chungking express

Arthouse auteur Wong Kar Wai, master of romantic longing, languid melancholy, is making a sequel to Chungking Express, his 1994 classic that helped define the 1990s According to multiple posts on Chinese social media, a project with the working title of Chungking Express 2020 was approved by the China Film Administration back in April for[...]

It was to be considered a spiritual and thematic sequel to In the Mood for Love and 2046, which were in turn sequels to Wong’s second movie Days of Being Wild, the movie that originally put him on the map before he achieved international fame with Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love.Rising star[...]

Wong, Hong Kong’s most acclaimed filmmaker whose Chungking Express influenced an entire generation of filmmakers worldwide, has a long record of unmade or unfinished projects on his resumé.Meanwhile, Wong’s other major movie, Blossoms, has also been postponed indefinitely This was not his fault This is part of the Chinese government’s emergency measure to prevent further[...]

Admittedly that's mostly because I've watched Chungking Express, which he shot for director Wong Kar-wai, more than any other film, but many films which feature his cinematography are ones that I return to on a frequent basis.Doyle was born in Australia but has spent a large part of his life in Asia and in addition[...]