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Your favourite WKW film?
posted by rudely_murraySTAFFMOD on August 18, 2019 at 10:45 AM
All of his films are beautiful to look at but Fallen Angels simply overwhelmed me visually, aurally and emotionally. A breathtaking film on so many levels - and Takeshi Kaneshiro's Ho Chi-Mo is such an endearing character!
Reply by tmdb53400018
on August 29, 2019 at 5:47 PM
Happy Together. It's about a couple of expatriates from Hong Kong living in Buenos Aires and their gay relationship. A visual feast, due to the director and his cinematographer Chris Doyle's technical repertoire.
Reply by bratface
on September 1, 2019 at 12:48 AM
Chungking Express
Ashes of Time Redux (2008)
In the Mood For Love
The Grandmaster
Fallen Angels (although it has been a while, I should give it a rewatch)
Reply by rudely_murray
on September 1, 2019 at 8:20 PM
Beautiful film -- which was, I seem to remember, the first of his films which I saw and I was instantly entranced by his magical eye for lighting and colour.
It's simply inexplainable that cinematographer Christopher Doyle has not received a single Oscar nomination for his work on Wong's films.
Reply by rudely_murray
on September 1, 2019 at 8:22 PM
Honestly, The Grandmaster is the only one of his films that I actively disliked. I saw the original Hong Kong cut - said to be by some way the superior version - but I found it choppily edited, with a feeling of being incomplete. It achieved the seemingly impossible task of making me bored watching the usually magnetic Tony Leung.
I have yet to see Ashes of Time - I really need to catch up with that one.
Reply by bratface
on September 1, 2019 at 9:26 PM
'The Grandmaster' wasn't the best 'Ip Man' film but it was because of Tony Leung & Zhang Ziyi that I enjoyed the film.
The original 'Ashes of Time' isn't available here in the West, so the version I have seen is called 'Ashes of Time Redux'. Since I haven't seen the original, I do not know how different it is, but it can be quite slow at times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes_of_Time#Background