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DVD007279

Days of Being Wild

Wong, Kar Wai

Criterion Collection, 2021

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.

Notes:

A collection featuring two versions of DAYS OF BEING WILD and other extras. Supplemental materials include: an interview with cinematographer Christopher Doyle; an interview with Maggie Cheung Man Yuk; trailer.

Titles

+ Days of Being Wild

Alternate Title:

Ahfei Zhenjuang

Director:

Wong, Kar Wai

Production Co:

In-Gear Film Production Co. Ltd.

Running Time:

Feature.   95 minutes

Sound:

sound - DTS-HD Master Audio

Color:

color

Country:

Hong Kong

Year:

1990

Language:

Cantonese language with English subtitls

Genre:

Drama

Notes:

The breakthrough sophomore feature by Wong Kar Wai represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style. The initial entry in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle that includes In the Mood for Love and 2046, this ravishing existential reverie is a dreamlike drift through the Hong Kong of the 1960s in which a band of wayward twentysomethings—including a disaffected playboy (Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing) searching for his birth mother, a lovelorn woman (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) hopelessly enamored with him, and a policeman (Andy Lau Tak Wah) caught in the middle of their turbulent relationship—pull together and push apart in a dance of frustrated desire. The director’s inaugural collaboration with both cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who lends the film its gorgeously gauzy, hallucinatory texture, and actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who appears briefly in a tantalizing teaser for a never-realized sequel, Days of Being Wild is an exhilarating first expression of Wong’s trademark themes of time, longing, dislocation, and the restless search for human connection.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Days of Being Wild [Alternate Version]

Director:

Wong, Kar Wai

Production Co:

In-Gear Film Production Co. Ltd.

Running Time:

Feature.   95 minutes

Sound:

sound - DTS-HD Master Audio

Color:

color

Country:

Hong Kong

Year:

1990

Language:

Cantonese language with English subtitls

Genre:

Drama

Notes:

The breakthrough sophomore feature by Wong Kar Wai represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style. The initial entry in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle that includes In the Mood for Love and 2046, this ravishing existential reverie is a dreamlike drift through the Hong Kong of the 1960s in which a band of wayward twentysomethings—including a disaffected playboy (Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing) searching for his birth mother, a lovelorn woman (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) hopelessly enamored with him, and a policeman (Andy Lau Tak Wah) caught in the middle of their turbulent relationship—pull together and push apart in a dance of frustrated desire. The director’s inaugural collaboration with both cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who lends the film its gorgeously gauzy, hallucinatory texture, and actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who appears briefly in a tantalizing teaser for a never-realized sequel, Days of Being Wild is an exhilarating first expression of Wong’s trademark themes of time, longing, dislocation, and the restless search for human connection. This alternate version, a digital transfer of a 35mm print, features an altered prologue sequence and different edits during the final scenes of the film.

Link to:

FII catalog |