Wong Kar-wai: Man with Black Glasses Photo from http://www.wallpaper.com/art/judges-profiles-wong-kar-wai/2014What’s behind the quarrel? 14 Mar 2012 Leave a comment by Kollin in 1990s, Wong Kar-wai Tags: 1990s, Happy Together, love and tolerance, Wong Kar-wai When Ho met Lai in...
there’s something decadent, terminal, and slightly suffocating about it. Production designer William Chang’s shabby-chic surrealism reaches apotheosis: peppermint-stripe sconces, op art wallpaper, lush velvet curtains, boas of thick gold tinsel, mirror upon mirror upon mirror, each of supernal...
This paper is interested in the cinematic apparatus’s potential to produce affect which defamiliarises the visible presence of star-bodies in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together (chunguang zhaxie, 1997), thus invoking non-normative and new modes of thinking about queer identification and representation...