Center Stage (Stanley Kwan, 1992)

[The following is my Blind Spots review for September] Using period-appropriate filming techniques for movies set in the 20th century is har...

Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)

[This is my May post for Blind Spots .] Irma Vep  is the third Olivier Assayas film I've seen, the other two being Summer Hours  and Car...

Ashes of Time Redux

Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time is a baffling, frustrating but utterly intoxicating film, a long-delayed project that displays its pieceme...

Days of Being Wild

Wong Kar-wai's first film, As Tears Go By , was a cookie-cutter crime drama that borrowed heavily from Scorsese's Mean Streets but ...

In the Mood For Love

True visual splendor is surprisingly rare in the new millennium. Oh, high-resolution digital cameras and video have progressed to the point ...