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Synopsis
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.
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Wong Kar Wai is a renowned Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker and was the first Chinese director to win the Best Director Award of Cannes Film Festival (for Happy Together in 1997). Wong was the President of the Jury at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, making him the only Chinese person to preside over the jury at Cannes. Wong was listed at number three on the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times. In 2006, he accepted the National Order of the Legion of Honour: Knight (Highest Degree) from the French Government. In 2013, Wong accepted Order of Arts and Letters: Commander (Highest Degree) by the French Minister of Culture and won the Asian Film Award for Best Director for The Grandmaster. Wong owns the independent production company Jet Tone Films.
John Powers is a writer and film critic. Powers covers film and politics for Vogue and Vogue.com and is the pop culture and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He previously served for six years as the film critic. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Harper's BAZAAR, The Nation, Gourmet, The Washington Post, The New York Times and L.A. Weekly, where he spent twelve years as a critic and columnist.
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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
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