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nice rewind on Fallen Angels

east_bay_gray — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:24:04 GMT

"Fallen Angels was originally conceived as the third story in Wong's 1994 diptych Chungking Express, but typical of his seat-of-the-pants style, it never quite fit into that movie, and it took on a life of its own. In retrospect, Fallen Angels' darker tone and visual palette seem like the wrong fit for Chungking Express' more buoyant spirit, though there's plenty of crossover between the two, including references to expired cans of pineapple..."

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_new_cult_canon_fallen

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My Blueberry Nights

theminx — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:52:43 GMT

Has it opened in North America yet? has anyone seen it?

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The Lady From Shanghai

Allen — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:00:20 GMT

Been ages since anybody posted here. But I just noticed this on the IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439663/

Wong remakes Welles? Wild!

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how i love the psyche of the souls wong kar wai creates !

sinamuscarina — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:15:46 GMT

i feel so connected :-)
He is a real eye opener

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wong goes english

east_bay_gray — Fri, 26 May 2006 21:03:04 GMT

"The film is supposed to be a romantic comedy about a young woman (Jones) who travels across America looking for the true meaning of love and runs into some crazy personalities along the way. I'm not sure how involved Law, Portman and Weisz will be... "

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=23413

maybe i can learn to respect the cast of 'closer' again...maybe.

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last life in the universe - comments?

spiraltime — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:39:09 GMT

i recently saw this, and really liked it. besides christopher doyle's great cinematography, it really reminded me of a WKW film in terms of the unrequited nature of the characters' relationship. i also picked up the soundtrack (very ambient, poignant) and am listening to it now.

did anyone else see this? would love to hear your comments :)

btw, one of the characters i really enjoyed in 2046 was carina lau's Mimi - i think her character is the same/very similar to her character in days of being wild. true? if so, it makes me wonder if WKW is a fan of jacques demy, who had the same kind of character references across two different films (Lola, who is the principle in the film of the same name, and referenced in Umbrellas of Cherbourg).

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Tony Leung film series

iaTV — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:53:35 GMT

If any of you guys are in the New York area, you should check out the Brooklyn Art Murseum's film series on Tony Leung.

http://www.bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=52

From December 1-18

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crazy, crazy rumor...

east_bay_gray — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:08:31 GMT

SO crazy it might be true:

"I had a brief chat yesterday with a french producer who just had a phone call, he was so enthusiastic about , that he couldn't help himself not to talk : he is very close to sign the next Wong Kar Wai film, with Nicole Kidman as the main female part for sure ! Meanwhile Takeshi Kitano has been approached to play the "bad guy". The guy hadn't revealed the story except that it will be set in 1930's Shanghai... "

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=18406

kidman doesn't do much for me, except in 'the others', maybe. but this is pretty interesting...i'm sure we'll have years to entertain the idea...

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2046

Fauxred — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:46:45 GMT

how can I see it here in the US? Its not rentable and it's not playing anywhere. I only found out about WKW's films recently and fell in love with them, so I'm playing catch up.

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Maggie Cheung (+ 2046-related) article in SF Chronicle today

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:24:18 GMT

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/07/22/apop.DTL

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WKW confessions

Ji O — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:59:52 GMT

Hey all,

I want to know something....who here thinks In The Mood For Love is not just a good movie, but a GREAT movie?

Please write a little, why you think it's a great movie. I'm just curious what you all have to say, because I have a friend who is spellbound by this movie, which I liked and thought was good, and he is outraged why I didn't find it to be the pinnacle of contemporary cinema. And there is a film I think is great that he only thinks of as good and is equally as outraged in this regard as In The Mood For Love, because of my GREAT rating. It has a lot to do with me and his personality that goes beyond our film sensibilities. But anyways I'll let u guys tell it...

Sound off...

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paper

smartlikeatruck — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:38:08 GMT

i am silly and chose to do a paper on wong kar-wei for my film class...
and now? i can't find anything at any local stores. i have one place left to hit, and then i think i have to give up the ghost.

its ridiculous that i can't even find chunking express.

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eros

east_bay_gray — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:11:30 GMT

now playing at the nuart in la...a quick google turns up "... a handjob for the Wong cult."

hmmm.

http://wip.warnerbros.com/eros/

http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_040917eros.html
http://www.movienet.com/eros.html

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one of the greatest to capture and sculpt time

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:42:29 GMT

i think he's the greatest living director besides bergman.
i think he's one of the heads of the table where great image makers sit
as is ingmar.
andrei tarkovsky, sergei parajanov, robert bresson, godard, kurosawa, dryer, herzog, errol morris, david lynch, harmony korrine, cronenberg, pt anderson.ozu, mizoguchi,jarmusch, vertov

i could go on and on.
they are esenstially
people who know how the human mind works with in it's structure of our 5 senses and our minds.

everyone of those directors have given me moments that have for ever changed my life.

here here
to stretching the limits around us to proove we are real and the same.

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Days of Being Wild in SF cinema

dragisak — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:17:55 GMT

Yes. It's showing at Opera Plaza. And I am going to see it tonight the only proper way - with bunch of strangers in a big dark room.

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2046 review number 2 (much shorter)

Rocco — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 02:52:46 GMT

after spending 19 hours downloading this off bittorent i finally got to watch it tonight.

No comparison to In the Mood. In a movie about relationships, the relationships are totally lacking. loss is a hard thing for me to deal with in the first place, but this gets totally absurd. you want to start bashing tony over the head for his utter stupidity and selfishness by the end of it, but i guess thats what hes supposed to make you think. either way, pretty unsuccessful. the scifi thing just turns out to be weird. at first i thought they were all playing each other in the future but even that doesnt turn out to be true. as usual, chris doyle does amazing things, but still not the same as in the mood for love, i thinkly most because as good as style and artwork can be, it all needs to back up the bigger picture, which is weak throughout.

this is a raw version, but i had to get it out of my system. im just so dissapointed. im gonna half to watch in the mood again to get my spirits up.

even with all these complaints, still worth seeing. better than most of the schlock we see nowadays.

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Christopher Doyle

DP is on Facebook....you won't find me h — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:36:36 GMT

anyone seen "Last Life in the Universe",a Thai film?? Doyle did the cinematography for this as well.......beautiful to look at......

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chungking express

east_bay_gray — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 17:52:28 GMT

in my top 5 of all time on any given day.

faye wong is a fairy from outer space...she simply CAN'T be human...

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2046 english sub trailer

east_bay_gray — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:42:18 GMT

http://download.wire9.com/substance/2046_trailer/2046_trailer_330k.mov

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European Movie Awards

Gi Gi — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:30:50 GMT

WKW's 2046 took the Prix Award at the European Movie Awards
over Micahel Moore's 9/11 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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da house of flying daggers...

east_bay_gray — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:29:13 GMT

http://losangeles.tribe.net/template/pub%2CEvent.vm?eventid=517468ad-559b-4a52-bbec-69337aef5f5b&nextpage=http%3A%2F%2Flosangeles.tribe.net%2Fhome%3Fr%3D10025&r=10025

wkw can only work so fast, eh?

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ashes of time

east_bay_gray — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 17:53:59 GMT

this was tough for me. i actually have to say i didn't care for it overall. it has good moments, it has great wong kar wai- isms...but the package falls apart IMO...

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2046 - The Review

Allen — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:17:21 GMT

Let me preface my comments by saying that I own every WKW film on DVD. That's how much I value his work.

With "2046," Wong Kar-Wai has labored over a film that feels just that -- labored. Its elliptical narrative fails to deliver any real drama at all, while at the same time occasionally bordering on pretentious. I really, really wanted to like this film. But I kept waiting for the point.

There are a few spoilers below, but it's almost impossible to ruin the surprise of a film in which not much happens.

It is not a sequel to "In the Mood for Love," yet it refers back to that film as a touchstone for its events. Tony Leung's character is ostensibly the same Mr. Chow we saw in that last film, yet his formerly pensive, sensitive character has morphed into an oily bastard who suffers occasional pangs of guilt.

His story, set in Hong Kong and Singapore in the years immediately following "In the Mood," takes him through three relationships. In the first, with the utterly gorgeous and saucy Zhang Ziyi, he uses her as a toy for his amusement, but rejects commitment when she falls in love with him (anyone who would dump the delicious Zhang loses all my sympathy). In the second, he befriends his landlord's daughter (the almost too-cute Faye Wong), with whom he now falls in love. Finally, he has a brief encounter with Black Spider (Gong Li), who shares the name of his former flame, Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung, who appears onscreen for only about 2 seconds, damnit!). Since she also dresses like a gothic version of the old Su Lizhen, he inadvertently falls for her as well, though he knows it's doomed.

The science fiction story he writes as a metaphor for his life completely fails to connect to any kind of a greater theme. Not only does the supposed meta-narrative only intersect briefly with the main plot, it never truly deepens the story or characters in any illuminating way, except in the broadest, most obvious strokes possible. His sci-fi alter-ego, Tak, falls for an android (also Faye Wong) who won't return his affection. So what? The comparison drawn between the two adds nothing to our understanding of Chow. 2046, we are told in opening narration, is supposedly where people go to recapture lost memories; again, this is supposedly the purpose of Chow's story -- to recapture his own memories -- but it doesn't work as a plot device in the least.

In fact, much of this film feels sophomoric, as the characters often telegraph what they are thinking and feeling through awkward dialogue. The film looks like what it is, an overshot, overwrought, excercise in burning reels of film that was discovered in the editing room.

What a mess! Poor Wong. He overreaches and falls flat on his face with this one. I don't hate the film, because there is almost enough there to hang onto -- but it is easily his weakest work. It's also his most frustrating film, since you can see what he was getting at and where he failed.

Yes, there are some beautiful shots, including a few that deliberately reference specific shots from "In the the Mood for Love." And WKW's taste in soundtrack music is impeccable as always. But the movie is all bun and no burger.

The company to which I link below is the distributor for, I believe, mainland China, since the version I saw was in Mandarin (Tony was dubbed, Zhang was not) with English subs. So this wouldn't be a bootleg per se, but an unauthorized import. It's also floating around on Bit Torrent.

http://www.gdface.com/product/product.php?Title=obYyMDQ2obc=&ID=Nzcx

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. We all waited far too long for such a disappointing result. Maybe next the film will put him back on track.

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Hero

dragisak — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:56:17 GMT

I saw recently Zhang Yimou's Hero. Mostly because Christopher Doyle
did photography. Plus, Maggie Cheung and 'Little Gong Li' were
staring too. ;)

Story is kind of weird. Altho director tried his best, I still had hard
time sympathising with expansionsit dictators.

But visualy. Movie was quite impresive.

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I bought a bootleg DVD of the "director's cut" in SF Chinatown

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:35:07 GMT

Region 3 only, I'm watching it tomorrow. It was $7.98.

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Interview to Wong Kar-Wai on 2046

rizomas — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:41:17 GMT

A Film Odyssey: Wong Kar-wai's 2046

Interview at:

www.time.com/time/asia/m...ine/article/0,13673,501041004-702208-1,00.html

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time magazine

east_bay_gray — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 06:14:32 GMT

"We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love"

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501041004-702208-1,00.html

cross posted from cyberpunk tribe thanky nexus.

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2046 out this Weds, Sept 20 in PARIS!!

putyourflareon — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:43:58 GMT

I can't wait to see it!

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5 flick box set

east_bay_gray — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:15:01 GMT

50 euros cheap...

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002ZL1BA/ref%3Dpd%5Frhf%5Fp%5F1/402-7027701-7382566

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hi, atom

east_bay_gray — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:52:50 GMT

2046 views on you
10 since 8/23

heh heh heh heh heh....

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Somewhere in the world, a film by Wong Kar Wai is playing that I can’t see yet. Grrrrrr...

east_bay_gray — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 03:28:18 GMT

nice review at AICN...

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=18571

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2046 presskit and photos

east_bay_gray — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:34:09 GMT

in ze french pdf format...

http://www.ocean-films.com/2046/presse.htm

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TRAILER !!!!

east_bay_gray — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:03:05 GMT

smallish-windows-media-captured-from-japanese-tv-commercial-sort-of-mini-TRAILER !!!!

http://www.lossless.us/movies/2046/2046-trailer-jp-1.wmv

AND more faye and maggie scenes being shot...

According to Chinese media, director Wong Kar-Wai is still shooting his 2046. Since returning from Cannes, he has made some additional scenes with Maggie Cheung and Faye Wong. More scenes might be shot in Shanghai. As the result, Maggie Cheung's share will be increased from one-shot cameo in the Cannes version to a role with approximately 15 minutes scenes in the final theatrical version. 2046 will be released in China, including Hong Kong, late September.

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do you like pineapple ?

east_bay_gray — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:48:38 GMT

do you care if it's expired ? may 1st is coming.

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mysterious In The Mood book

artiste_de_goddess — Mon, 24 May 2004 23:58:25 GMT

I am new here-- hello--

I have a question: there was a book being created from the still shots of In The Mood For Love, and there was no way to find out how to buy one. It had poetic phrases along with the photos. It was so beautiful-- I really wanted it badly. I sent along an inquiry to the Block2 e-mail, which came back returned. I gave up, seeing no other way to find the book.

Now, recently, the French website:www.inthemoodforlove-wkw.com/flash.html

works just the same...
but the English version: http://www.wkw-inthemoodforlove.com/

does not for me somehow... which is where I found the info about the book.

Does anyone know anything about this book-- and how to find information in English about it? My elementary Japanese is as good as a two-year-old child's. Otherwise, I am in the dark.

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bruce lee flick is next for wkw?

east_bay_gray — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:35:17 GMT

could it be possible? did i win something? holy cow...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/24/content_1487231.htm

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wong kar wai sounds

east_bay_gray — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:33:29 GMT

an old WFMU playlist is still active...clips of music from wkw films, albeit in really nasty chopped up realplayer clips...

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/5072

via:
http://www.wongkarwai.net/stories.php

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Cannes article

Rocco — Fri, 21 May 2004 22:59:13 GMT

i dont know how many of u guys out there either live in NYC, or get the new york times, but there was an article in the arts section today about Cannes and the 2046 premiere there. good story: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/movies/21CANN.html

its not on 2046 specifically, but still has a lot about it,

happy gossiping,
Rocco

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NEW Photos!!!

Allen — Mon, 17 May 2004 06:13:29 GMT

From the official Cannes press packet, 20 juicy new hi-res pics of the entire cast, WKW, as well as a few sweet stills.

Enjoy -- my gift to my fellow rabid WKW fans.

-A

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Chris Doyle

Mon, 03 May 2004 09:50:34 GMT

Watched a documentary on Chris Doyle specifically & his relationship to HK cinema & Wong Kar-wai the other night. What came through very clearly is the friendship & respect these two hold for each other.

Indeed, Wong Kar-wai made the comment that "although Chris Doyle looks western in outward appearance", (as well he might since he was born in NSW), "on the inside he is Chinese & not just Chinese but Hong Kong Chinese"

I was watching in case there was a shot of Karen Mok or perhaps a commentary from her, but unfortunately not. Tell you what though, Chris Doyle swears like you wouldn't believe, I mean every second word was 'F' to the point where it was almost an affectation. Certainly I didn't think that his constant swearing at an LA based University film school, (re his work on Psycho) was very appropriate, especially in America where they take every little thing to heart, (no offence to any US forum viewers).

Very interesting piece though & his Chinese girlfriend/wife was in a word 'Hot'..........

They showed excerpts from Fallen Angels & a couple of earlier films, whose names I can't remember right now.

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Update.

east_bay_gray — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:06:40 GMT

Monkeypeaches comes through again...

According to Chinese media, filming of 2046 has wrapped up (it's not the first time to hear that) and director Wong Kar-Wai is reaching the end of the post-production. Four years ago, Wong Kar-Wai sent an unfinished film called In The Mood For Love to Cannes and still grabbed two awards. Will he do it again?

There's also a link for the "official French site" on their page, which seems to be broken at the moment.

http://www.monkeypeaches.com/2046.html

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did he just come out with a new film?

Rocco — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 04:59:27 GMT

hello all, this may be a stupid/strange question, but i just heard from a reliable source that Kar-Wai just came out with a new film. this persons friend had just been over to do an interview with him. dont know what the deal was, or if this was just a completely lie, or if im just not up to date on info, but could someone please fill me in? thx

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more shooting.

east_bay_gray — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:28:12 GMT

dang. we thought he finally wrappped.

February 11, 2004
Director Wong Kar-Wai has scheduled more shooting for 2046, according to Chinese paper Business Times. Shooting will restart in Hong Kong, and then in Shanghai. It will wrap up by the end of this month.

via http://www.monkeypeaches.com/2046.html

*sigh*

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