In Sight and Sound magazine’s once-a-decade poll of the greatest movies of all time, Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express (1994) recently rocketed from 144 to 88 on the list. It should have been a moment ...
Life often feels like a monotonous cycle. Seligman well describes life as a series of repetitions. We eat and sleep and talk every day, and settle into the routine of it. It might feel like we are ...
Wong Kar-Wai’s Fallen Angels is a happily bifurcated film, not just in story, but sometimes within the same shot. Even when a violent bar fight erupts behind a character contemplating their life, they ...