FAVORITE THINGS IN SEPTEMBER 2008

FAVORITE THINGS IN SEPTEMBER 2008

A.FAVORITE FILMS

1.MODERN LIFE (2008, Raymond Depardon, France)

2.NOW SHOWING (2008, Raya Martin, Philippines)

3.YEARS WHEN I WAS A CHILD OUTSIDE (2008, John Torres, Philippines)

4.PAPER CANNOT WRAP UP EMBERS (2007, Rithy Panh, Cambodia)

5.BIRD SONG (2008, Albert Serra, Spain)


B.FAVORITE THAI FILM

THE PEN (2008, Weerasak Suyala)


C.FAVORITE ANIMATION

BUTTERFLY FROM URAL (2007, Katarina Lillqvist, Finland)


D.FAVORITE STAGE PLAY

THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN DAN (2008, Nopphand Boonyai)


E.FAVORITE EXHIBITION

THE CELLAR OF WONDERLAND (2008, Aninta Boonnotok) at Jamjuree Art Gallery


F.FAVORITE SONG

FAXING BERLIN – Deadmau 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEUfeiSKt0


G.FAVORITE QUOTES

Barbara Wurm wrote this in Senses of Cinema:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/08/48/rotterdam-iff-2008-wurm.html

“Besides Loznitsa’s little “Belorussian brother”, Viktor Asliuk, whose humble petit masterpiece Maria reflects the depressive (his- or rather her-)story of a former socialist “best worker”, or the Ukrainian artist’s Ihor Podolchak’s visually intense essay in artistically recreating a claustrophobic family atmosphere Las meninas, one could finally see three mature masterpieces of contemporary Russian cinema side by side, its experienced wing, so to speak, the outstanding triangle Balabanov-Sokurov-Muratova, not the much appraised – sometimes a bit prematurely, as it turns out – young wave (Popogrebsky, Khlebnikov, Zvyagintsev), favoured by those who had been waiting all too long for a simple, free, which ever – light or heavy, but definitely always average European type of arthouse cinema from the generation bearing no longer the stigma of the former USSR.”


I like the quote above because I much prefer CARGO 200 (2007, Alexei Balabanov, A+++++) to KOKTEBEL (2003, Boris Khlebnikov + Aleksei Popogrebsky, A) and to THE RETURN (2003, Andrei Zvyagintsev, A).