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...Chungking Express By the time Americans finally catch up with Hong Kong cinema--since the mid-'80s the world's most turbulent and entertaining--it may have been suffocated by the censorious new lords from the mainland. So Wong Kar-wai's kicky art movie about two cops on the night shift not only is as mod as tomorrow's couture, it also serves as a nostalgia trip through what has been Asia's freest colony. Here are a cool killer-drug queen (veteran stunner Brigitte Lin) and an indefatigable ingenue (pop pixie Faye Wang) exercising their wiles on lovelorn...
...Krauthammer's position, about 90% of those who wrote criticized--to put it mildly--his arguments, particularly his linking of gay marriages to polygamy and incest. "I have yet to read a credible study showing a homosexual relationship causes the same level of psychological trauma that incest does," wrote Kar-yee Wu, 24, a Hong Kong native and second-year medical student at Tufts University in Boston. "Also, I don't remember the last time someone was killed or beaten because he or she was polygamous. I do know that these things happen to homosexuals...
...WONG KAR-WAI IS THE world's finest unknown auteur. Unknown, that is, to U.S. audiences. In Asia and Europe the 37-year-old Hong Kong writer-director is either a box-office sensation or a cult hero. Now that Quentin Tarantino's distribution company is releasing Wong's cool-jazzy 1994 romantic comedy Chungking Express, we get to catch...
MOVIES . . . CHUNGKING EXPRESS: "Wong kar-wai is the world's finest unknown auteur," says Corliss. Largely ignored in America, the 38-year-old Hong Kong writer-director is either a box-office sensation or a cult hero in Asia and Europe. The U.S. release of his cool-jazzy 1994 romantic comedy 'Chungking Express' should change that. The plot: two stories set in a late-night, neon Hong Kong. Or, actually, the same story, told twice with cunning variations: a cop thinks he's in love with one woman, then finds he?s drawn to another, more mysterious one. "Chungking has enough...
After a week of violence, the thousands of kar sevaks, or Hindu holy workers, who destroyed the Muslim shrine in the belief that it covered the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama, have been driven off. Army and police units have restored a semblance of order after Muslim-Hindu rioting left more than 1,100 dead and 4,000 injured. The government has banned three Hindu and two Muslim organizations and arrested the leaders of the major opposition party...