this guy went to shit, jesus.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
what has Christopher Doyle been up to?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
I look at that run of films and think, "My god, that feels so long ago..."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
right?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
Doyle was on-camera extensively in Anthony Bourdain’s Hong Kong episode that just aired a week or so ago. Seemed like a pretty exasperating guy. Lots of talk about the WKW films.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
i went to a talk of his where he was showing clips and i had to leave because he was so boring and annoying.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
Actually I saw WKW talk once at the NYFF, and he was kind of annoying as well. Totally talked trash about Doyle, among other things.
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
So, um, he turns 60 today, apparently. A lot younger than I thought.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 10:59 (five years ago) link
yeah! been around for quite a while
I saw Days of Being Wild last week, and it was pretty great. Especially the start. Vintage Wong, the very moment he found his style.
― Ludo, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 11:02 (five years ago) link
It's kinda crazy that in the sixteen years from 88-04 he made As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Ashes of Time, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046. And in the fourteen years since then he has made My Blueberry Nights and The Grandmaster. Sigh.
Well, whatever he's doing I hope he is happy. He deserves it.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
It was a great run, no need to make more. Hb wkw!
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
Just saw As Tears Go By - a lot of standard crime drama content but I liked its stylishness and its homage to 70s crime films
― Dan S, Sunday, 12 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
ok but where's my Amazon series
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:48 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 18 August 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
not sure what to make of the first appearance of Tony Leung in Days of Being Wild being in a dank low-ceilinged room just at the end of the movie
― Dan S, Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
was Wong Kar-Wai was setting us up for In the Mood for Love a decade later
― Dan S, Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
-2nd was
― Dan S, Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
It's the same character, yeah
― Frederik B, Sunday, 26 August 2018 06:47 (five years ago) link
didn't hate but also didn't love the comedic aspects of Fallen Angels. it was beautiful though.
like so many auteur films, it's something to watch and ponder again at a later date
I do want to see Chungking Mansions
― Dan S, Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
^ thisThe slapstick of the mute guy is so out of tune with the criminal romance
― calstars, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
I have worked my way chronologically through Wong Kar-Wai’s films recently, and am up to In the Mood for Love, which again seems like just about the greatest film I’ve ever seen. Every aspect of it has such vibes. And for such a seemingly simple concept it has very dense storytelling. It’s like he had an 8 hour story to tell in 1 hour 39 minutes. I’ve seen this movie three times now, but it still feels like it has a lot more to reveal
― Dan S, Sunday, 7 October 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
The highlights of the movie for me this time were the string of scenes in the middle that included the exploratory conversation in the restaurant where Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung reveal what they know about the infidelities of their spouses, their tentative reenactment of the scenes of betrayal and rehearsal for a confrontation, their subsequent acknowledgement of their feelings and the surreal farewell during the rainstorm, and their missed connection in the hotel room just before he leaves for Singapore
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
there was also a lot of interesting echoing or presaging of various scenes and replaying of scenes with a different perspective
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
not to dismiss the cinematography, the costumes (so many different qipaos), and two really great performances I think, portrayals of isolation and the yearning for connection, internalized performances that are apotheoses of the actors’ on-screen personae and which are always the kind I remember the most
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
(love morbs' description of it "ppl in slow motion w/ same song under it")
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
I did like how there was sometimes extremely subtle and sometimes not so subtle slowing of the frames
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link
the music was beautiful: Zhou Xuan’s “Hua Yang De Nian Hua”, Nat King Cole’s ”Aquellos Ojos Verdes", "Te Quiero Dijiste", "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás”, and especially Shigeru Umebayashi’s “Yumeji's Theme”
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
loved the scene where they share two separate meals during their entrapment in his room overnight while his landlord and friends played an epic series of mahjong games. also the repeated foregrounding of the noodle container as a metaphor for desire, the clock as metaphor for constriction/estrangement/distance
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
"2046" was very complicated - three love stories plus a future fantasy, all told in fragments nonsequentially. I hated it the first time I saw it, but looking at it again a second time I thought it was pretty incredible
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 October 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
Making my way through Days of Being Wild and I think the most crushing scene is when the policeman is waiting by the phone booth waiting for the girl to call - then gives up and walks down the street and I was so sure the phone was going to ring just as he moves out of audible range
― calstars, Saturday, 20 October 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
that was a great scene
(My Blueberry Nights was not very good, but it was so nice to see Chan Marshall (Cat Power) in the film and to hear "The Greatest" in the soundtrack
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
I hated it the first time I saw it, but looking at it again a second time I thought it was pretty incredible― Dan S, Friday, October 19, 2018 5:19 PM (forty-seven minutes ago)
― Dan S, Friday, October 19, 2018 5:19 PM (forty-seven minutes ago)
pretty sure someone says something similar upthread (and has some advice for a 3rd rescreen).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
well I should definitely see it a third time. Can't think of a film I've had such different reactions to between viewings
though I still think In the Mood for Love is his masterpiece
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link
I'm not sure but was Wong Kar-Wai's mistake with My Blueberry Nights his trying to transpose his aesthetic to NY, Memphis, Las Vegas?
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 October 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
makes me wonder if that that film was just an exploration and if he still has a lot more to reveal to us
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 October 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
I kinda thought My Blueberry Nights was okay, it's just so much worse than anything else he has done. But I'm happy it exists.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 20 October 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
My Burberry Nights
― calstars, Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
My Blueberry Nights is a horrible enough title already.
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Monday, 22 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
Chungking Express is available for now on the new Criterion Channel streaming site if you sign up (free to cancel):
https://www.criterionchannel.com/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
this movie kicks so much ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Ly030AcwY
has any movie so densely imagined been so light on its feet?
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 February 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
And for such a seemingly simple concept it has very dense storytelling
this is almost every WKW movie-- there's just so much going on.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 February 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
like little worlds, really.
the moment the 2nd story in this film begins, with Tony Leung walking up the camera, is one of the great movie moments. fun fact: i used to hate "california dreamin" but it's hard to hate it after this movie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH-0GKvIrM
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 February 2019 03:50 (five years ago) link
also chef's salads are gross
this movie kicks so much asshas any movie so densely imagined been so light on its feet?
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 28 February 2019 07:03 (five years ago) link
someone should re-dub that scene where they hit the jukebox and, like, papa roach starts playing.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 February 2019 07:18 (five years ago) link
why was chef's salad handheld and wrapped in tinfoil
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
I never understood this
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
i love how wong is such a sensualist, and there's such an attention to food here, but so much of the food is (IMO) unaccountably gross. chef salad? fish and chips? sardines? pineapple? ok, pineapple is fine, but those cans are expired.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
something very inspiring about a film that's so rapturous over such mundane food.
imagine some american director getting all moony over a big mac.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link