Chungking Express
aka Chung Hing sam lam First screened in May 2000 / Most recently screened in November 2024
Director: Wong Kar-wai. Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Piggy Chan, Valerie Chow, Zhen Liang. Screenplay: Wong Kar-wai. In Brief:
Hour 1 dangles genre only to revamp it. Hour 2 a sunnier paean to boundary-smashing eccentricity. Invigorating.
VOR:⑤
Emblem of Hong Kong cinema's frisky, muscular mid-90s surge. Amazing feat of on-the-fly invention. Incalculably influential aroung the globe.
