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"One of the most popular sex scenes of all time is the kitchen scene from the 1981 version of The Postman Always Rings Twice. But many people find the more implicit parts of the 1946 version to be sexier. These people include the earlier film’s female lead, Lana Turner, who wrote in her autobiography, “[The makers of the 1981 film] didn’t have to worry about the censors. I’d had to project a rather intense sexual presence, but always with my clothes on. I was amused to read that [NY Times film critic] Vincent Canby considered the remake a pale, rather sexless imitation of my version.” Yes, a film with neither nudity nor simulated lovemaking can be quite sexy, likely sexier than an explicit remake, for innuendo and other teasing maneuvers around either the Hays Code or the MPAA ratings board’s restrictions are far more tantalizing than any bare and balls-out displays of graphic sex common in movies today. Though many cl "
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"I loved this film. The pairing of the very related stories is fresh, hip and alive in a way completely foreign to me. What little I know of Godard and the New Wave was in presentation here, I think. Ironically, my parents lived in Hong Kong when this film was made and I spent a good amount of time there myself. The film really captures the incredible energy of the place. The movie is very sexy and so are the female leads, especially Faye Wong, playing “Faye” in the second of the two stories. She is delightful and I won’t soon forget her jamming to The Mamas and the Papas.As for Wong Kar-Wai? This was also my introduction to his work. I know very little of the guy but this film is certainly ripe with Americana. Has he lived here? There is an odd little food fetish theme that runs throughout that is really sweet and familiar. Basically, this is a wonderfully sweet film in its narrative. The handheld camera work was executed to perfection, as were the ju ... "
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"The Midnight Express snack stand from Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express has been turned into a 7-11. Wouldn’t it be amazing if they did a promotion with that film the way they turned US stores into Kwik-e-Marts for The Simpsons Movie? Beautiful Losers producer Jared Moshe links to images of the 22 Nike Dunk Hi models produced in connection with the doc’s release. The Spongebob angle makes
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"The Midnight Express snack stand from Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express has been turned into a 7-11. Wouldn’t it be amazing if they did a promotion with that film the way they turned US stores into Kwik-e-Marts for The Simpsons Movie? Beautiful Losers producer Jared Moshe links to images of the 22 Nike Dunk Hi models produced in connection with the doc’s release. The Spongebob angle makes
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Wong Kar-Wai I still love you.
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"About 13 or 14 years ago I fell in love with Wong Kar-Wai and foreign film when I saw Chungking Express. my blueberry nights had me reminiscing and remember why I love this director even more than many of his intervening films have over the past decade. Although I could have done without the closing line in the film (I really though the visual spoke for itself), my blueberry nights is a worthy english language addition to Wong's already phenomenal repertoire. I even watched with the subtitles on, and felt like I was a teenager again, beginning to truly recognize the beauty of film. "
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"It took me awhile, but last week I finally saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And to agree with many others, I think it features a few too many ludicrous moments. Yet the most outlandish, in my opinion, is the scene in which Indy and Marion seem to reenact His Girl Friday in about four seconds while riding in the back of a truck. I know it’d been awhile, both for them and for us, but I prefer a little more bickering, a little more holding back in comedy of remarriage plots. Anyway, we knew a long time ago, thanks to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, that Indy and Marion didn’t last long together after the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. So, I didn’t really care if they ended up together at the end of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, either. It’s probable they still wouldn’t last. And I think the same often with other unlikely movie couples at the end of their respective films. Fortunately, a number of sequels tell us outright that the romance of the first film f ... "
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"Neon bright colors whirl in this state of conscious confusion; Chungking Express travels the rollercoaster of love with and atmosphere of dreamlike euphoria and a plot of dreary confusions all in an expression of love. Relationships are universally confusing, but a life untouched by even the most somber moments of love shouts of greater depression. Chungking Express searches for love and ends up wound in love's confusing grip. Love takes the film out of control, and carries the euphoria to new grounds of sedation. People say that the movie is about two different characters who are loosely related; but (and not only because this is what Edwin and I originally thought, which might mean we are a bit slow), even though the actors switch, Chungking Express could be the story of one man, first shown in his youth, then shown as an older man. And I like this blurred reality better, for it adds to the themes of the film. I did realize that the actors switch halfway through the film with no ... "
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"A lot of people really like Chungking Express, and I can see why- the movie has a real energy to it that's exhilarating. It has often been compared to a French New Wave film, and it's director Wong Kar-Wai often likened to a Hong Kong Goddard. Although this movie has the youthful exuberance of a Goddard film, I don't think that it's as intelligent or as emotionally compelling as the Frenchman's work. The movie is set in a fast food restaurant frequently visited by cops, located in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The film follows two of the law enforcement agents as they have romantic problems. The first, the slightly awkward and naive He Quiwu (Takeshi Kaneshio), has just been dumped by his girlfriend and develops a crush on a woman in an obvious blond wig (Brigette Lin) who is part of the underground. The second (and far more successful) segment involves a cynical officer known only as #663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) who is the subject of an obsessive crush from Faye (Faye Wong) e ... "
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"One reason I appreciate having Fallen Angels in our home library is that it adds another layer to Wong Kar Wai's explorations of Hong Kong.A deep seated premise of Wong's Hong Kong films is what geographer Doreen Massey calls the "throwntogetherness" of place. What this means is that the importance of place to daily life lies in how it causes us to be "thrown together" with others. Different places throw people (and things) together in different ways. Some people (and things) with whom we are thrown together we expect and want, but there are also those relationships we don't control or desire. Nonetheless, we have to find ways to live with all of the myriad others with whom we share a place. Every character in each of Wong's Hong Kong films is an "other" to someone else, and the intensity of the city's urban density means that characters are in constant negotiation with others over what kinds of relationships they are going to have with different people. This sense of throwntogethe ... "
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