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couture club.(Brief Article)
Byline: John Powers
There may be no more elegant 40 minutes of moviemaking this year than Wong Kar Wai's "The Hand," the opening episode of the new three-part film Eros. (The other segments are by Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni.) Set in sixties Hong Kong, it's a fable about a handsome young tailor's apprentice (Crouching Tiger's Chang Chen) called in to do a fitting at the home of a famous courtesan, played by the great Gong Li. Sensing his desire for her, she orders him to take off his trousers and begins to touch him between his legs. "Remember this feeling," she purrs, "and you'll make me beautiful clothes." He does as he's told, and the rest of the film charts the radically different fates of a man and a woman united by their hands-her hands on his body inciting his desire, his hands ...
- Blur as genre. (Wong Kar-Wai's film 'Chungking Express')
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Hampton, Howard March 1, 1996 700+ words
...s the mood of Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express, the 1994 Hong Kong movie-cum...synthesis of art cinema and MTV, Chungking Express has a deadpan cosmopolitan energy...misplaced) souls adrift through Chungking Express listen to their interior monologues...
- `CHUNGKING EXPRESS' MAKES HEARTBREAK CHARMING.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Movie review)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 17, 1996 700+ words
...never felt so good as it does in ``Chungking Express,'' a delightfully stylized set...more elaborate ways to connect. ``Chungking Express'' is actually two movies, with...But nothing in the world of ``Chungking Express'' ever expresses closure, and...
- Chungking Express.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Klawans, Stuart March 4, 1996 700+ words
...blink, others bask in its glow. In Chungking Express, the outrageously talented Wong...Lin) takes up the first half of Chungking Express. In the second half, the point...themselves, these two stories in Chungking Express almost come together but don't...
- `CHUNGKING EXPRESS': A DATE WITH DELIRIUM
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Hal Hinson March 15, 1996 700+ words
"Chungking Express," the latest from Hong Kong...sorcery epic "Ashes of Time," "Chungking Express" is a flaky combination of charm...unabashedly on its sleeve, "Chungking Express" has no heart, no center. The...
- `Chungking Express' an Acquired Taste, Except for Film Fan
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert March 15, 1996 700+ words
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) First...Tarantino introduced a screening of "Chungking Express" and confessed that while watching...think about what Wong is doing, "Chungking Express" works. If you're trying to...
- Only the lonely -- Chungking Express directed by Wong Kar-Wai
- Magazine article from: The Village Voice Brown, Georgia March 12, 1996 700+ words
...Quentin Tarantino has selected Wong's Chungking Express for distribution under his Rolling...sponsorship to get this work released. Chungking Express--which played in the New York...a mock bow to choice number one, Chungking Express--which Wong conceived, shot...
- A Review of `Chungking Express'
- Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR) April 6, 1996 700+ words
...Kong director Won Kar-Wai, titled Chungking Express . American director Quentin Tarantino...and even a shooting or two, but Chungking Express, by the Hong Kong director Wong...to fall in love. [excerpt from `Chungking Express'] SCOTT SIMON: Perhaps I should...
- ... Simply because you're near me: Love, Chungking Express and In the Mood for...
- Magazine article from: CineAction Miller, Blair June 22, 2003 700+ words
...if one knows where to look. In Chungking Express (1994) there are quick glimpses...bathtub with his necktie. In both Chungking Express and another of Wong's masterpieces...blur of the modern world? In both Chungking Express and In the Mood For Love it is as...
