in the mood for love Archives

Wong Kar-Wai's classic arthouse love story of unrequited desire, In the Mood for Love, is getting a 4K restored longer cut premiering in China, including on IMAX The new cut will include nine minutes of additional footage never seen before The film is essentially a two-hander between Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung as married neighbours[...]

The first movie was a hit in Hong Kong and Asia with a major pedigree: it starred Michelle Yeoh, singer-actor Anita Mui (the closest Hong Kong had to Madonna in the 1980s and 1990s), and Maggie Cheung (later known internationally for Irma Vep and In the Mood for Love), the three biggest stars in Hong[...]

It just plods along very prettily when it should sing like Wong Kar Wai's best movies, especially In the Mood for Love, on which his reputation rests in the West. It's possible there's a great two-hour movie to be cut from those thirty episodes, but without a tale of yearning and desire, it's scene after scene[...]

The director of modern classics such as Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, and The Grandmaster began production on the series in 2020 The series will run for 30 episodes of around 50 minutes each, with the first four episodes out on December 27th – followed by two episodes per[...]

This week sees the release of the soundtrack to Wong Kar Wai's 2000 film In The Mood For Love, a soundtrack that Mondo has been trying to release for ten years Featuring a score by Michael Galasso, Shigeru Umebayashi and period-specific songs by Nat King Cole, and various Chinese Opera, and historic Pingtan recordings, it will[...]

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[...]

Filming should resume once the public health emergency is over. The Mystique of Wong Kar Wai Wong is best known for his swoony, hallucinatory romances like In the Mood for Love and Chungking Express His unique way of filming includes changing the script almost on a daily basis, which resulted in unpredictable schedules, budget overruns and thousands[...]