UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES
(LUNG BOONMEE RALUEK CHAT)
a film by APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Year: 2010
114 minutes, 35mm, 1:1.85, Colour, Dolby SRD
Country: Thailand/ UK/ Germany/ France/ Spain
In Thai with English Subtitles
NOW AVAILABLE ON BLU RAY!
(LUNG BOONMEE RALUEK CHAT)
a film by APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Year: 2010
114 minutes, 35mm, 1:1.85, Colour, Dolby SRD
Country: Thailand/ UK/ Germany/ France/ Spain
In Thai with English Subtitles
NOW AVAILABLE ON BLU RAY!
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
Examined Life takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us.
Featuring the “rock star” philosophers of our time, including Cornel West, Peter Singer, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Michael Hardt, Anthony Appiah and Martha Nussbaum.
Long Synopsis
UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
Cinematheque Winnipeg - March 4 & 5 @ 7pm, 2009
Cinema Village, NYC - Opens March 6 (1:15 PM 3:15 PM 5:20 PM 7:20 PM 9:20 PM)
Pacific Cinematheque - March 20 - 25, 2009
Cinema du Parc, Montreal, March 23 - 26 @ 9pm
Bytowne Cinema - March 22 - 25, 2009
Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon - March 9 - 12, 2009
Art Gallery of Hamilton - March 25, 2009
Cinecenta, Victoria - April 1 & 2, 2009
Cinema du Parc, Montreal - April 3 - 9
Regina Public Library, Regina, SK - April 4 & 5, 2009
Metro Cinema, Edmonton, April 18 - 20, 2009
View screenings in the United States, courtesy Zeitgeist Films!
View complete Showtimes for all films!
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS:
The Royal, Toronto - Opening Jan 23, 2009 - EXTENDED TO FEB 5th!
Friday @ 7, Saturday @ 7, Sunday @ 4:30 & 7, Monday @ 7, Tuesday @ 7 & 9:30, Wednesday @ 7, Thursday @ 7 & 9
(Panel follows Jan. 27, 7pm screening, on the intersection of public space & intellectual pursuits, featuring Astra Taylor, Jane Farrow, Deborah Cowen, Kanishka Goonewardena and Doug Hutchinson. Filmmaker Q&A on Sat, Sun & Mon.
Kingsway Theatre, Toronto: Jan 30 - Feb 5, 2009 - Nightly at 9pm - 2nd Theatre Added!
Regent Theatre, Toronto: Feb. 6 - 12, 2009
Western Arctic Moving Pictures Film Festival, Feb. 8, 2009 - 7pm
City Cinema, Charlottetown - Feb 11 - 15, 2009
Port Moody, B.C. Film Festival - Feb. 12 - 21, 2009
View complete Showtimes for all films!
Examined Life takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world around us.
Long Synopsis
UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
Cinematheque Winnipeg - March 4 & 5 @ 7pm, 2009
Cinema Village, NYC - Opens March 6 (1:15 PM 3:15 PM 5:20 PM 7:20 PM 9:20 PM)
Pacific Cinematheque - March 20 - 25, 2009
Cinema du Parc, Montreal, March 23 - 26 @ 9pm
Bytowne Cinema - March 22 - 25, 2009
Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon - March 9 - 12, 2009
Art Gallery of Hamilton - March 25, 2009
Cinecenta, Victoria - April 1 & 2, 2009
Cinema du Parc, Montreal - April 3 - 9
Regina Public Library, Regina, SK - April 4 & 5, 2009
Metro Cinema, Edmonton, April 18 - 20, 2009
View screenings in the United States, courtesy Zeitgeist Films!
View complete Showtimes for all films!
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS:
The Royal, Toronto - Opening Jan 23, 2009 - EXTENDED TO FEB 5th!
Friday @ 7, Saturday @ 7, Sunday @ 4:30 & 7, Monday @ 7, Tuesday @ 7 & 9:30, Wednesday @ 7, Thursday @ 7 & 9
(Panel follows Jan. 27, 7pm screening, on the intersection of public space & intellectual pursuits, featuring Astra Taylor, Jane Farrow, Deborah Cowen, Kanishka Goonewardena and Doug Hutchinson. Filmmaker Q&A on Sat, Sun & Mon.
Kingsway Theatre, Toronto: Jan 30 - Feb 5, 2009 - Nightly at 9pm - 2nd Theatre Added!
Regent Theatre, Toronto: Feb. 6 - 12, 2009
Western Arctic Moving Pictures Film Festival, Feb. 8, 2009 - 7pm
City Cinema, Charlottetown - Feb 11 - 15, 2009
Port Moody, B.C. Film Festival - Feb. 12 - 21, 2009
View complete Showtimes for all films!
SYNOPSIS:
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave -- the birthplace of his first life... From the director of SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY, TROPICAL MALADY and BLISSFULLY YOURS.
About the Director:
In his short career, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has come to be recognized as one of the most original voices in Asian and world cinema. His four feature films and his short films have won him widespread international recognition and numerous festival prizes. »Blisfuly Yours« (2002) won the prize of »Un Certain Regard«, and »Tropical Malady« (2004) the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival Competition. His feature Syndromes and a Century (2006) was the first Thai film to be selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival. With »Tropical Malady«, »Syndromes and a Century« has been recognized as one of the best films of the last decade in several 2010 polls.
Apichatpong was born in Bangkok and grew up in Khon Kaen in north-eastern Thailand. He holds a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He began making film and video shorts in 1994, and completed his first feature in 2000. Lyrical and often fascinatingly mysterious, his works deal with memory, subtly addressing personal politics and social issues. Working outside of the strict Thai film studio system, he is active in promoting independent filmmaking through his company »Kick the Machine«, founded in 1999. He has also mounted exhibitions and installations in many countries since 1998. In 2007 The Thai Ministry of Culture awarded Apichatpong with one of Thailand’s most important awards for visual artists, the Silpatorn Award. In 2008, he became the first artist to receive the Fine Prize from the 55th Carnegie International, USA, and last year he was short listed for one of the art world’s most prestigious awards, the Hugo Boss Award with the winner to be announced in 2010.
»Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives« compliments Apichatpong’s ‘Primitive project’, which deals with ideas of extinction and the recollection of past lives. Other elements of the project are the ambitious multiscreen installation, ‘Primitive’, which was presented in 2009 in Munich, Liverpool, and at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and two short films, ‘A Letter to Uncle Boonmee’ and ‘Phantoms of Nabua’.
UPCOMING SCREENINGS!
Plaza Theatre, Calgary: March 25 - 31, 2011
Winnipeg Cinematheque: April 8,9,10, 13 & 14, 2011
Pacific Cinematheque: April 23 & 27, 2011
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS
Toronto International Film Festival (North American Premiere)
Sept 16th @ ISABEL BADER THEATRE - 10:30pm (1st Public Screening)
Sept 18th at AMC 5, 9:15am (2nd Public Screening)
Calgary International Film Festival: Buy Tix Online!
Friday, Oct. 1, 07:15pm - Eau Claire Market - Cineplex Odeon - #1
Vancouver International Film Festival: Buy Tix Online!
Wed, Oct 6th 9:00pm - Empire Granville 7
Tue, Oct 12th 4:15pm - Vancity Theatre
Varsity VIP Cinema, Toronto: Oct 8 - 14
Bell Lightbox, Toronto Buy Tix Online!
NOW IN IT'S 4TH WEEK!
Oct 15 - 20, Nightly at 8:45 PM
Facebook Event Link!
Vancity, Vancouver: Oct 16 - 21
The Bloor Cinema, Toronto: Oct 17 - 19
Cinecenta, Victoria: Oct 27 & 28
Vancity, Vancouver (Return Engagement, One Night Only!): Oct 30
Metro Cinema, Edmonton: Nov 5 - 9
The Bloor Cinema, Toronto: Nov. 19, 21 & 23.
Carlton Cinema, Toronto: Opens Oct 29
Princess Cinema, Waterloo: Nov 26 - Dec 2
Cinema du Parc, Montreal: Nov 26 - Dec 9, French at 7pm/ English at 9pm
Broadway Cinema, Saskatoon: Nov 26 - Dec 2
Bytowne Cinema, Ottawa: Dec 10 - 16
Denman Cinemas, Vancouver: Returns Dec 22nd
Bloor Cinema, Toronto: Jan 6 - 9, 2011
The Royal, Toronto: Jan 11 - 15, 2011
Ciné-Centre et Ciné Vidéo Club, Quebec City: Opens Jan 14 (w/ French Subtitles)
Regina Public Library: Jan 27 - 30, 2011
Hyland Cinema, London, Ontario: March 4 - 10, 2011
Bloor Cinema, Toronto: Feb 6 &10, 2011
Fire Hall Films, Yukon Film Society: Feb 11 @ 2:15pm
Cinéma Magog, Quebec: Opens Feb 19 (w/ French Subtitles)
About the Director:
In his short career, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has come to be recognized as one of the most original voices in Asian and world cinema. His four feature films and his short films have won him widespread international recognition and numerous festival prizes. »Blisfuly Yours« (2002) won the prize of »Un Certain Regard«, and »Tropical Malady« (2004) the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival Competition. His feature Syndromes and a Century (2006) was the first Thai film to be selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival. With »Tropical Malady«, »Syndromes and a Century« has been recognized as one of the best films of the last decade in several 2010 polls.
»Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives« compliments Apichatpong’s ‘Primitive project’, which deals with ideas of extinction and the recollection of past lives. Other elements of the project are the ambitious multiscreen installation, ‘Primitive’, which was presented in 2009 in Munich, Liverpool, and at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and two short films, ‘A Letter to Uncle Boonmee’ and ‘Phantoms of Nabua’.
UPCOMING SCREENINGS!
Plaza Theatre, Calgary: March 25 - 31, 2011
Winnipeg Cinematheque: April 8,9,10, 13 & 14, 2011
Pacific Cinematheque: April 23 & 27, 2011
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS
Toronto International Film Festival (North American Premiere)
Sept 16th @ ISABEL BADER THEATRE - 10:30pm (1st Public Screening)
Sept 18th at AMC 5, 9:15am (2nd Public Screening)
Calgary International Film Festival: Buy Tix Online!
Friday, Oct. 1, 07:15pm - Eau Claire Market - Cineplex Odeon - #1
Vancouver International Film Festival: Buy Tix Online!
Wed, Oct 6th 9:00pm - Empire Granville 7
Tue, Oct 12th 4:15pm - Vancity Theatre
Varsity VIP Cinema, Toronto: Oct 8 - 14
Bell Lightbox, Toronto Buy Tix Online!
NOW IN IT'S 4TH WEEK!
Oct 15 - 20, Nightly at 8:45 PM
Facebook Event Link!
Vancity, Vancouver: Oct 16 - 21
The Bloor Cinema, Toronto: Oct 17 - 19
Cinecenta, Victoria: Oct 27 & 28
Vancity, Vancouver (Return Engagement, One Night Only!): Oct 30
Metro Cinema, Edmonton: Nov 5 - 9
The Bloor Cinema, Toronto: Nov. 19, 21 & 23.
Carlton Cinema, Toronto: Opens Oct 29
Princess Cinema, Waterloo: Nov 26 - Dec 2
Cinema du Parc, Montreal: Nov 26 - Dec 9, French at 7pm/ English at 9pm
Broadway Cinema, Saskatoon: Nov 26 - Dec 2
Bytowne Cinema, Ottawa: Dec 10 - 16
Denman Cinemas, Vancouver: Returns Dec 22nd
Bloor Cinema, Toronto: Jan 6 - 9, 2011
The Royal, Toronto: Jan 11 - 15, 2011
Ciné-Centre et Ciné Vidéo Club, Quebec City: Opens Jan 14 (w/ French Subtitles)
Regina Public Library: Jan 27 - 30, 2011
Hyland Cinema, London, Ontario: March 4 - 10, 2011
Bloor Cinema, Toronto: Feb 6 &10, 2011
Fire Hall Films, Yukon Film Society: Feb 11 @ 2:15pm
Cinéma Magog, Quebec: Opens Feb 19 (w/ French Subtitles)
