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| Wong
Kar-Wai |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Producer |
| 1958 - |
| Born in Shanghai, China |
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Production Country: Hong Kong |
| Key Genres:
Romantic Drama, Drama, Romance |
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Collaborators: Christopher
Doyle (Cinematographer), William Chang (Production
Designer/Editor), Tony Leung (Leading
Player), Maggie Cheung (Leading Player), Leslie Cheung (Leading Player), Jacky Cheung (Leading Character
Player), Carina Lau (Leading Character Player), Kit-Wai Kai (Editor), Frankie Chan (Composer), Brigitte Lin
(Leading Player) |
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Highly Recommended: In
the Mood for Love (2000) |
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Recommended:
Days of Being Wild (1990),
Happy Together (1997), 2046 (2004) |
| Links:
[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Senses
of Cinema Feature (2001) ] [ Wong Kar-Wai.net ] [
Asia Studios Interview ]
[
Wikipedia ]
[
Kinema Article ]
[
Brisbane Times Article (2007) ] [
Scotsman Article (2008) ] [
indieWIRE
Article (2008)
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| Books:
[
Wong Kar-Wai ] [
Wong Kar-Wai: Auteur of Time ] [
Wong Kar-Wai (Contemporary Film Directors) ] [
Wong Kar-Wai ] [
Wong Kar-Wai on Wong Kar-Wai ]
[
Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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Greatest Films: Chungking Express (1994),
Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood
for Love (2000) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
In
the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004) |
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"Wong’s avant-garde filmic
aesthetic is composed of elliptical storytelling through the use
of deeply drenched tones, slow motion, jump cuts and fragmented
images. Although the notion of auteur is not entirely
customary in Hong Kong where films are often shot quickly and
marketed via their accessibility as popular entertainment,
Wong’s status as auteur marks his position within Hong
Kong cinema’s industrial environment and signifies his complete
creative freedom and control of every facet of his films’
production." -
Elizabeth Wright (Senses of Cinema) |
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"While
a product of the fertile Hong Kong filmmaking community of the
'90s, writer/director Wong Kar-Wai did not traffic in the
over-the-top action blowouts favored by the likes of
John Woo and
Tsui Hark. Instead, his films took their inspiration from
the seminal work of Jean-Luc Godard
and the French New Wave, painting idiosyncratic and romantic
tales of the young and disenfranchised uniquely representative
of the myriad cultural influences which distinguish his native
land." -
Jason Ankeny, All-Movie Guide |
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"Few modern
directors display as much ambition and promise, and none is as
thrillingly alert to the enduring poignancy of the passing
moment or to the ever-fresh resonance of memory and unrequited
desire." - Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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"Usually I find that genre
conventions get in the way of dealing with certain areas of
character psychology, but one of my inspirations for 'Ashes [of
Time]' was 'The Searchers'--a film which suggests how you can
get inside an apparently opaque protagonist." -
Wong Kar-Wai |
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