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Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘Days of Being Wild’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, SVOD 06/14/2022 Sean Axmaker

Hong Kong superstars Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, and Andy Lau play lost and disaffected young adults in the first woozy masterpiece from director Wong Kar-Wai

‘Chungking Express’ – love on the run on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, International Cinema, Romance, SVOD 05/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

A pair of lovelorn cops lose themselves in the color and sensual rhythms of Wong Kar-Wai’s delirious romantic comedy set in the bustle of a Hong Kong suburb before the 1995 return to China.

Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar-Wai's award-winning film

‘In the Mood for Love’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, International Cinema, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/24/2021 Sean Axmaker

There may be no more sensual director in the world than Hong Kong’s Wong Kar-Wai, and In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong, 2000) is one of his richest and most melancholy works, a shadow dance of would-be lovers sketched in suggestions and intimations. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai star as next door neighbors […]

Asano Tadanobu and Sinitta Boonyasak in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's 'Last Life in the Universe'

‘Last Life in the Universe’ on Fandor

!Featured, Fandor, International Cinema 09/06/2015 Sean Axmaker

In the enigmatic, hypnotic Last Life in the Universe (2004) from Thailand, Asano Tadanobu is a meek Japanese librarian in Bangkok who has fastidiously transformed his apartment into an oasis of calm and order. He plans to complete the transformation with his suicide, but fate (or merely conflicted self-preservation) keeps him alive when he kills […]