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...

Fallen Angels

There is a moment in Paul Mazursky's fitfully remarkable An Unmarried Woman wherein the protagonist, Erica, speaks to a friend who suff...

Happy Together

You know you're in for a unique experience when a film opens with a splash of color before cutting suddenly to a stark, black-and-white ...

Chungking Express

In her essay for the Criterion release of Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express , Amy Taubin likens the Hong Kong director's opus to Jean...

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 ...