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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Review
To champion a film as a work of art is an increasingly rare pleasure, but no other reaction seems appropriate in response to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s masterpiece UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES. Appropriately, the film won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, yet this official Thai entry for the [...]
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives: March 4
Strand Releasing gives a limited theatrical spin to this import, including engagements in New York City and at the Laemmle Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles. Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, this winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2010 sounds more like art house fare than a full-blown genre exercise, but there is a genre [...]
Foreign horror heads to Hollywood from Cannes
Variety reports that IFC Films has picked up U.S. distribution rights for ANTICHRIST, Lars Von Triers’ symbolic shocker, which recently screened at Cannes. From advance descriptions, the film sounds as if it will easily fall into NC-17 territory, so we can only hope that IFC puts it out uncut (and probably unrated, as they most [...]
