Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 August 2016
Friday, 5 August 2016
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Friday, 20 May 2016
Saturday, 14 May 2016
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Saturday, 16 January 2016
Saturday, 9 January 2016
Art of the Book - Wong Kar Wai & John Powers "WKW" (2015)
The long-awaited retrospective from the internationally renowned film director celebrated for his visually lush and atmospheric films. Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish films that explore - in saturated, cinematic scenes - themes of love, longing, and the burden of memory.
His style reveals a fascination with mood and texture, and a sense of place figures prominently. In this volume, the first on his entire body of work, Wong Kar Wai and writer John Powers explore Wong’s complete oeuvre in the locations of some of his most famous scenes.
The book is structured as six conversations between Powers and Wong (each in a different locale), including the restaurant where he shot In the Mood for Love and the snack bar where he shot Chungking Express.
Discussing each of Wong’s eleven films - from As Tears Go By and Days of Being Wild to 2046 and The Grandmaster - the conversations also explore Wong’s trademark themes of time, nostalgia, and beauty, and their roots in his personal life.
The first book by Wong Kar Wai, and the first comprehensive look at his oeuvre, this stunning, lavishly illustrated volume is as evocative as walking into one of Wong’s lush films. With more than 250 photographs and film stills and an opening critical essay by Powers, this volume is poised to become the film book of the year.
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Art of DVD - Men Kei Chin's "The Fruit Is Swelling" (1997)
A sort of "Big" but without Tom Hanks (a great thing!) and done in a crazy / kooky Hong Kong stylee (a great thing too!) All starring some uber-hot Chinese chicks! (a super duper thing!)
The film opens with Shu Qi on a beach in a bikini (a great start to a film that only gets better). She is the narrator who tells the tale of Peach, who longs to be over eighteen, so that she can find out exactly what it is that boys and girls get up to when they go out together. When Peach asks the Sacred Tree to make her all grown up, she wakes up the next day to find that her wish has come true. Peach is now a rather tasty woman, and she proceeds to try and find out what love and stuff are all about.
Friday, 6 November 2015
Friday, 23 October 2015
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Art of the Poster - Kar Wai & Antonioni & Soderbergh's "Eros" (2004)
With beautiful bijou films directed by acclaimed directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh and Kar Wai Wong, "Eros" is a wonderful and unique three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Friday, 16 October 2015
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Thursday, 6 August 2015
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