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After watching Fallen Angels (another film made by the same director) my film teacher showed me the first 20 minutes of Chungking Express. When I start a movie I have to finish it, especially if it is on one of my streaming services. I love this film from the experimental editing, music selection, the characters, and the cool vibe that Wong Kar-wai brings into his films. I cannot stress how awesome the music and visuals are in this film. Hearing atmospheric trumpets while the rain is pouring with this vibrant blue hue is just so awesome.
Mar 27, 2025
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in a Wong Kar Wai rabbit hole and loving how scrappy his early films are! they’re almost all handheld, most scenes are with just 1 or 2 actors, beautiful colors, zippy and strangely uplifting, and really captured Hong Kong in the 90s in a way that almost feels like a documentary. It’s also inspiring to see early works of prolific directors to see how good (and sometimes better) they could be in their younger years when they were working on shoestring budgets.
Apr 9, 2024
Wong Kar-wai is a Hong Kong filmmaker and most of his movies are beautiful romances. He makes movies about flashing city lights and Cantonese people smoking cigarettes and somehow makes you feel like romance is the only thing in the whole world. My favorite of his is Chungking Express (1994) about two policemen in Hong Kong with parallel romances: one with a mysterious criminal, the other with a mysterious waitress.
Another great one, and his most widely acclaimed film, is In The Mood For Love (2000) about two neighbors in 1960s Hong Kong who suspect that their spouses are cheating on them with each other’s spouse, so they set out to explore how this romance could’ve began, and come to fall in love themselves.
Another one that is more dark and seedy is Fallen Angels (1995) where a hitman tries to escape his career and navigate his relationship with his underworld employer who is secretly in love with him.
Mar 12, 2025
Three years ago i had a breakup on the first day of April, and i saw a post had this screenshot from the film. This how i got to watch it!
• Still my favourite “stumbling on a film”
Apr 1, 2024
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I’m not going to go into detail of the story of the film because I think it is better to watch when you don’t know the plot of the movie. This film always makes me teary-eyed when I watch it. It is an amazing melodrama made by the legendary Akira Kurosawa. It is one of the most genuinely moving films ever made in my opinion. Great acting as well!
Mar 27, 2025
Such an important documentary film, and I’m glad that my local Lyric Theater showed this film. It was devastating but I hope more people watch this film. Thank you to the people who worked on this film. I’m so glad this film won an Oscar! The work done in this film is great and I would love to applaud every single one of these people that made this movie.
Mar 27, 2025
I thought it said Music Fashion and not Masc Fashion. Apologies, I have no idea if any of these fit. Good luck tho, hope it goes well.
Apr 13, 2025