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Living up to its title, Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express moves like a bullet train, deftly switching tracks between two stories about lonely cops—one infatuated with a beautiful drug smuggler and the other whose world is turned upside-down by a fast foo
Music inChungking Expressoffers one of the strongest reflections of the film’s central allegory on Hong Kong’s pre-handover uncertainty. This uncertainty extends across multiple spheres—political, social, existential. As the Hong Kong of 1994 grapples with an impending change in government,Chungki...
At UCLA last summer,Quentin Tarantinointroduced a screening of “Chungking Express” and confessed that while watching it on video, “I just started crying.” He cried not because the movie was sad, he said, but because “I’m just so happy to love a movie this much.” I didn’t have...