Film Fresh - Wong Kar-Wai

Happy Together

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$19.99

Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Wong Kar-Wai's HAPPY TOGETHER is a stunning display of filmmaking style and a touching story of love on the brink of dissolution. Hong Kong cinema superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung play a pair of lovers living out the waning days of their relationship as expatriates in Buenos Aires. Lusty tango bars, the salsa music of the La Boca sidewalks, and a hypnotic visit to the nearby Iguazu Falls give further dimension to the tensions growing between the two lovers.

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Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Foreign Film, 1998 Independent Spirit Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Director, 1997 Cannes Film Festival

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/11/14/DD24951.DTL

Review quote:

"A take-no-prisoners movie from one of Hong Kong's most idiosyncratic, shoot-from-the-hip filmmakers that's the very antithesis of sentimental gay love stories." -- Kevin Thomas, LA TIMES

Year:

1997

Length:

97min

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In The Mood For Love

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Two apartment neighbors discover that their respective spouses are having an affair.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Golden Palm, 2000 Cannes Film Festival

Awards – Won:

Best Actor (Leung), Best Actress (Cheung), Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume, 2001 Hong Kong Film Awards

Best Actor (Leung)

http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=&title2=In%20the%20Mood...

Review quote:

"The sexiest movie of the year, it turns out, is PG-rated." -- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST

Year:

2000

Length:

98min

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Fallen Angels

maint — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:09:46 +0000

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Commonly regarded as one of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema, Wong Kar-Wai has developed a signature style that employs bold, experimental uses of photography, music, and editing to capture the tension of the new millennium. Originally intended to be a third story in his now classic film CHUNGKING EXPRESS, FALLEN ANGELS has emerged as what some critics have come to consider his "quintessential work." Set in the neon-washed underworld of present day Hong Kong, Fallen Angels intertwines exhilarating tales of love and isolation, primarily the unconsummated love affair between a contract Killer (Lai Ming) and the ravishing female Agent (Reis) who books his assignments and cleans up after his jobs.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Won:

Won: Best Supporting Actress (Mok), Best Cinematography, Best Score, 1996 Hong Kong Film Awards

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980619/REVIEWS/80619...

Review quote:

"Wong brings tremendous vigor and audacity to the effort, asking us to question the most basic rules of storytelling and commercial filmmaking." -- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Year:

1995

Length:

96min

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Days Of Being Wild

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In his first hypnotic backward glance at Hong Kong in 1960, Wong Kar Wai creates a post-modern LA RONDE set in a fluorescent labyrinth of cool desperation and unfulfilled need. Against the echoing rhythms of period rumbas, DAYS OF BEING WILD tracks a half dozen characters through their individual searches for intimate connection. Collaborating for the first time with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Wong Kar Wai's restless visual imagination decorates this dreamlike fable with characteristic muted extravagance. DAYS OF BEING WILD offers an intoxicating cocktail of lush nostalgia and bitter alienation equaled only by Wong Kar Wai's subsequent films. Star crossed Asian film icon Leslie Cheung (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE, HAPPY TOGETHER) plays Luddy, a devastatingly handsome Hong Kong lothario who seduces and forsakes women without compunction. Abandoned at birth, Luddy's self-destructive search for love is really a Quixotic quest for a feeling of permanence and a sense of identity. When Luddy beguiles lovely shop girl Su Lizen, he unknowingly sets in motion a sequence of broken hearts and unremembered promises that climaxes in naked obsession, inadvertent self-discovery and shocking violence. In possibly her most engaging performance, Maggie Cheung (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, AS TEARS GO BY) invests Su Lizen with ethereal beauty and street level vulnerability. With a supporting cast of Hong Kong cinema notables, including Andy Lau (FULLTIME KILLER, AS TEARS GO BY) as Su's policeman confessor, and frequent Wong collaborator Tony Leung (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, HAPPY TOGETHER), DAYS OF BEING WILD's visionary audacity and deep romantic conviction sustains and rewards multiple viewings.

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Actress (Lau), 1991 Golden Horse Film Festival

Awards – Won:

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Cheung), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, 1991 Hong Kong Film Awards

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/25/DDGLRBFTB71.DTL

Review quote:

"It's a fascinating ride." -- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST

Year:

1991

Length:

89min

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Chungking Express

maint — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:09:44 +0000

$9.99

Tasty take-out isn't the only thing served hot at this little fast food place -- the lives and loves of its colorful customers also criss-cross over the counter! From a lovesick cop and a mysterious blonde to a free-spirited girl pursuing a secret love, spicy romance is the specialty of the house! For delicious crowd-pleasing romance and fun, Chungking Express delivers!

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Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Best Foreign Film, 1997 Independent Spirit Awards

Awards – Won:

Best Picture, Best Actor (Wai), Best Editing, Best Director, 1995 Hong Kong Film Awards

Best Actress (Wong), FIPRESCI Prize, 1994 Stockholm Film Festival

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/03/15/WEEKEND2814.dtl

Review quote:

"The real, unadulterated thing." -- Walter Addiego, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Year:

1994

Length:

102min

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2046

maint — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:09:39 +0000

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2046: A pulp novel. The number of the room next door. The date of Hong Kong's complete integration into China. In this sequel of sorts to Wong Kar Wei's celebrated IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays Chow Mo Wan, a writer and womanizer. Chow Mo Wan is writing a pulp nouvella about a far away city where people go to recapture their memories. He names the book 2046, after the number of the room next door, where a beautiful woman resides. His life is full of beautiful women, past, present and future... six, to be precise, played by Li Gong, Ziyi Zhang and Maggie Cheung, among others. As Wong Kar Wai fans know, plot descriptions do not communicate the cinematic depth of his films. Wong operates at an operatic level, and in this film, he infuses every scene with beauty and longing. 2046 is an elusive meditation on the human heart and its search for love.

List Price: $14.95

Film details

Format:

Widescreen

Awards – Nominated:

Golden Palm, 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Awards – Won:

Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/movies/05wong.html?ex=1142398800&en=af6254...

Review quote:

An "enigmatic, rapturously beautiful meditation." -- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE.

Year:

2004

Length:

129min

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