Mysterious object at noon 5060114151031 bluray region b. The complete criterion collection, a list of films by. They were trying to cover up the image of the ufo it might be able to film. Mysterious object at noon 2000 the criterion collection. Mysterious object at noon film by weerasethakul 2000. This list contains only the official dvd and bluray criterion releases. A washed up whale, a sea monster with dreadlocks and a beach christmas tree are just some of the guesses about a strange seaweedcovered object that washed up on a new zealand beach. Mysterious object at noon, the debut feature from apichatpong weerasethakul, is without a doubt one of the most exciting pieces of film ive encountered in a long while.
Its opening caption is once upon a time but the expectation of a fairy tale is immediately undercut with an extended take, shot from a moving vehicle, of modern bangkok. You can write, mysterious object at noon 2000 is a good movie, but it can be is a bad movie. Its an interesting film to see presented in restoration. Serdar is attracted to obscure films the way i am attracted to obscure music, and his taste is impeccable. Always remember dont trust the opinion of mysterious object at noon 2000 on the internet because the authors paid to write a comment.
Mysterious object at noon has a more problematic transfer, though it all comes down to the poor condition of the surviving materials, detailed in the included booklet. The photographs seem to show an anomalous object appearing and disappearing within a matter of seconds. An international team of astronomers led by philippe delorme of the grenoble alpes university in france has recently investigated a mysterious object designated cfbdsir j214947. Mysterious object may be first extinct meteorite space. Opting to release the set only in a dualformat edition there are no separate dvd or bluray only editions, mysterious object at noon shares the same duallayer bluray with insiang but receives its own duallayer dvd. Mysterious object at noon an extraordinary trip through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural thailand, designed as a surrealist game. People are scratching their heads to explain what it is. In this semidocumentary, various thais are invited to tell an episodic story. The most remarkable thing about mysterious object at noon is that you can deconstruct it pick it apart without destroying its magic. Mysterious object at noon at eye film in amsterdam eye.
Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul bande. The film crew set out on an expedition across thailand, from the north to the south, documenting several lives along the way. For his debut feature, the semidocumentary mysterious object at noon 2000, he and his crew travelled across thailand, enlisting a. Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul. For a long time we called the meteorite the mysterious object because we could not understand what it. Cnna part from a secret military project, a lost piece of oceanographic equipment, a piece of a ufo theres lots of speculation after a mysterious object was pulled from a rhode island beach. Mysterious object at noon is his hallucinatory debut feature, an extraordinary mix of experimental. Below you can find an overview of the hubert bals funds activities over the years, including the selections that were made by the fund, the hbffunded films that were screened at iffr, and the hbfs annual reports.
It is a film made with little domestic influence, austere in its appearance. Purists may hesitate to label it a documentary as the film melds documentary footage and interviews with fictional footage interspersed throughout. A film crew documents a folk storyexquisite corpse combination by random thai people. Mysterious object at noon bluray apichatpong weerasethakul. As it stands, the restoration from the austrian film museum and the film foundations world cinema project represents a herculean effort, sourced from a 35mm blowup. Shot in fits and starts on a minuscule budget, mysterious object at noon was modeled on the exquisite corpse addanelement structure famous from french surrealism, in which drawings or texts are passed from person to person to elaborate upon, with the original materials hidden so that each a. A lowfi genre bender, independently produced on a shoestring budget and subsequently endangered by neglect, mysterious object at noon, has now been painstakingly restored by the austrian film museum and the film foundation from the best surviving elements. Apichatpongs hallucinatory debut feature mysterious object at noon is an experimental documentary mix that wends its way through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural thailand. Mysterious object at noon is a 2000 thai independent experimental documentary film directed by apichatpong weerasethakul. A 96 cinema factory production in association with the thai film foundation and the hubert bals foundation. Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul iffr 2014 85. March 24, 2020 view more lists follow me the criterion collection is a video distribution company that sells important classic and contemporary films in editions that offer the highest technical quality and awardwinning, original supplements. Video sparks frenzy among ufo hunters footage has emerged of a mysterious object travelling across the surface of the moon, sparking a flurry.
As the nascent thai cinema struggles to establish an identity on the world stage, weerasethakul has emerged as its most promising young star, a playful and wildly idiosyncratic director who seems to be discovering his style as he goes. Mysterious isolated object investigated by astronomers. We soon see aliens, flying balls and kidnaps in what started out as a personal drama. As beginnings go, the silent cinemastyle intertitle that opens apichatpong weerasethakuls debut feature, mysterious object at noon, is especially apposite. Djuangjai hirunsri, kongkiat khomsiri, saisiri xoomsai, prasong klimborron, sayombhu mukdeeprom, apichatpong weerasethakul, tony morias. Structured roughly as a chain story, the film is a loose assembly of. Mysterious object at noon gives us a unique look at thailand, but especially its people. Mysterious object at noon was restored in 20 by the austrian film museum and the cineteca di bolognalimmagine ritrovata laboratory, in association with the film foundations world cinema project, listo laboratory in vienna, technicolor ltd. It had its north american premiere at the vancouver international film festival, where it won a special citation dragons and tigers award. The films of apichatpong weerasethakul february 29march 10 at ifc center mekong hotel directed by apichatpong weerasethakul opens march 4 at ifc center cemetery of splendor directed by apichatpong weerasethakul opens march 4 at ifc center and the film society of lincoln center made in 2012 but previously unreleased stateside, mekong. Mysterious object appears on trail camera unexplained. Mysterious object at noon directed by apichatpong weerasethakul trailer edited by michael scheer mysterious object at noon trailer, 426 on vimeo join. A mix of documentary, pseudodocumentary, and drama, this thai movie follows. Whats this mystery object floating across the moon.
Mysterious metallic object uncovered on rhode island beach. This box, which sits on my desk in london, contains the fragments that will go to make up the central part of shubigi raos collaboration with katriona beales. Mysterious object at noon is part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudodocumentary about several unrelated lives in thailand. Its structure was based on exquisite corpse, a parlour game adapted by the surrealists in the early 20th century in which each player contributed to the making of a sentence without knowing what preceding players had written. Mukdeeprom has won international acclaim for his photography on films such as the 2010 cannes film festival winner uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives and the 2017 academy award nominee.
Mystery movies 2016 every mystery movie coming out in 2016. The second film in the set is apichatpong weerasethakuls mysterious object at noon. This feeling of travel through town, through country, through fiction, through reality sets you up perfectly for the film, a road movie unlike any other. The final minifeature details the restoration from a single festival print, carried out at the austrian film museum, of the version presented here. It is organized by spine number and is best viewed in list view. In terms of both action and theme, the ellipsis is everything. Mysterious object at noon is fascinating not for its conclusiveness which it inevitably lacks but its construction. Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul bandeannonce films capricci. Mysterious object at noon is an especially vivid example of the hybrid tendency that has galvanized so much of contemporary world cinema. Search results iffr international film festival rotterdam.
The mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul, 2000 i have a friend named serdar. Mysterious object at noon 2000 apichatpong weerasethakul in mysterious object at. Other articles where mysterious object at noon is discussed. Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul bandeannonce. As with the work of many of todays most adventurous filmmakerspedro costa, carlos reygadas, and miguel gomes, to name a fewapichatpongs films rewire the relationship between fiction and documentary. Streaming full mysterious object at noon 2000 first, once you can rate this movie. So many thematic and tonal elements of weerasethakuls later, more celebrated films, are evident in mysterious object at noon that it would be easy to consider as a formative exercise alone, but even as he began to explore these fertile soils, he was creating a work of captivating and arresting beauty. Joe has since 2000 almost systematically integrated elements of reality in his work, the hospital for instance is autobiographical and comes in syndrome and a century, in cemetary of splendour etc. A film crew travels from the thai countryside to bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to expand upon a story involving a wheelchairbound young boy.
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