Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is a ladies’ man. He knows how to attract them and keep them at a distance. Having been burned in an earlier affair, he is loath to reveal to them the ache of lost love at ...
Sitting in the front row of the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in June, a young woman from Hong Kong smiled broadly and shifted around in her seat excitedly, awaiting the start of a screening ...
If there is a cinema more sensuous than that of Hong Kong's master of the exquisite image, Wong Kar-wai, I have yet to see it. His films are like seductive dances with his actors, only their practiced ...
Chinese actress Gong Li smiles during arrivals for the screening of Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai's film entry '2046' which competes for the Palme d'Or at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, May 20, 2004. ...
In room 2046 lives Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), a prostitute of flawless beauty, with whom Chow embarks on an affair. Bai Ling falls in love with him, but the past weighs too heavily on Chow's heart for him ...
Michael Haneke‘s post-colonial psychological thriller “Cache” (“Hidden”) was another popular entry, winning the most votes for best director and much praise for its cinematography. Other favorites in ...
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai might be the signal filmmaker of the past decade, his frenetic, romantic, spontaneous, and visually extravagant mix-tape movies offering a definitive image of modern ...