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As Tears Go By (1988) © Courtesy of Janus Films Wong’s debut feature is his most generic, an 80s Hong Kong crime film cut from the template established by directors such as Ringo Lam and John Woo. But his signature touches shine through in the doomed love story between Ah Ngor (Maggie Cheung) and Wah (Andy Lau), particularly in a moment involving the film’s biggest needle drop. That would be Sandy Lam’s Cantopop cover of Giorgio Moroder and Berlin’s original song for Top Gun (1986), ‘Take My Breath Away’. Wong wrings genuine emotion out of the overwrought ball...

JOHN DOYLE'S GAMBLE WITH MILLIONS: HEADS HE WINGS-TAILS YOU LOSE FUGIUVE YOU Walter Stewart BEFORE I MET John Christopher Doyle, the controversial mining promoter and close friend of Newfoundland Premier Joseph Smallwood, I thought of financial wizards as rather dull types, surrounded by computers and walnut-paneled boardrooms and lynx-eyed assistants and fussy accountants; stodgy people, really, for all their wealth, who lived in a world of ticker tape and dividends and stock warrants and other inscrutable phenomena. But all that, as I say, was before I met John Doyle, before I perched in th...

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Prepare for sensory overload: tomorrow the BFI delivers an online retrospective of the films of Wong Kar-Wai, who has supervised new 4K versions of five of the films on offer (bfi.org.uk). Born in

In the mood for loneliness and longing: How Wong Kar Wai depicts emotion Cinema’s poet of solitude, heartbreak and desire, Wong Kar Wai makes films that enchant the senses. As a new season of his work launches online, Ann Lee explores a cinematic world of intense feeling. 2 February 2021 In the Mood for Love (2000) Watching a Wong Kar Wai film means entering a world of heightened emotions. It’s not just that they tell unforgettable stories of ill-fated romance, but it’s the masterful way the Hong Kong auteur draws you in ever so tantalisingly. Dreamlike textures, vivid colours ...