Monday, November 16, 2009

POLL 68: WORLD FILM FESTIVAL OF BANGKOK 2009

My poll 68 is inspired by the World Film Festival of Bangkok 2009, which is one of the best things ever happened in my whole life. I worship this film festival.

THESE GREAT FILMS WERE SHOWN IN THE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL OF BANGKOK 2009. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?

1.I FORGOT THE TITLE (2009, Christelle Lheureux, Italy)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/68/I-Forgot-the-Title.html

2.JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 (1976, Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/25/Jonah-Who-Will-Be-25-in-the-Year-2000.html
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC15folder/JonahStam.html
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC15folder/JonahAgainst.html
http://twilightvirus.blogspot.com/2009/11/alain-tanner-retrospective-7.html
http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51R256HQBAL._SS500_.jpg

3.LETTER TO A CHILD (2008, Vlado Skafar, Slovenia)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/62/Letter-To-A-Child.html

4.GREEN ROCKING CHAIR (2008, Roxlee, Philippines)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/5/Green-Rocking-Chair.html

5.A LAKE (2008, Philippe Grandrieux, France)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/31/Lake,-A.html
http://www.rouge.com.au/13/diary.html
http://enyxynematryx.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/un-lac-th/

6.THE WET SEASON (2008, Brigid McCaffrey & Ben Russell, Suriname)
http://cinema-scope.com/wordpress/?page_id=1004

7. BLOCK B (2008, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia)

8.THEY ALL LIE (2009, Matias Pineiro, Argentina)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/44/They-All-Lie.html

9.FLOODING IN THE TIME OF DROUGHT (2009, Sherman Ong, Singapore)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/10/Flooding-in-The-Time-of-Drought.html

10.GULABI TALKIES (2008, Girish Kasaravalli, India)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/12/Gulabi-Talkies.html

11.A VIRUS IN THE CITY (2008, Cedric Venail, France)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/61/Virus-in-the-City,-A.html

12.SHANGHAI, WAITING FOR PARADISE (2007, Sylvie Levey, China, documentary)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/108/Shanghai,-Waiting-for-Paradise.html

13.THE RAT HERB (2009, Julio Bressane, Brazil)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/41/Rat-Herb,-The.html

14.BAD BOYS CELL 425 (2009, Janusz Mrozowski, Poland)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/51/Bad-Boys-Cell-425.html

15.TO DIE LIKE A MAN (2009, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/21/To-Die-Like-a-Man.html
http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2009/11/lines-of-inspiration-popular-cinema-to.html
http://twitchfilm.net/interviews/2009/09/tiff09-to-die-like-a-man--interview-with-joao-pedro-rodrigues-alexander-david.php
http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs39/spot_lim_rodrigues.html

16.A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE (2009, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/48/Letter-to-Uncle-Boonmee,-A.html
http://academichack.net/TIFF2009.htm

17.UPRISE (2008, Sandro Aguilar, Portugal)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/30/Uprise.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCZboYx7R9o

18.THE LAST BUS (2008, Maria Hengge, Germany/Austria)

19.RECONSIDERING "THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE, CALIFORNIA" BY LEWIS BALTZ, 1974 (2009, Mario Pfeiffer, USA)

20.COLORS OF OUR HEARTS (2009, Supamok Silarak, Thailand)
http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/films/3/Colors-of-our-Hearts.html
http://thaifilmjournal.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-colors-of-our-hearts.html

You can cast multiple votes.

The films in the list above are ranked according to my preferential order, which makes it different from other lists which were ranked according to alphabetical order.




2 comments:

merveillesxx said...

vote for LETTER TO A CHILD ja

celinejulie said...

Thank you very much for your vote. One thing I like very much in LETTER TO A CHILD is a monologue about the ultimate happiness one experiences when one sees a leaf falling from a tree or something like that. :-)