Poster for Chungking Express Famous for its use of the Mamas & the Papas’ song “California Dreamin,’” Jesse Pasternack interprets how Chungking Express evokes the feeling of pop music. When I think of films about pop music, some familiar titles come to mind: A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Stop Making Sense (1984), That Thing You… Read more »
A train to a strange place in Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046 Contextualizing Wong Kar-Wai’s Love Trilogy, Chris Forrester explains how the films are in conversation with Hong Kong’s political atmosphere, the world-building that connects the films and their characters, and more. Few filmmakers have become so synonymous with a specific kind of lovelorn loneliness as Wong… Read more »
Still from Days of Being Wild Before his introduction to tonight’s screening of Wong Kar-Wai’s Days of Being Wild, IU Chancellor Michael A. McRobbie shares a preview of his remarks on the lush, woozy cinema of Wong and his acclaimed Love Trilogy. I am delighted to say a few words about the three films that… Read more »
Guest post by Chris Forrester. The unremitting power of memory has always been central to the films of Wong Kar-Wai — stories of lost love and deep yearning that hinge on their capacity to channel something specific and powerful about the way time renders the most fleeting encounters with love profound. And if there’s one… Read more »
“To those who remember fondly” — Wong Kar Wai From the short film: Huay Yang De Nian Hua Nostalgia feels inherent to period pieces. Filmmakers tend to try to capture different angles on this fleeting remembrance of the past. The angle could be autobiographical, in the way Spike Lee’s 1994 film Crooklyn, set in 1973, recalls… Read more »