's number two |
| 0:39.5 | of course. |
| 0:40.2 | It's incredible |
| 0:40.7 | how they both |
| 0:41.2 | emerged at the same time. Yeah, they did. Helping each other. He's the celebrated director of Uncle Boomy, who can recall his past lives, tropical malady, cemetery of splendor, syndromes in a Century and Other Acclaimed Films. |
| 0:54.8 | Wait a minute. These sound like art films. |
| 0:57.7 | Well, you know, it's interesting. You should say that. |
| 1:00.1 | Look, as I said before, he's the most celebrated Thai filmmaker in history, so he's not |
| 1:04.5 | somebody who is in desperate need of defenders. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.3 | That said, he is somebody who I think there has been a fairly small but also fairly |
| 1:12.7 | consistent backlash to ever since 2010, which you'll recall was the year that he won |
| 1:17.6 | the Palm Door for Uncle Boomy, who can recall his past lives. |
| 1:21.2 | What do you think this backlash comes from? |
| 1:22.8 | Because his films are snorifying? |
| 1:24.6 | Well, to some, he represents the epitome of a certain kind of slow, |
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