Posts Tagged ‘Wong Kar Wai’
Film Review – My Policeman
There is one glaring omission with My Policeman (2022), and it is passion. Forbidden love, social conventions, guilt, and forgiveness are all key ingredients for a romantic drama. While those elements are certainly here, the final product is undercooked. This is a stuffy affair. Its languid approach…
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An Appreciation – Chungking Express
There are few filmmakers who can capture the feeling of longing the way Wong Kar Wai does. Throughout his career, WKW has consistently revisited the ways in which people come together or fall apart. His characters are constantly moving, interacting or separating, or barely missing…
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Film Review – Submergence
Melodrama, when done well, draws our empathies so effectively that seeing the lives of characters play out is as suspenseful as an action film. Of all the genres in cinema, melodrama – often dealing with the ups and downs of romance – is so closely…
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SIFF Film Review – The Final Master
In writer/director Haofeng Xu’s The Final Master (2015), a Wing Chun practitioner (Fan Liao) attempts to open a school in the city of Tianjin. The master wants to preserve the martial art for future generations, as was the dying wish of his master. However, due…
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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An Appreciation – Lost in Translation
The beauty of life is that it is not made up of plots. We don’t go through our daily routines in three act structures where our actions slowly build up to a climactic peak. Most times, we move within our own bubbles not knowing where…
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Top 15 Films of 2013 – Allen’s Picks
Why 15? Because 10 just ain’t enough. That’s how good 2013 has been. Granted, every year can be considered a good year, since great movies come out all the time. But this year has proven to be a standout, as one release after another has…
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Film Review – The Grandmaster
Wong Kar Wai (WKW) likes to take his time. For his latest film, The Grandmaster, some reports state the project was announced almost ten years ago. Others claim it took nearly five years to be completed, including one entire year just for editing. This is…
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