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'Ongoing': Tilda Swinton's intimate revelations on her art and close collaborations

Actress Tilda Swinton's displays her art, recollections, personal items and more in a revealing exhibition at the Onassis Ready in Athens which is closely linked to eight key figures in her life from the world's of film and fashion.

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Heaven can't wait

In Sompot Chidgasornpongse's 9 Temples To Heaven , a Buddhist monk advises a family of merit-makers to visit his temple's gleaming new modern building. When the family expresses concern over the steep climb, a challenge to their elderly member, the monk beams: "Your mother can take the elevator to the…

Bangkok Post

Perspectives on a collection: why you should explore New Asian Art at the National Gallery of Australia

Displays of artworks from the permanent collections of state and national galleries are often overlooked. Critics tend to flock to a crowded calendar of blockbusters and temporary shows. These may offer greater novelty and relevance for current events. But this isn’t always true.

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‘Overwhelming and sublime’: the primal power of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s cinematic art

The Cannes-winning film-maker’s latest work, created specially for Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is a tribute to his obsession with the magic of light and shadow

The Guardian - AU

Viet and Nam review – hallucinatory love story feels the pain of a nation

Elusive film about a gay Vietnamese man looking for his dead father’s remains recalls the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The Guardian - UK

Samsara review – a playfully mysterious invitation to contemplate death

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s influence can be traced in Spanish film-maker Lois Patiño’s whimsical meditation on the Buddhist cycle of life

The Guardian - UK

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

Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut

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

Tilda Swinton is a florist attuned to surreal frequencies of the Amazon in Thai film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slowly beautiful and mysterious English-language debut

The Guardian - UK

Broadening horizons

The Hotel Art Fair is likely to attract visitors, collectors and gallerists with its wide range of displays from 28 art galleries, music performances, fashion, furniture and discussion groups. Held at The Standard Mahanakhon from today until Sunday, the seventh edition of the fair, organised by Farmgroup, will be launched…

Bangkok Post

Ancient Soul review – Javanese mining film is beguiling and beautiful study

A mix of fiction and ethno-doc, this portrait of life on Indonesia doesn’t quite reach the soulfulness of its models Apichatpong Weerasethakul or Lav Diaz

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

'Memoria' is a marvelously strange sonic detective story

Tilda Swinton plays a botanist who is haunted by a mysterious sound in an intriguing new film. Reviewer Justin Chang says Memoria's climax will leave your jaw on the floor.

WEKU

The local politics of Thai soft power

It was yet another passing storm in Thailand's overflowing teacup. The overnight sensation of 19-year-old rapper Danupha "Milli" Khanatheerakul at the recent Coachella Music Festival in the United States has shaken Thailand to its core foundations and revealed much that is still right and all that is wrong with this…

Bangkok Post

Review: 'Memoria' is one of the greatest movies you'll see — or hear — in a theater this year

"Memoria" begins with a bump in the night, or very early in the morning. We are in a darkened room, with just enough light peeking in to reveal the figure of a woman as she's jolted awake by a loud noise — "a rumble from the core of the Earth,"…

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In Memoria, Tilda Swinton and Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul navigate a haunted Colombia

The cult Scottish actor functions as a stand-in for director Apichatpong Weerasethakul in his tender and trance-inducing latest, which melds science fiction with the metaphysical.

Salon

Tilda Swinton's a vibe in dreamy Memoria

Step into Apichatpong Weerasethakul's trance-link film, to try an uncover the source of a mysterious sound

Bangkok Post

Filmmaker Apichatpong puts his views on show

Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul offers a window into his points of view on the world around him during "Beautiful Things" which is running at 100 Tonson Foundation, until April 10.

Bangkok Post

Silence interrupted

Much like his second feature film Blissfully Yours in 2002, serene stillness is the first impression we get from Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria (in local cinemas tomorrow). Everything remains silent for a long period of time, but suddenly there's a loud booming sound resounding in the head of Jessica, played by…

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