APICHATPONG VERSUS MOZART

Thai director, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, (TROPICAL MALADY) has announced that his next feature will be INTIMACY AND TURBULENCE, a movie dedicated to his parents and co-financed by the New Crowned Hope Project, which has commissioned six movies about the life of Mozart, to be screened in Vienna next year to celebrate Mozart's 250th Birthday.

The movies are each budgeted at under US$3 million, and they don't have to deal directly with the life of Mozart or use his music, they merely have to address his themes in a modern context.

Some of the other directors involved in the project (which will see the movies released in late 2006) are Tsai Ming-liang (WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?) and Indonesia's Garin Nugroho.