Wong Kar-wai

...calm and wild expressiveness, centered in his pixieish eyes, serves equally well whether he is playing the tortured aesthete for Wong Kar-wai, the murderous bureaucrat for Ang Lee or the action hero for Woo. Not even body armor and an...

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...film at the Venice Film Festival in 2006. French filmmaker Claire Denis's Beau Travail took fourth place with 46 votes. And Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love rounded out the top five with 43 votes. Subscribe to this...

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...winner "Still Life" and its 48 votes. French filmmaker Claire Denis earned fourth place for "Beau Travail" with 46 votes, followed by Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" with 43 votes. Weerasethakul also earned sixth place for "Tropical...

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...to do what I feel. Capone: If you are doing a love story, Tony Leung is an expert in some of those love stories… He's done a few with Wong Kar Wai, so he'd be a good choice. Capone: Sure. JW: He's got a similar smile and that elegant...

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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 4:30pm Norah Jones is not really an actress. Yes, she was in that Wong Kar Wai movie My Blueberry Nights, but her career path does not exactly fit itself into Hulu's wheelhouse. And yet today was her...

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...lists, of course, are fun to read as a starting place for our own versions. Best films of the decade? I'd add, off the top of my head, Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love"; Pedro Almodovar's "Volver" (though Scott picked "Talk to Her," which...

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...itself up in the past decade with the addition of more than 200 security cameras and an increased police presence. Thanks in part to Wong Kar-wai's popular 1994 film Chungking Express, the site draws a regular flow of tourists to its...

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...Theatre, 805 E. Pine St., Seattle; $7-$9.50 (206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com). Meanwhile at "Metro Classics," Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong-set "Chungking Express" (1994), about cops snarled in love complications, will be projected...

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...end, the entire crowd was clapping in time with each stroke, and it felt almost sweet. Do you believe in orgasms, boys and girls? 9. Wong Kar-Wai's "The Hand" from Eros (2005) Although this sex-themed trilogy was conceived as an homage to...

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...Complaint." They all fancy Aryan blondes. PREVIOUSLY: WHY HOLLYWOOD JEWISH GUYS FALL IN LOVE WITH SHIKSAS Photo of Rachel Weisz in Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" by Macall Polay / The Weinstein Co. If you are under 13 years of age...

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