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Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wong Kar Wai is a director that I have wanted to see more films from. So far, my experience has been rather limited. Well, to be fair, my Wong Kar Wai experience has been essentially non-existent. Many years ago I watched Chung King Express , although I only watched part of it, so that doesn't really count. Why? I don't have a good answer for that, most likely it was a movie I was not ready to invest...
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heatherism (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
luv this, esp the background, blends so well with the objects i luv this, the contrast, the gal's expression and all, priceless ! this cat rawk so hard till my head could almost drop off this one reminds me of wong kar wai anne wintour and her bodyguard CDG's Tao collection can you still breathe ? i was out of breath at the end of the slideshow
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
It is one of the most polarizing films in the career of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai, and one of the most sought after thanks to the lack of a presentable DVD release anywhere in the world up until very recently. And so news that the notoriously revisionist director was returning to his sole martial arts picture, Ashes of Time , to re-edit and shape it into the form he says was his original intention...
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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, [...]
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openPR.com Newsfeed (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Mumbai, July 24, 2008: Palador Pictures Pvt. Ltd., the undisputed leader in the World Cinema category in India with close to a thousand World Cinema titles, has scored another ace in the recently ... read more
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Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Wong Kar-Wai reportedly designed Tony Leung and Carina Lau's wedding, administered by monks in Bhutan; a Chinese site expresses shock at a shot of Wong Kar-wai without his customary dark shades : "This is the first time that I have ever seen Wong Kar-wai without his trademark sunglasses. I never realized his face was so big; evidently the shades he wears occupy a good part of his face... [H]e looks...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Film News: Co. receives movie rights from Tartan Group -- Media Asia, the Hong Kong production and distribution outfit, has retrieved rights to movies including the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, from the collapsed distributor Tartan Group.
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Out 1 (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Here is a link to the premiere trailer of the highly anticipated Redux of Wong Kar Wai's Ashes of Time . I've heard a lot about this since its premiere at Cannes and can't wait to see this for the first time. The last Redux I remember seeing was of Apocalypse Now , which I was not a fan of (the redux, that is...the original is brilliant.) It may help that I'm not familiar with the original Ashes of...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Hong Kong actor TONY LEUNG has wed his long-term girlfriend CARINA LAU in a ceremony in Bhutan. The showbiz couple married in a Buddhist-inspired ceremony in the ...
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PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Hong Kong actor TONY LEUNG has wed his long-term girlfriend CARINA LAU in a ceremony in Bhutan. The showbiz couple married in a Buddhist-inspired ceremony in the Himalayan country on Sunday (20Jul08), according to local reports. Monks presided over the union and guests included director Wong Kar-Wai and members of the Bhutan royal family. The actors also chose [...]
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lancerlord (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Tony Leung marries Carina Lau in Bhutan : Tony Leung Chiu-wai and longtime companion Carina Lau got married at a resort in Bhutan. The wedding was confirmed by Hong Kong art-house director Wong Kar-wai's Jet Tone Films which also released several photos from Monday's ceremony. Tony Leung, 46, and Carina Lau, 42, have been together for 19 years. Tony Leung and Carina Lau at their wedding ceremony in...
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ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Video: Won Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights is a story about letting go. We have to let go of things we've relied on or been obsessed about for a long time. The story is somewhat autobiographical. Each of the characters represent a part of Wong Kar Wai's personal mindset at certain points in time.
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GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson Rating (out of 5): **** Can a foreign-born filmmaker come to Hollywood without selling out? When established international filmmakers make their English language debut, the general consensus decrees that they've succumbed to the siren call...
