Top 10 off the Top: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Filmmakers share favourite films that immediately come to mind.
October Rumbles, a new short film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is available to stream until November 12th via The Polygon Gallery where the director has mounted an exhibition. Another new short film by Apichatpong is screening as part of the omnibus Cinetracts ’20 over at Le Cinéma Club for the next week. I asked him to send over a spontaneous list of favourite films:
“There are so many. I am quickly running through my mind and present you with these.” -Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1993)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Valentin de las Sierras (Bruce Baillie, 1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
Empire (Andy Warhol, 1964)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, 1987)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)