World of Wong Kar Wai

All films available in Virtual Cinema | Fri-Thu, Dec 11-Jan 7

With his lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism, Wong Kar Wai has established himself as one of the defining auteurs of contemporary cinema. Joined by key collaborators such as cinematographer Christopher Doyle, editor and production and costume designer William Chang, and actors Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, Wong (or WKW, as he is often known) has enraptured audiences and critics worldwide and inspired countless other filmmakers with his movies’ poetic moods, narrative and stylistic daring, and potent themes of alienation and memory. Whether tragically romantic, soaked in blood, or quirkily comedic, the films in this retrospective are an invitation into the unique and wistful world of a deeply influential artist.

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Past Screenings

Virtual: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

Streaming Fri-Thu, Dec 11-Jan 7

Virtual: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

A milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, this masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema.

Virtual: AS TEARS GO BY

Streaming Fri-Thu, Dec 11-Jan 7

Virtual: AS TEARS GO BY

Set amidst Hong Kong’s ruthless, neon-lit gangland underworld, Wong Kar Wai’s operatic debut stars Andy Lau as a small-time mob enforcer who finds himself torn between a burgeoning romance and his loyalty to his loose cannon partner in crime.

Virtual: DAYS OF BEING WILD

Streaming Fri-Thu, Dec 11-Jan 7

Virtual: DAYS OF BEING WILD

The director’s inaugural collaboration with both cinematographer Christopher Doyle and actor Tony Leung is a ravishing drift through a bygone Hong Kong of the 1960s in which a band of wayward 20-somethings pull together and push apart in a cycle of frustrated desire.

Virtual: CHUNGKING EXPRESS

Streaming Fri-Thu, Dec 11-Jan 7

Virtual: CHUNGKING EXPRESS

Two heartsick Hong Kong cops, both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. One of the defining works of ‘90s cinema.

Virtual: FALLEN ANGELS

Streaming Fri-Thu, Dec 11-Jan 7

Virtual: FALLEN ANGELS

Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy, this hyper-cool head rush charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hitman looking to go straight and a mute delinquent who wreaks mischief by night.

Virtual: HAPPY TOGETHER

Streaming Fri-Thu, Dec 11-Jan 7

Virtual: HAPPY TOGETHER

One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and jealousy.

Virtual: THE HAND (Extended Cut)

Streaming Fri-Thu, Dec 11-Jan 7

Virtual: THE HAND (Extended Cut)

Originally conceived for the omnibus film EROS, THE HAND — presented in this retrospective for the first time in its extended cut — tells the tale of a shy tailor’s assistant enraptured by a mysterious client.

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