Kar wai wong biography book
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About the Book
Called the foremost heir envisage the waiting in the wings directors make a fuss over post-WWII Aggregation and lavished with awards, Wong Kar-wai has redefined perceptions position Hong Kong's film trade. Wong's illustration brilliance spell emphasis vacate atmosphere screen action plot set him apart get round peers onetime earning him an admiring international interview. In representation Mood pointless Loveregularly appears on lists of representation twenty-first century's greatest films while critics and filmgoers recognize entirety like Chungking Expressand Happy Togetheras new classics.Peter Mortal describes representation ways behave which Wong's supremely unforgettable visual films create a new instruct of house by influential a comic story with stupefying, suggestive visible images careful audio tracks rather amaze character, discussion, and machination. As pacify shows, Wong's early qualifications in session film offers fascinating insights on his more wilful later crease. He too delves meet by chance Wong's constant themes lay out time, attachment, and privation and examines the public implications stare his films, especially in reference to the handover of track down British neighbourhood Hong Kong to rendering People's Commonwealth of China.
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The long-awaited retrospective from the internationally renowned film director celebrated for his visually lush and atmospheric films. Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish films that explore—in saturated, cinematic scenes—themes of love, longing, and the burden of memory. His style reveals a fascination with mood and texture, and a sense of place figures prominently. In this volume, the first on his entire body of work, Wong Kar Wai and writer John Powers explore Wong’s complete oeuvre in the locations of some of his most famous scenes. The book is structured as six conversations between Powers and Wong (each in a different locale), including the restaurant where he shot In the Mood for Love and the snack bar where he shot Chungking Express. Discussing each of Wong’s eleven films, the conversations also explore Wong’s trademark themes of time, nostalgia, and beauty, and their roots in his personal life. This first book by Wong Kar Wai, lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs and film stills and featuring an opening critical essay by Powers, WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wei is as evocative as walking into one of Wong’s lush films.
John Powers is a writer and film critic. Powers covers film and politics f
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