Wong Kar Wai

Film review: Ashes Of Time Redux

A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

A re-edit of Wong Kar-wai???s martial arts film doesn'??t make any more sense than it did the first time, but it sure is pretty.

NYFF 2008: "Ashes of Time Redux."

The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

When Wong Kar-wai's lone attempt at a martial arts film, "Ashes of Time," first came out in 1994, it was considered by most to be awfully pretty and mystifyingly elliptical. "Redux" finds it restored, re-edited, seven minutes shorter, with feverishly heightened colors and dramatic new music from Yo-Yo Ma. Having never seen the original version, I can't speak to whether it's also been clarified, but...

ASHES OF TIME REDUX @ NYFF - Q&A with Wong, Doyle, Lin

Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

ASHES OF TIME REDUX director Wong Kar-Wai, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and actress Brigitte Lin at the 46th New York Film Festival, October 4, 2008, answering questions from Scott Foundas and audience. Visit filmlinc.com for more from the New York Film Festival. Part One Part Two Part Three

NYFF. Ashes of Time Redux.

GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

Following its premiere in Cannes and two screenings at the New York Film Festival, Ashes of Time Redux sees a release on Friday in New York and Los Angeles. Wong Kar-wai "has followed up his Blueberry mess by returning...

Rising from the ashes

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008

On the eve of the unveiling of a breathtakingly restored new version of his little-seen martial arts epic "Ashes of Time," Hong Kong's most enigmatic and talented director, Wong Kar Wai, talks to Jeff Yang about the death and rebirth of Hong Kong cinema -...

Wong Kar Wai on ‘Ashes of Time Redux’ and the Joys of Working With a Drunk, Naked Cinematographer

Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

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...

JAMIE STUART: NYFF46 #3

Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

On the Filmmaker Video page you'll find the third part of Jamie Stuart's NYFF46. Appearances by Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood, Mike Leigh, Wong Kar-Wai, Christopher Doyle, Alexander Olch and Susan Meiselas. If you haven't seen the first two episodes in this year's series, which you need to have seen to follow this one, you can find them here.

REVIEW | The Perfect Storm: Wong Kar-wai's "Ashes of Time Redux"

Movies (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

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...

YOU WILL WAKE UP WITH ANGELINA JOLIE...

Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

... and Brad Pitt... and Mike Leigh, Wong Kar-wai, and Christopher Doyle. They're all in Jamie Stuart's latest, NYFF46: Part Three. Check back Tuesday morning for the piece.

NYFF '08 | "Gomorrah," Garrone and Scorsese in NYC; Wong Kar Wai Revisits "Ashes of Time"

On The Scene (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

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...

Kar-wai Finishes Sifting through Ashes of Time

Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

A troubling discovery at a film lab ten years ago spurred director Wong Kar-wai to begin a restoration of his 1994 release, "Ashes of Time" -- an effort that has reached its conclusion with "Ashes of Time Redux."

in nyc | lin, doyle

eugonline (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Wong Kar Wai's re-envisioned "Ashes of Time" is one of the most beautiful films I've seen in quite some time. As an example, watch the faces of the film's leads -- Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung -- which are often used like a scrim. Faint shadows from an adjacent spinning birdcage or the reflections of nearby running water...

Wong Kar-wai's phoenix project, rising at last

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

"Ashes of Time Redux" is a martical-arts movie that took years to film and more years to restore.

• Film: Wong Kar-wai’s Phoenix Project, Rising at Last - New York Times

Wise Man Wong Wows With Wistful Desert Walk

The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008

Ashes of Time Redux Running time 93 minutes Written and directed ByWong Kar-wai Starring Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time Redux , from his own screenplay (in Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles), is based on the novel by Louis Cha. It combines a martial-arts background with a fatalistic meditation in the foreground on lost...

NYFF. 24 City.

GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008

"At a time when the other leading figures of Chinese-language cinema, including Wong Kar-wai and Tsai Ming-liang, seem fully committed to (or, in a few cases, trapped by) the styles and themes that made them famous, with each new...