CHUNGKING EXPRESS established Wong’s reputation as a major auteur, the most glamorous and enigmatic since Godard.
It was supervised and approved by Wong Kar Wai. This 4K digital restoration was undertaken from the 35mm original camera negative by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata and Jet Tone.
Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. The whiplash, double-pronged CHUNGKING EXPRESS is one of the defining works of ‘90s cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. If you’d like to consider an additional donation to the Belcourt, we’d be most grateful. When prompted, sign in or create a Belcourt account. *Because we’re streaming through the Belcourt's ticketing system, we’re delighted to be able to provide member pricing for this film. WATCH ON: Computer, tablet, smartphone, Chromecast, AirPlay (or use a HDMI cable to connect your computer or tablet with your TV) "canny" ( also: "cannily," e.g.PRICE*: $10 ($8 members) | VIEWING WINDOW: 3 days.
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"Unfortunately, compared with Rohmer's earlier work, in particular the series known as 'Six Moral Tales,' The Romance of Astrea and Celadon has little to say about eros that's still relevant. "I found myself unprepared for the emotional wallop". "For " (exception: the Histoire(s) du cinéma, which invented the practice in cinemaville). Chungking Jungle (aka Chungking Express). Spring Light Bursts Forth (aka Happy Together). Paul Thomas Anderson's new film is titled Licorice Pizza. There are two Mays - the one he loves and the other suggested to him at Midnight Express. There's much to be said about this film but observations come in scoops. She carves her way through the improbable knots of the Chungking Jungle, that is Chungking Mansions (in that very Asian-specific sense of the word, i.e., clustered apartments, though not quite the upper-middle-class or upper-class manshon of Japan), and it's as though she owns the place. ( "If someone could be canned, would they also have expiration dates?") Criss-cross: His double is the cool and conscientious Tony Leung, a police officer like himself the 'cleaning burglar' (and real-world pop singer) Faye Wong's is drug-ring organizer Brigitte Lin done up in a blonde wig that updates the American 1940s femme fatale and predates Lynch's Laura Elena Harring. (Kaneshiro rejects that a race is equivalent to jogging this exercise should be done in private.) The expiration date on the cans of Del Monte pineapples looms not only is (real-world pop singer) Takeshi Kaneshiro calling through the void to a woman, his missing May, he's also rushing to acquire as many of these expired cans as he's still able before they disappear to landfills - May-Day, his birthday. ( Fallen Angels was originally to have supplied additional stories to the Chungking anthology.) It lends speed to the proceedings - two medium-length works back to back, perhaps a kind of corrective from the prolonged shoot on Ashes of Time, from which Chungking Express represented a respite! Wong's characters are always running a race against speed. Does that yearning feeling of 'those wonderful varied years' (the Chinese title of In the Mood for Love) come undissipated at the moment of release, say, the recognition that Tony Leung and Faye Wong love one another, and if so, why should this be? The film wants to have it two ways at once - perhaps the seed of the idea on Wong's part to break it up into a diptych. I feel the same way about Days of Being Wild. For all its rushes there's something strangely melancholy about the film.
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