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Photo: Getty Images Sporting his trademark silver-rimmed sunglasses (even indoors) and a staccato laugh that pops out when a particular reminiscence strikes him as amusing, director Wong Kar Wai exudes a quiet warmth somewhat at odds with the emotional coolness often explored in his films. He made his English-language debut with 2007's My Blueberry Nights and follows it up this year with a commercial...
by Michael Koresky (October 7, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] Eradicating bad memories of the moldy " My Blueberry Nights " in one fell swoop, Wong Kar-wai 's gussied-up reissue of his 1994 "martial-arts action epic" (in quotes because it never actually feels like any of those things) is a reminder of why we fell in love with the Hong Kong auteur in the first place. Just as " Fallen...
by Brian Brooks and Eugene Hernandez (October 6, 2008) There is no slick soundtrack and no Hollywood stars playing criminals, but Italian director Matteo Garrone 's " Gomorrah ," which won the Cannes Film Festival's grand prize, and is currently screening at the New York Film Festival , is nothing short of riveting, and sadly - real. Over the last thirty years, the Comorra crime syndicate has murdered...
This is surely one of the definitive Wong Kar Wai Collection i have seen on the net. We are planning to give away this DVD to one lucky winner. The collection contains Days of Being Wild that has been called the Cantonese Rebel Without A Cause. Leslie Cheung plays one of his finest performances in this movie playing man torn apart by a search to find his mother. Another big movie in this collection...
The film boasts of one of the most formidable cast in Chinese History. Leslie Cheung leads the cast playing a man named Ouyang Feng who is torn by his love for a women who rejected him. He turns into something he can not really fathom. He lives in the western desert, hiring skilled swordsmen to do his bidding. He executes contract killings in extremes of anger and malice. The violence in this movie...
It is one of the most polarizing films in the career of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai, and one of the most sought after thanks to the lack of a presentable DVD release anywhere in the world up until very recently. And so news that the notoriously revisionist director was returning to his sole martial arts picture, Ashes of Time , to re-edit and shape it into the form he says was his original intention...
In 1994, six years before Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (followed by Yimou Zhang’s Hero) introduced contemporary Wuxia films to enthusiastic Western audiences, Wong Kar-wai’s art house martial-arts epic Ashes of Time, featuring Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, and the late Leslie Cheung, was met with mixed reviews and low box office receipts, [...]
Wong Kar-Wai reportedly designed Tony Leung and Carina Lau's wedding, administered by monks in Bhutan; a Chinese site expresses shock at a shot of Wong Kar-wai without his customary dark shades : "This is the first time that I have ever seen Wong Kar-wai without his trademark sunglasses. I never realized his face was so big; evidently the shades he wears occupy a good part of his face... [H]e looks...
Video: Won Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights is a story about letting go. We have to let go of things we've relied on or been obsessed about for a long time. The story is somewhat autobiographical. Each of the characters represent a part of Wong Kar Wai's personal mindset at certain points in time.
Left: American Gangster trailer; Right: Across the Universe trailer The 11th Shanghai International Film Festival had a rocky start on Saturday, when the opening film, Olympic Dreamers , failed to arrive, leaving confused media stranded in the rain after an unusually brief opening ceremony. Critics from around the world have noted that the event has less energy this year, a change from a decade-long...
If you’re in London this Saturday, and fancy a bit of a 1960’s Hong Kong theming, check out Lucky Cat’s club night at the Scooterworks! If you can’t make it, check out the Lucky Cat blog regularly for more future events. For more info on Zöe Baxter who is responsible for Lucky Cat, check out our previous [...]
From AP: Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai will head the jury at the Shanghai International Film Festival, which will be held June 14-22. Wong, known for his moody visuals and melancholy soundtracks, won best director at the Cannes Film Festival for "Happy Together." He replaces filmmaker Anthony Minghella, who died of a hemorrhage ...
