The SNG Machine!! (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Celebrated director Wong Kar-Wai revisits his 1994 film ASHES OF TIME, the Hong Kong filmmaker’s only entry into the martial arts genre. Based on the novel by Louis Cha, this film follows a lone swordsman (Leslie Cheung) as time passes. ASHES OF TIME REDUX also stars Tony Leung Ka Fai, Brigitte Lin, and Tony Leung [...] Download This movies In High Quality 300x faster downloads then anywhere else online....
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Clint Eastwood’s Changeling will be the centerpiece of the 46 th New York Film festival and the Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky will be the closing night selection. The film society of Lincoln announced yesterday. Another highlight of the festival is the revival of the Max Ophuls’s final masterpiece, “Lola Montes,”. It will be featured in the festival’s spotlight retrospective. All the 28 films for the...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Film News: Aronofsky's 'Wrestler' to close event -- Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" will be the centerpiece of the 46th New York Film Festival, while Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" will close the event.
Transbuddha.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Well, snip my britches. Wong Kar-Wai has given his epic Ashes of Time the redux treatment! This was my introduction to Kar-Wei, and it’s remained one of the most hallucinatory, sensory overload films ever (in my mind), and certainly a hallmark of martial arts cinema. Production was so demanding (and so delayed) [...]
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
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...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
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...
Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
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, [...]
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Here is a link to the premiere trailer of the highly anticipated Redux of Wong Kar Wai's Ashes of Time . I've heard a lot about this since its premiere at Cannes and can't wait to see this for the first time. The last Redux I remember seeing was of Apocalypse Now , which I was not a fan of (the redux, that is...the original is brilliant.) It may help that I'm not familiar with the original Ashes of...
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival added nine more feature-film premieres to this year's line-up and they pack quite a bit of star power (which translates to the possibility of several exciting celebrity sightings this September). Celebrities strutting their stuff in two Galas and seven Special Presentations include Gerard Butler, Dakota Fanning, Ralph Fiennes, Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Hudson,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Film News: Festival adds 9 world premieres to slate -- The screen adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s 2002 bestseller “The Secret Life of Bees” will world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival as a Gala. All 21 pics announced by the fest on Thursday are North American preems; nine are also world preems.
Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
DB here: The Cannes screening of Ashes of Time Redux reminds us that Wong Kar-wai has been an incessant reviser of his work. Versions proliferate in different markets—one for Hong Kong, one for Taiwan, one for the international market—and he has sometimes promised online versions, or bonus DVD features. Buenos Aires Zero Degree (1999) by Kwan [...]
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
The directors Wong Kar Wai in "Ashes of Time Redux" and Terence Davies in "Of Time and the City" use the past for inspiration. Raymond Depardon's "Modern Life" is a documentary on rural life and agriculture in France. Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah" traces the malignant extent of the Camorra in Naples.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Memory twists and turns, peering into this and that dark corner in Wong Kar-wai’s “Ashes of Time Redux” and Terence Davies's “Of Time and the City.”
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
"National cinemas have different Golden Ages," writes Mary Corliss for Time. "For Hong Kong, it was the decade from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, when directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo were revitalizing the crime film, and when young...
