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The ITMFG tiddle cup is brimful of incidental pleasures and outrages. In Wilson Yip?s ?Bio Zombie,? which shambles through an hour of slacker slapstick set in a Hong Kong mall (it could be called ?Chungking Excess?) before it gets to providing actual entertainment value with a half-hour of...
If the homecoming in Rabbit-Proof Fence feels real, it is partly because it has also been one for Doyle. Leaving his hometown of Sydney at 18 to join the merchant marine, the maverick Australian worked on a kibbutz in Israel and spruiked Chinese medicines in Thailand before falling in...
The heat was on. After two minor films, Wong Kar-wai knocked on Mok's door for the Chungking Express follow-up, Fallen Angels, in which she wore a wig and played Punkie, a semicrazed jilted girlfriend. That won Mok a best supporting actress award from the Hong Kong Film...
So, here goes, in no particular order: Nicole Kidman dancing to "Sweet Home Alabama" for an entranced Joaquim Phoenix (To Die For); Jack Black's band striking up "Let's Get It On" in High Fidelity; Wayne and Garth headbanging to "Bohemian Rhapsody;" Timothy Hutton et al singing "Sweet Caroline...
Whispers in doorways. Long, longing looks. Desire at war with propriety. This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition. In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) learn that their spouses are having...