DIMA EL HORR INTERVIEWED BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

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ไม่แน่ใจว่าพระเอกหนังเรื่อง “ตั๋วรักพลิกล็อค” ชื่อ “ภัสพงษ์ อร่ามเสรีวงศ์” หรือเปล่า พอดีดูในสูจิบัตรของงานหนังกางจอ 14 เขาบอกว่าดารานำของ “ตั๋วรักพลิกล็อค” คือคนนี้กับ “ศรีรุ่ง หวังเอกเทียนชัย” (เดาว่าเป็นชื่อของนางเอก)


INTERESTING THINGS

1.INTERESTING PROGRAM
“40 YEARS OF VIDEO ART IN GERMANY”

TUESDAY 26 JUNE 19.00 AT GOETHE INSTITUTE IN BANGKOK
For more information, please read
http://www.goethe.de/ins/th/ban/en2397032.htm


2. INTERESTING BOOK
“DEMOCRACY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THAILAND”
by Michael Kelly Connors

For more information in Thai about this book, please read
http://konmongnang.exteen.com/20070621/entry

The cover of this book
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1361/577928526_b54b3c1436_o.jpg


3.INTERESTING NEWS
Dima El Horr, a Lebanese female filmmaker, receives grant from the Global Fund Initiative (GFI), to make the film EVERYDAY IS A HOLIDAY.

I read this news from Michael Guillen’s blog here:
http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2007/06/global-film-initiativeawards-granted-to.html

I have never seen any films by Dima El Horr, but I have been wanting to see her films since 1998 when I read a Thai book called “FILMVIRUS”. In this book, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is a friend of Dima El Horr, interviewed her after he and Sonthaya Subyen, the editor of FILMVIRUS, saw THE STREET (1997, Dima El Horr) and like it.

The long interview is published in Thai in FILMVIRUS. There are many interesting things in the interview, such as

3.1 Dima El Horr said that she is cinematically influenced by Alain Resnais and HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, though her film doesn’t look like Resnais’ films.

3.2 Many people thought that THE STREET might be influenced by BICYCLE THIEVES (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

3.3 Apichatpong thought that THE STREET might be influenced by Abbas Kiarostami, but Dima El Horr denied it.

3.4 Dima El Horr said that though she studied film in USA, her film would still be different from other American film students, because NOBODY CAN TEACH OTHER PEOPLE HOW TO VIEW THE WORLD. (I translate this from Thai. I don’t know which exact English words she said in the interview.)


4.INTERESTING DVD

WHERE HAS YOUR HIDDEN SMILE GONE? (2001, Pedro Costa)

This film is about the editing process of the film SICILIA! by Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet.

You can buy this DVD from the link below:
http://www.cdgo.com/artigoDetalhe.php?idArtigo=2764855&lang=EN

This DVD has English, Portuguese and Italian subtitles. It is sold together with a Portuguese book.

“DVD (inclui «Onde Jaz o Teu Sorriso?» + «Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, cineastas / cinema, de notre temps» + curtas-metragens ineditas de Pedro Costa, Daniele Huillet e Jean-Mari Straub + filmografias, legendas e menus em portugues, ingles e italiano) + livro (inclui dialogos integrais do filme, fotogramas e textos de Jacques Ranciere, Emmanuel Burdeau, Thierry Lounas, Joao Benard da Costa)”


Acquarello wrote about WHERE HAS YOUR HIDDEN SMILE GONE? here: http://filmref.com/notes/archives/2006/09/where_has_your_hidden_smile_go.html

I know about this DVD from Mubarak Ali’s blog:
http://supposedaura.blogspot.com/2007/05/on-pyaasa.html#comments



5.FAVORITE SONG

BELIEVE – NATHAN HAINES FEATURING SHELLY NELSON
http://www.myspace.com/nathanhaines

You can listen to a sample of BELIEVE, a beautiful chill-out song, from the link below:
http://www.tunetribe.com/Artist?artist_id=8066