Mulholland Drive. Moreover, it was
In The Mood For Love that inspired MUBI founder Efe Cakarel to found his influential film streaming platform – after he found himself unable to watch the film in Tokyo in 2007.
There has never been a better time to embrace the film’s vibrant legacy. Rare footage cut from the final edit has just premiered in a retrospective documentary in Hong Kong. On May 31 in the UK, Criterion will release a career-spanning collection of seven restored films in the 4K box set
The World of Wong Kar-wai, also screening at the BFI in July. And with the director’s canon expanding as he lines up two new projects, the solipsistic romances and intoxicating characters of the Wong-verse have never felt more tantalising. In 2021,
Maggie Cheung (left) and Tony Leung at the Cannes Film Festival in the year 2000. Photo: AFP
Early in Maggie Cheung’s career as an actress – after placing second at Miss Hong Kong pageant in 1983 – she was cast in the TV show
Police Cadet ‘84.
Also starring in the series was actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, who had started acting since 1982.
According to a report on 8days.com, Leung – who was in his early 20s then – had little patience with the then 19-year-old Cheung who didn’t have much acting experience.
The report added that Leung allegedly told Cheung: “You don’t know how to act. Go home.’
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SYNOPSIS:
A wife, her husband, his sister and servant are visited by an old friend of the husband – a man who once was in love with his wife.
All those fleeting moments. The rampant thoughts of what could be, or what could’ve been. Considered one of the masterpieces of Chinese cinema, it is surprising that we don’t hear more of
Spring in a Small Town. Directed by Fei Mu,
Spring in a Small Town was released in 1948, before the communist overthrow of China. This meant it was supressed and Fei Mu fled Hong Kong, dying only two years later. But it resurfaced in the 1980’s, as the China Film Archive opened it’s doors and