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Wong Kar Wai interviews Tony Leung in this month's issue of Interview Magazine, with Rachel Weisz on the cover.

Haven't yet read it myself, but you bet your sweet booty I'll be picking it up on the way home from work today.

I promised an LJ friend of mine that I'll post my thoughts up on some recent art films that I've bought. Like minded users who have seen these films please do drop a note on the comments I've made. :D


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Minneapolis loves Wong Kar Wai. Regardless of how I usually recoil from Rob Nelson's and Terri Sutton's humorless and agenda-stuffed articles, the fact that they maintain unabashed enthusiasm for the director and choose to look past the pretty images into the heart of what Wong is really trying to do makes me happy.

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I love the way Wong Kar Wai uses the camera - the way it moves, the fantastic angles it catches. His use of smoke and rain adds a kind of dreamy effect to his works of romantic melancholia. Or melancholic romanticism. His is the best of the three segments on Eros. Entitled "The Hand", it's a story of a young tailor's apprentice who falls for a ( Read more... )

I got my copy of Eros from Hong Kong last week. The Hand is by far and away the best of the three, and the only one that can truly be called erotic. As usual, I was not let down by this fabulous director.

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