While Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer in the city, New Yorkers have already been filling the city’s green spaces, celebrating the joy of being together.
Molière in the Park garnered praise for Zoom productions of “Tartuffe” and other plays. Putting on an outdoor show in Brooklyn has been another matter.
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Maggie Cheung in the Wong Kar-wai drama “In the Mood for Love.”Credit.Janus Films
While supervising new digital restorations of several of his films, the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai made certain adjustments, such as changing the aspect ratio the image dimensions of “Fallen Angels,” which now has a wider frame than it did when it was first shown in 1995.
Wong, whose movies often concern the impossibility of setting anything in stone, has said the altered format reflects his unrealized intentions from that time. Ever since the restorations began touring last fall, mostly virtually, cinephiles have debated the tweaks (though unless you know the films by heart, you’re unlikely to notice).