Teaser Trailer for Wong Kar Wai Short Film (Actually a Booze Commercial) 'Déjà Vu' /FILM (blog) And now there is new footage from Wong Kar Wai, whose short film Déjà Vu is being unveiled at Cannes. The film is sponsored by Chivas Regal, and accordingly is essentially an ad for the company's whiskey. But there's a narrative here, a romance between ...
Summer screening China Daily The work of famed Hong Kong filmmaker, Wong Kar Wai, will be celebrated in June with free screenings of four of his films. All films are in Cantonese with English subtitles. Wong's Chungking Express (1994) comprises two different stories told in ...
The Intouchables A.V. Club New York by Sam Adams May 24, 2012 Detractors of, say, Wong Kar-wai sometimes theorize that his movies' swooning, romantic dialogue only plays well to Western audiences because it's delivered via subtitles; if not for the diluting effect of onscreen text, ...
New Wong Kar-Wai Short Film 'Dejavu' To Premiere At Cannes Indie Wire (blog) Looks like Wong Kar-Wai has something up his sleeve for everyone who has been patiently awaiting his next feature film "The Grandmasters." While it won't be making the Cannes Film Festival like many had hoped, with more shooting happening this month ...
"The Guillotines" to hit cinemas in December Xinhua The action thriller will go up against Wong Kar Wai's "The Grandmaster" and Jackie Chan's "CZ12" in an effort to gain a slice of the domestic market during the New Year period. The film tells of a covert group of assassins called The Guillotines that ...
EURO BEAT: France's Razzie Awards, Wong Kar-Wai at Cannes, Plus News on New ... Twitch And while there's plenty in the line up to make cinephiles drool, one notable omission was Wong Kar-Wai's probably-still-not-completed rendition of the legend of Ip Man, The Grandmasters. But it turns out Kar-Wai will still be showing a movie at Cannes ...
Dirty Beaches Salt Lake City Weekly Despite Badlands sharing its title with a 1973 Terrence Malick film, Hungtai is more of a fan of auteurs David Lynch and Wong Kar-wai. ?Most of [Kar-wai's] main characters are always someone in exile or some kind of weird displacement,? Hungtai says.
Noise Huffington Post (blog) In it I hear the sighs of the characters of Wong Kar-wai, the cries of the lovers of Pedro Almodovar, the shots of Quentin Tarantino, the laughter of Marcello Mastroiani, and closest to me, Michel Hazanavicius, who tells me: "Dear, I have a great idea.
Cannes Chatter: Kirsten Stewart's 'On the Road' Premieres, We Get Two New Clips Hollywood.com Movies rumored to be involved with the screening include The Impossible, a Naomi Watts/Ewan McGregor drama revolving around the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and legendary Chinese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai's martial arts epic The Grandmasters.
Mumbai Writer Wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize For Asia Bernama Anushka, who writes short stories exploring questions of identity and inheritance, said her influence includes Wong Kar Wai and Anna Akhmatova. Nigeria's Jekwu Anyaegbuna, Andrea Mullaney from the UK, Diana McCaulay from Jamaica and Emma Martin from ...
Happily stuck in solitary Bangkok Post After three follow-up albums, a role in a Wong Kar Wai film and countless collaborations, the American songstress has taken her music in a whole new direction. Little Broken Hearts, Jones' fifth studio record, focuses on heartbreak with help from ...
Photo Diary from Hong Kong: Asia's Largest Art Fair, ART HK Elle (blog) my little gang spent our last night in HK drinking at Cafe de Goldfinch, Wong Kar-Wai's famed movie setting, and giving each other tattoos at some random shop tucked away in an office building a few blocks away. A long and crazy night and fitting ...
Hong Kong's Pegasus to produce Ip Man 3D Screen International The project, which has an estimated budget of $36m, will again star Donnie Yen as the eponymous kung-fu master who trained Bruce Lee (and is also the subject of Wong Kar-wai's upcoming The Grandmasters). Wilson Yip, director of Ip Man and Ip Man 2, ...
David Lambert's Hors les murs (Beyond The Walls) takes home the Grand Golden ... DigitalJournal.com (press release) Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Wong Kar-wai, Jacques Audiard, Arnaud Desplechin, Gaspar Noé and François Ozon all started out at the Critics' Week. The International Critics' Week presents a very selective programming so that the films can get a ...
Anushka Jasraj Wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize Outlook Her influences include Wong Kar Wai and Anna Akhmatova and she is working on a novella based on an apocryphal story about Franz Kafka. Nigeria's Jekwu Anyaegbuna, Andrea Mullaney from the UK, Diana McCaulay from Jamaica and Emma Martin from New Zealand ...
Ashim Ahluwalia Screen International (blog) His combination of pop and auteur sensibilities will no doubt draw comparisons with other Asian filmmakers, such as Wong Kar Wai, to whom Ahluwalia feels much closer than Bollywood or India's ?parallel cinema?. It was partly for this reason that he ...
Our ten favorite movies that go Bang! Bang! (with video) IFC (blog) ... Arrow? and ?Face/Off? features Woo's muse, Chow Yun-Fat, as Inspector 'Tequila' Yuen, and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (not quite yet Wong Kar-wai's muse) as undercover cop Tony, taking on Johnny Wong (Anthony Wong), the leader of a Triad crime syndicate.