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The Criterion Collection's latest release, Chuingking Express (Chung Hing Sam Lam, 1994), is the first film the label has released on Blu-Ray as well as DVD. Moreover, it's a film that has long deserved the Criterion treatment. Released under Miramax's label Rolling Thunder a few years ago, Chungking Express was lost among the slew of ostensible Asian genre films promoted by Quentin Tarantino. Little about the previous edition indicated that the film is actually one of the best romances of the last twenty years; indeed, Tarantino's face on the cover probably implied the exact opposite to everyone but the more savvy cinephiles.
What Chungking Express is is a brilliant, freewheeling experiment by Hong Kong autuer Wong Kar-Wai. His film is as crowded as Hong Kong itself, with an often hectic, tightly shot mise-en-scene that compresses as much into the frame as his narrative does into the film. But despite, or...
What Chungking Express is is a brilliant, freewheeling experiment by Hong Kong autuer Wong Kar-Wai. His film is as crowded as Hong Kong itself, with an often hectic, tightly shot mise-en-scene that compresses as much into the frame as his narrative does into the film. But despite, or...
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