IT’S taken a while, but the 2001 Thai stunner “Blissfully Yours” is getting a commercial run in New York.
Cine File first saw it in Rotterdam a few years back, and was suitably impressed. This past May, it received a single screening at BAM Rose Cinemas.
Now Anthology Film Archives is giving the sexually frank import a seven-day showcase, starting Friday.
In one of the screen’s longest (45 minutes) pre-credit openings, “Blissfully” introduces its three main characters: an illegal immigrant with a horrible skin disease and two Thai women who control his destiny.
The film, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (that’s no typo), then follows the three through one languid day in the wild. Nothing really happens, but “Blissfully” is blissful nevertheless.
It’s the third movie from Thailand to open here this year, after “Last Life in the Universe” and “Bang Rajan.”
The Anthology is at Second Avenue and Second Street; (212) 505-5181.
* The uncut version of a forgotten Marlon Brando drama, “Burn!” (1968), is headed for Film Forum.
Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s follow-up to “The Battle of Algiers” (1965), “Burn!” features Brando as a British agent provocateur on a Caribbean island in the 1840s who helps black slaves free themselves.
Ten years later, he returns to suppress a revolt led by the leader he had created.
The original U.S. release was re-edited and shortened by 20 minutes. The Forum will be unreeling the complete (132 minutes) Italian-language edition.
The theater is on Houston Street, west of Sixth Avenue; (212) 727-8110.
* Silents please! If you can’t make it to the annual Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy, you can catch some of the prestigious event’s top offerings at BAM Rose Cinemas.
The opener, on Thursday, is Alexandre Volkoff’s “Casanova” (1927), with Russian star Ivan Mosjoukine as the great lover.
Other entries include Ernst Lubitsch’s “The Marriage Circle” (1924), a comedy with Adolphe Menjou, Florence Vidor and Monte Blue, and a program of shorts by D.W. Griffith.
The series goes through next Sunday at BAM, Lafayette Avenue, off Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn; (718) 636-4100.
V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post. He can be e-mailed at [email protected]