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Ashes of Time Redux Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Wong Kar-wai, Country: Hong Kong, Release: 2008, Runtime: 93 “An insanely beautiful swirl of Fauvist colors and glorious faces...the redone film seems even more abstract and even more of a triumph.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times “An epic movie!” – Mina Hochberg, amNewYork "Think the Hong Kong auteur's pomo slice-'em up was elliptical and Day-Glo before? You ain't seen nothing yet!" - David Fear, Time Out New York “Not just an aesthetic foray into the venerable martial arts genre...The filmmaker’s signature lush visual style has received an extensive state-of-the-art makeover.” – Bruce Bennett, New York Sun Wong Kar-wai has restored, rescored, expanded and re-edited his legendary 1994 exercise in swordplay pyrotechnics and melancholy temps perdu. He’s also digitally colorized the film, rendering master cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s images even more insanely gorgeous. Ashes of Time is a movie of slow-motion action sequences and ecstatic poses. Wong treats a well-known wuxia (martial arts) tale of medieval warriors and the women who can’t forget them as a delicate succession of privileged moments. As avant-garde as it is pop, evoking the delirious aestheticism of Once Upon a Time in the West as well as the cool formalism of Last Year at Marienbad, Wong’s time-tripper is a movie to swoon for. And the cast is stellar. Among the beautiful losers: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Brigitte Lin and the late Leslie Cheung. A Sony Pictures Classics release. Preceded by Dust: An unsettling look at a future growth industry. Baker Smith, USA, 2008; 7m. Wong Kar-wai b. 1956, Shanghai, China 2007 To Each His Cinema (segment: I Traveled 9,000 km To Give It To You) 2007 My Blueberry Nights 2004 Eros (segment: The Hand) 2004 2046 2000 In the Mood for Love NYFF 1997 Happy Together NYFF 1995 Fallen Angels NYFF 1994 Ashes of Time 1994 Chungking Express NYFF 1990 Days of Being Wild ND/NF 1988 As Tears Go By

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