By: gcgiles

gcgiles — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:03:00 +0000

I didn’t know where else to put this, aside from an old NYFF announcement. I just saw Uncle Boonmee at the only theater on the West Coast that seems to want to book this film outside of an overpriced film festival–and at that, only one night, one screening. I read somewhere that this film was shot on 16 mm to capture the feel of Thai television productions Weerasethakul saw as a kid. So it’s softer, grainier, lot’s of dirt around the reel changes (stupid film strip!). Is this true, or just one of those insidious Wikipedia lies? The million-baht question with this film: Is he trying to naturalize folklore and spiritual beliefs–make them mundane, integrated into daily life, demystified–OR is he trying to make them more artificial, like those glowing red LCD monkey ghost eyes, an effect he saw a lot on those television shows? I can trust you guys to give me the goods…
Apropos of nothing, do you delete old comments? Because some of mine are gone, and I wanted to re-experience the glory.
Cheers,
Greg

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