MODERN CINEMA, WEEK 2: APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Thursday, October 13–Sunday, October 16, 2016
Adding a contemporary dimension to the season, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films are haunted both by the ghosts of cinema past and by their own characters, who move freely between past and present, life and death. For Weerasethakul, cinema itself is haunted. The artist has selected two titles from Janus Films and the Criterion Collection—The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973) and The River...
MODERN CINEMA, WEEK 2: APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Thursday, October 13–Sunday, October 16, 2016
Adding a contemporary dimension to the season, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films are haunted both by the ghosts of cinema past and by their own characters, who move freely between past and present, life and death. For Weerasethakul, cinema itself is haunted. The artist has selected two titles from Janus Films and the Criterion Collection—The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973) and The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)—that have haunted his films to accompany this retrospective of his own work.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
7:00 An Evening with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
6:00 Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012)
8:00 Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
1:00 The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
3:30 Shorts by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
6:00 Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
8:30 Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1962)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16
2:00 Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
4:30 The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973)
7:00 Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
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Co-presented by SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Film Society, Modern Cinema is a new series of film exhibitions exploring the dynamic forces interacting between cinema's past and present.
For this inaugural program, we celebrate an institution that has become synonymous with the very best of international art cinema—The Criterion Collection and its sister company Janus Films—alongside a contemporary voice in film, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is among cinema's most creative and playful filmmakers, drawing from modern film culture to make his much-celebrated feature films, experimental shorts and ambitious installation projects.
