Mubi is showing Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Last Life in the Universe (2003) in the United States from August 13 - September 11, 2016.“Let’s not know too much about what we’re going to do, let’s just look for the film.” —Pen-ek RatanaruangThere are films that you sleep through and films that guide you through sleep. Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s 2003 film Last Life in the Universe falls under the latter category, invoking that lull between wake and slumber. That slow-motion moment when your eyes are still open as you’re dreaming, where the most nonsensical fantasies make perfect sense. It is also a film labeled as quintessentially “art-house” and “Thai New Wave,” known as the hit that propelled director Pen-ek Ratanaruang into the international spotlight once dominated by his friend and colleague, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Yet with each viewing Last Life in the Universe ceases to be anything at all. Maybe that is the point,...
- 8/26/2016
- MUBI
Phobia
Stars: Laila Boonyasak, Pongsatorn Jongwilak, Maneerat Kham-uan | Directed by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Paween Purikitpanya, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Phobia is a compendium of four short horror films – in the style of the classic Us horror movies such as Tales From The Crypt, Twilight Zone: The Movie and Creepshow – from a selection of Thai directors.
The first, ‘Happiness’, directed by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, focuses exclusively on a lone occupant of a single room, a young woman incarcerated in her apartment due to a broken leg suffered in a car accident. She is bored and lonely until she starts receiving text messages from an unknown stranger. Thongkongtoon’s ponderous and quasi-poetic direction adeptly transforms familiar surroundings into first unsettling and then frightening environments. This dialogue-free short is the most subtle of the quartet and a strong opening salvo.
Paween Purikitpanya’s ‘Tit for Tat’ follows, in which a group of bullies are expelled...
Stars: Laila Boonyasak, Pongsatorn Jongwilak, Maneerat Kham-uan | Directed by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Paween Purikitpanya, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Phobia is a compendium of four short horror films – in the style of the classic Us horror movies such as Tales From The Crypt, Twilight Zone: The Movie and Creepshow – from a selection of Thai directors.
The first, ‘Happiness’, directed by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, focuses exclusively on a lone occupant of a single room, a young woman incarcerated in her apartment due to a broken leg suffered in a car accident. She is bored and lonely until she starts receiving text messages from an unknown stranger. Thongkongtoon’s ponderous and quasi-poetic direction adeptly transforms familiar surroundings into first unsettling and then frightening environments. This dialogue-free short is the most subtle of the quartet and a strong opening salvo.
Paween Purikitpanya’s ‘Tit for Tat’ follows, in which a group of bullies are expelled...
- 5/14/2010
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
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