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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 […]

Critics' darling and deliberately enigmatic filmmaker Wong Kar Wai has begun work on his first TV series, Blossoms Shanghai. The show is an adaptation of award-winning novel Blossoms by Shanghainese novelist Jin Yucheng. Wong had previously announced he was adapting the novel into a movie. It was to be considered a spiritual and thematic sequel […]

The South China Morning Post reported this weekend that Wong Kar Wai's Amazon TV series Tong Wars has been quietly cancelled. Amazon Studios originally announced Tong Wars in 2017. The series would have been about the Triad wars that tore through San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th Century. Wong planned to film the show […]

A special video introduction played, with Wong Kar-wai informing us that we were about to watch The Grandmaster Then Clare Stewart introduced Harvey Scissorhands Weinstein, who told us that we were about to watch a "kick ass" movie.What he didn't say was that we were going to watch a dumbed down, butchered and frankly dreadful[...]

Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster played in American cinemas in a different cut to the version that was originally released in Hong Kong and China A 108 minute cut was made specifically for America at the request of the Weinsteins but the original cut ran to almost 130 minutes.The film was not simply cut down though,[...]

The marketing is really ramping up for the American release of Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, or Martin Scorsese Presents The Grandmaster to give it its 'proper' title.It was also announced this week that Samuel L Jackson is also lending his name to the film Er.. So, Martin Scorsese And Samuel L Jackson Present The Grandmaster?It[...]

What do Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster and David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints have in common?They've been recut for release at the suggestion of Harvey Scissorhands Weinstein That and they both have tie-in comics that have just been put online to read for free.The Grandmaster comic is hosted by Vice - thanks to wongkarwai.net for pointing[...]

I understand the logic behind throwing a famous director's name in front of a film title in an attempt to sell it to a wider audience but it really does makes me wince every time I see it.Back when Wong Kar-wai's masterpiece Chungking Express was released on DVD in America the box was labeled "Quentin[...]

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[...]

Wong Kar-wai was involved in this new edit but everything I'm hearing about it sounds worrying.The film is set to be released in America on the 23rd of August but not before it has had its first U.S screening at Comic-Con on the 20th of July. Deadline say that Wong Kar-wai will also be there too to help[...]

So the new Wong Kar-Wai movie THE GRANDMASTER is an event A new Wong Kar-Wai movie is always an event I bought the Hong Kong Blu-Ray from my local Chinatown shop because I don’t trust The Weinstein Company, which has bought up the US rights, not to recut it to shit for its eventual Western[...]