Wisit Sasanatieng's 2000 Tears Of The Black Tiger was a giddily coloured melodramatic (if occasionally silly) take on a Thai Western. His follow up, 2004's Citizen Dog, is equally colourful and is more of a romantic comedy, though with many surrealistic touches. The comedy doesn't always work for me (some is a bit too broad), but it's entertaining and eye candy of the purest form:
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This doesn't have anything to do with this post, but I didn't know how else to contact you to ask for your participation in a survey I'm conducting to be published on Halloween, of the 31 GREATEST HORROR FILMS. I'd love it if you, or any other interested parties, would submit a nominating list. Even if you're, like me, not the biggest horror movie geek--that's one of the reasons I'm doing this, to find out about some more great movies.
Here's a link to the original announcement.
http://shoottheprojectionist.
blogspot.com/2007/09/31-greatest-
horror-films-survey.html
geez, that is one beautiful film.
is it eye candy purely for eye candy's sake, or is it actually worth watching?
How can one answer such a question? Of course it's worth watching, even if you do or do not like it. But if you have gut instincts that tell you, "Maybe I shouldn't watch this film...", go with your instincts of course.
Beautiful stills from the film, dude!!
I have a soft spot for this film because it was my write-up for it that secured my gig with Twitch, which is how I secured my press credentials at TIFF. One thing leads to the other, eh?
Very cool Michael...I found your review and read it - great stuff. It's pretty hard to take a bad screencap in this film...
shahn, I think the film is definitely worthwhile. Though there are spots of comedy I didn't like that much and a main female character that annoyed the crap out of me sometimes, there is still a great deal to really enjoy here (even outside the beautiful visuals) - the love story comes together nicely at the end and there is also some good deadpan comedic elements.
And I couldn't help smiling throughout most of it.
It's funny. I had real problems with this film when I saw it at TIFF in 2005 (http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2005/09/16/citizendog/) but when I recently saw it available on DVD for less than $20, I was really tempted to pick it up. Looking at your screencaps confirms it. This is definitely a film I'd like to look at again ("watch again" is probably not accurate, though).
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