Wong Kar-wai at Cinema Akil: Eight films will be showing, including In the Mood for Love
The theatre in Alserkal Avenue will put on some of the director's most well-known works over a two-week period
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The theatre in Alserkal Avenue will put on some of the director's most well-known works over a two-week period
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In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai is inarguably one of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema. A filmmaker who never sees his work as complete, as well as one who openly admits to shooting full sequences of films that get thrown on the cutting room floor, Wong is the ideal candidate for a restoration because he won't hold his first completed project with nostalgic treasure. Starting this week, AFS Cinema's streaming platform AFS at Home presents redesigned, reedited, and revived versions of seven of his works, all in 4K, under the banner of World of Wong Kar-wai. Wong has never...
G. Allen Johnson December 9, 2020Updated: December 10, 2020, 12:28 pm Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung star in Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love” (2000). Photo: Janus Films The neon-drenched underworld of “As Tears Go By,” the 1988 Hong Kong noir that announced an exciting new visionary, is now even more seductively seedy. And the agony of unrequited love a tailor has for a high-end prostitute in “The Hand” suddenly has a foodie component. We haven’t had a new Wong Kar-wai film in seven years, since “The Grandmaster,” but fans can rejoice: He has spent the past...