Top 10: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

We asked the director of Cemetery of Splendor and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives for his ten favorite films from the last ten years. Instead, he presented us with this list of ten favorite films “that randomly came to my mind – now.”

– in alphabetical order –

1. Blue (Derek Jarman, 1993, United Kingdom)

2. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA)

3. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988, United Kingdom)

4. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965, USA)

5. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997, USA)

6. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, Taiwan)

7. Prefab People (Béla Tarr, 1982, Hungary)

8. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1993, Taiwan)

9. Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie, 1970, USA)

10. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, France)

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10/10 is an ongoing series in which we ask cinephiles to name their ten favorite films from the last ten years (currently, between 2006 and 2016).