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Apichatpong Weerasethakul

December 2022

  • Tilda Swinton and Juan Pablo Urrego in Memoria.

    Best films 2022
    Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 8 – Memoria

  • Tilda Swinton and Juan Pablo Urrego in Memoria.

    Best films 2022
    Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 9 – Memoria

September 2022

  • Claire Denis in London in 2018.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Claire Denis’s cultural highlights

    The French director on being mesmerised by the film Memoria, and her love of Tindersticks, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the Mediterranean

June 2022

  • From left: Tilda Swinton in Memoria, Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook in Ali & Ava, Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl.

    Best culture of 2022 so far
    The best films of 2022 so far

    Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s films

January 2022

  • Tilda Swinton as Jessica.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Memoria review – Tilda Swinton works her magic in enigmatic fantasy

    Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has crafted a trance-like tale of a woman haunted by strange sounds in Colombia
  • Tilda Swinton on the beach near Nairn

    Tilda Swinton: ‘My ambition was always about having a house by the sea and some dogs’

    The actor opens up about her queer years with Derek Jarman and her latest clutch of films, and reveals her plans for a career change. And all while taking her five spaniels for a walk
  • Hypnotic cinema.

    Audiences to be put in hypnotic trance at Swedish film festival

    Three screenings at this year’s Göteborg festival will ‘transform the audience’s state of mind’ with a live hypnotist on stage

June 2021

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Cannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup

    Peter Bradshaw
    After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugar

February 2020

  • Something is awry … Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in The Truth, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.

    Lost in translation: when film-makers hit the language barrier

    Making films in another language is always a risk – for every Yorgos Lanthimos-style success, there’s a Wong Kar-wai disaster lurking around the corner

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

    Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

October 2018

  • Anna Boghiguian, A meteor fell from the sky (2018).

    Artes Mundi 8 review – engrossing works blunted by limp liberal agenda

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

    The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition

April 2018

  • Cannes director Thierry Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure announce the selection

    Cannes film festival 2018: full list of films

    The official selection has been announced for the 71st Cannes film festival running 8-19 May. Here are all the titles screening

February 2018

  • Blurring the distinction between sleep and wakefulness … the Sleepcinemahotel in Rotterdam.

    Ghosts in the machine: a night at the 'hotel' where films become dreams

    At a pop-up guesthouse, Sleepcinemahotel, Palme d’Or winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has installed beds – and a hypnotic 120-hour ‘film’ to nod off to

June 2017

  • Whitney: Can I Be Me

    Five of the best… new films
    Whitney: Can I Be Me and Slack Bay: this week’s best films in the UK

    Nick Broomfield treads a careful line between tribute and exposé in his Whitney Houston docudrama, while Juliette Binoche stars in an eccentric French farce

November 2016

  • THINGS TO COME

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Things to Come; Cemetery of Splendour; X-Men: Apocalypse and more – review

    Isabelle Huppert is outstanding in Mia Hansen-Løve’s impeccable study of midlife crisis, while Greek newcomer Sofia Exarchou makes her mark with Park

April 2016

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Tate Modern, London.

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul: 'My country is run by superstition'

  • Cemetery of Splendour a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Photograph by Chai Siris Courtesy of Kick the Machine Films press image supplied by porterfrith porterfrith <porterfrith@hotmail.com><br></porterfrith@hotmail.com>

    Film blog
    Everything is possible – five things we learned at the Apichatpong Weerasethakul all-nighter

November 2015

  • Alexandra Sun, producer of River, winner of Best Young Feature Film at the 2015 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) at the Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 26 November, 2015.

    Asia Pacific floods Brisbane with art, cinema and a 'common humanity'

    A festival featuring 102 movies from 42 countries across the region brought the Asia Pacific closer to home – if only Australian audiences had been bigger

October 2015

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul: I won't censor my work for Thailand

    The Palme d’Or-winner says he will not show the acclaimed Cemetery of Splendour in his homeland because he fears it would fall foul of the ruling military junta
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