Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'wongkarwai'
August 15, 2007
The Toronto International Film Festival have announced 73 films today, which is, er, a lot. Too many for us to even pretend to give them even coverage, so as usual we’re just going to pick and choose from today’s announcements, which are made of films from international filmmakers, and tell you about the ones that interest us personally. Gala Presentations gains Blood Brothers, the debut of director Alexi Tan. Produced by John Woo, it’s......
Continue Reading "TIFF 2007: Glory To The Filmmakers!"November 14, 2006
Happy 10th Birthday Reel Asian Film Festival. Yep next year you enter your preteens and we all know it's downhill from there until you hit 18 or so. But that's next year. This year you've done a great job organizing yet another festival. Starting the festival tomorrow night with the North American premiere of the new Patrick Tam film (pictured) Patrick Tam, the guy who probably taught Wong Kar Wai everything he knows. Asian American......
Continue Reading "Happy Birthday Reel Asian"August 12, 2005
- We've had too much of a popcorn summer - too much mugging Murray, and prattling Pitt and dervishy Depp. It's time for something slow, meandering and altogether beautiful. It's time we got to seeing the Wong Kar Wai epic we've been hearing about for years now. Thank goodness it has finally crawled into the theatre. 2046 takes us back to the world of Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) of In the Mood for Love.......
Continue Reading "Film Fridays: Languid Leung"November 26, 2004
Though this film sat on the shelf for nearly as long as a recently auctioned piece of holy toast, like the Mary-faced Wonder bread, Infernal Affairs looks as if it hasn't grown the slightest bit of mold. The Hong Kong thriller, which stars Andy Lau and Tony Leung, is a tightly-paced, tightly-written mole on mole story. In it, Lau and Leung (who wowed in Wong Kar Wai's dreamscape of a film, In the Mood for......
Continue Reading "Friday Flickage: Infernal Affairs Appeals"