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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- In
- DVD007274
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Chungking Express
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Wong, Kar Wai
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Criterion Collection, 2021
- Title:
- Chungking Express
- Alternate Title:
- Chongqing Senlin
- Director:
- Kai, Wong Kar
- Production Co:
- Jet Tone Production
- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
102 minutes.
- Country:
- Hong Kong
- Year:
- 1994
- Publisher:
- Criterion Collection, 2021
- Language:
- Cantonese language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Romance, Drama, Comedy
- Notes:
- The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.
Supplemental materials include: deleted scenes; trailer; interview with cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |