New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
WONG Kar-wai, the Hong Kong cult filmmaker famous for his lust for perfection, has taken a martial-arts thriller he released in 1994, tinkered around with this and that, and released it as "Ashes of Time Redux." It has an all-star Asian cast -...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A re-edit of Wong Kar-wai???s martial arts film doesn'??t make any more sense than it did the first time, but it sure is pretty.
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
ASHES OF TIME REDUX director Wong Kar-Wai, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and actress Brigitte Lin at the 46th New York Film Festival, October 4, 2008, answering questions from Scott Foundas and audience. Visit filmlinc.com for more from the New York Film Festival. Part One Part Two Part Three
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
On the eve of the unveiling of a breathtakingly restored new version of his little-seen martial arts epic "Ashes of Time," Hong Kong's most enigmatic and talented director, Wong Kar Wai, talks to Jeff Yang about the death and rebirth of Hong Kong cinema -...
WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia and that stare in Ashes of Time More than five years ago, I left the USA for what may well be the last time. Although I did have some great experiences there and made some very good friends there, have to say that I was happy to leave the country and do not find myself often wishing that I were (back) there. This past weekend, though... Ironically, it was because of something...
eugonline (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Wong Kar Wai's re-envisioned "Ashes of Time" is one of the most beautiful films I've seen in quite some time. As an example, watch the faces of the film's leads -- Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung -- which are often used like a scrim. Faint shadows from an adjacent spinning birdcage or the reflections of nearby running water...
Watch Online Hindi Movies (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Starring: Brigitte Lin ... Asia the Invincible (or 'Dong Fong But Bai') Eddy Ko ... Chin Shun Lau ... Warden of the Holy Altar Waise Lee Jean Wang ... Snow's Conqubine Joey Wang ... Snow Shi-Kwan Yen (as Yee Kwan Yan) Fennie Yuen King-Tan Yuen ... Madam Rongguang Yu ... Gu Cheong Fong Directors: Siu-Tung Ching Raymond Lee Watch Full Movie
Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
In 1994, six years before Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (followed by Yimou Zhang’s Hero) introduced contemporary Wuxia films to enthusiastic Western audiences, Wong Kar-wai’s art house martial-arts epic Ashes of Time, featuring Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, and the late Leslie Cheung, was met with mixed reviews and low box office receipts, [...]
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Cannes best actor winner Tony Leung Chiu-wai and longtime companion Carina Lau got married at a resort in the Himalayan nation Bhutan, Hong Kong media reported Tuesday.Hong Kong art-
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
The directors Wong Kar Wai in "Ashes of Time Redux" and Terence Davies in "Of Time and the City" use the past for inspiration. Raymond Depardon's "Modern Life" is a documentary on rural life and agriculture in France. Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah" traces the malignant extent of the Camorra in Naples.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Film Reviews: The temptation of artists to fiddle with their earlier works brings preditably mixed results in "Ashes of Time: Redux."
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
"National cinemas have different Golden Ages," writes Mary Corliss for Time. "For Hong Kong, it was the decade from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, when directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo were revitalizing the crime film, and when young...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
I'm currently working on my graduation paper, which is due in a week, so all of my updates will probably be in the form of Cannes updates or DVD announcements, just to let you know. I do have a couple of DVD announcements to make... so here goes: Strand will release two films in July: Lee Kang-sheng's Help Me Eros (which is quite good) on the 22nd and Ekachai Uekrongtham's Pleasure Factory , set in...
WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
This past December, I visited Taipei -- and Taiwan -- for the first time ever. Before going, I only knew of it through movies (1970s efforts starring Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia but also works by the likes of Hou Hsiao-Hsien , Edward Yang and Chen Kuo-Fu along with Johnnie To ( Turn Left, Turn Right ) and Wong Kar Wai (a small but memorable section of Happy Together ) and writings, both non-fictional...
WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
Movie advertising on the back of a bus, Hong Kong style! 1 -- The total number of 'new' (i.e., previously unseen by me) Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia movies viewed in 2007 (and for the record, it was Little Sister-In-Law , newly available on VCD, with English and Chinese subtitles, in 2007). (And for those who haven't realized it, Brigitte Lin is my favorite actress of all time!) 2 -- The number of films...
