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...nomination process is comparable to a police manual, with strange rules about the nationality of the creative talent, where the film was shot, and when and where it opened. Because the submission process is so labyrinthine, films like Almodovar’s Bad Education, Kar-Wai Wong’s 2046, Akin’s Head On, Marston’s Maria Full of Grace, Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagement, and Salles’s The Motorcycle Diaries didn’t even end up as possibilities due to a series of regulations...
What about Tony Leung and Wong Kar-Wai, the powerhouse art-film duo who between them have won eight Oscar equivalents in Hong Kong and two Cannes Film Festival awards? There’s also Jeon Ji-hyun, whose romantic comedies have set her up to be Korea’s next leading female actress. And Stephen Chow, Hong Kong’s answer to Ben Stiller, who writes unconventional and intelligent comedies. Apparently, we just aren’t ready to see Asian people in everyday life, when they’re not in period films depicting them recklessly...
...there's no Cannes, you can make 2046 for another year." Is it a circus or a love affair, whose ending he both dreads and prays for? As Chow says in the movie, "You can't leave 2046. You can only hope it leaves you." Filmmaking for Wong Kar-wai is like an addiction, benign but incurable...
...Jingwen reads a story Chow has written about her and finds the ending too sad. Could he please change it? We are happy to do that for Wong Kar-wai. He should realize that his unhappy ending is, for others, a beguiling beginning. His vanished beloved can now find a new suitor?millions of moviegoers, who will embrace the beautiful creature, who are ready to be put in the mood for love...
...Wong Kar-wai is Hong Kong's finest film auteur, the director of eight movies including the long-awaited 2046. He met with Time Asia's Bryan Walsh at the Moon Garden Tea House near his production company's offices in Hong Kong...