Watch Chungking Express, it's from the same director.

Do memories come with expiration dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries. Yes, that was my High School yearbook quote!

Is it similar to in mood for Love?

@@ayush9791 i think the style is very similar in some ways but thematically they are different

i remember at the time it came out so much was made about her 23 dresses or whatever the number had been, subtle but impactful wardrobe

slight correction as to that 'trilogy' - the first one, Days of Being Wild, is starring Leslie Chung not Tony Leung, and the 3rd one, 2046, is quite possibly *the* most self-reflexive or 'meta' film a director has ever made with regards to their own work and is also a direct sequel to in the mood for love (tony leung is the same character) so 'independent' it is not, it depends very heavily on the director's other films (so I wouldn't recommend it to someone who hasn't seen them)

Glad you're better now.

I was thinking of this when he made the comment about the shot inwhich we see em through bars, reminded me of a BTS video with Christopher Doyle talking about how they were looking at the location trying to figure out the most interesting way to shoot it.

That’s actually truly inspiring.

We all love Wong Ka Wai except his producer.

WKW is the god of loneliness and longing 😁

I was just going to bring that video up. It's really hard not to notice the frame within a frame in almost every scene. This is one of the most gorgeous films I've ever watched, I was just entranced by it the entire time.

You’d have lots of references! Hopefully I dove into it enough in this video!

@@JamesVSCinema you did! I’m so proud. Especially the intimate framing comment, another film analyst on youtube mentioned how sometimes (if not most) throughout the film you feel like you’re “watching them” like you’re one of their neighbours. Like you know there’s dishonesty from their partners so u gossip as u see them from behind or from a corner. It’s so cool

All the leaves are brown 😏

don't know kim ki duk well, but i saw Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring when i was a child (must have been 13 or 14 or so...?) and i loved it, i saw it so many times.

@@turtleandbear1179 oh, yes, love that one...the settings, the peace, like nothing is happening but everything is. You should watch 3-Iron, probably my favourite one.

@@susannariera mine as well, though the entire idea of exploring non verbal story telling is intriguing. its amazing to think back at the end of the film and realize how long it took for a character to speak when considering the the size of cast

Beautiful style! Definitely excited to see more from his work!

@@JamesVSCinema I think you would absolutely love The Grandmaster. Chunking Express is another great one. You can’t go wrong with him though 😁.

Yes, this movie was scripted as "2046" but it was just getting to be "too much" and the investors were wanting payback soon - so 2046 was broken off.

Chungking Express is one of my favorites.

A Brighter Summer Day is one of my favorite films of all time, also a good one

@@meadow9441 This is a bit of a provocative question. I don't like to pigeonhole and can easily point out more sophisticated American films (vide C.Kaufman, H.Korine, D.Lynch, P.T.Anderson) . However, there is no denying that American directors make films exposed to more pressure regarding the commercial effect of their films. Not everyone can resist this pressure.

Hahaha good catch!

I love Tony Leung in The Grandmaster. Such an amazing actor.

The Grandmaster is great. Wuxia movie as a gangster opera shot like a musical.

i have seen a handful Wong Kar Wei movies but Fallen Angels for the first time this year. absolutely loved it. this is a well established opinion, but WKW and Christopher Doyle and William Chang (editor) is such a power trio!!

I feel exactly the same, I prefer his more experimental MTV-style movies (basically the two you named) - this feels more like a step towards hollywood-style melodrama and an emphasis on static composition over the dynamic camera and anarchic spirit that distinguished those earlier films from the '90s. Though I totally understand if he kept making movies like chungking express for the rest of his career he would have become a gimmick film-maker and I totally respect his artistic vision is broader than that.

@@helvete_ingres4717 I love Hollywood style melodrama don't get me wrong but he feels his most comfortable when he's doing mind-bending stuff. It just works for him.

@@bespectacledheroine7292 yeah me too, I totally tried to love this film, I watched it twice and while I could find it moving, esp. the final scene, it hasn't exactly clicked for me that way. I suspect too this one is more about a middle-aged mentality, for people who've been thru marriage and stuff, whereas his more dynamic films are more youth-oriented. So I can always revisit it at another stage of life - that's one beautiful thing about film, art in general. I can appreciate that it's all about negative space, love unrealised and things that never happened, also resonates with the composition where things like characters' faces are omitted and everything happens off screen. And I appreciate it never offers a catharsis like a dream sequence where the would-be couple meet again (which I think a hollywood film would probably have done). Actually it does kind of seem to me like a film Bresson might have made if Bresson had gotten really into color (Bresson is an untouchable film-maker, unmatched in purity and naturalistic intensity). It does have a direct sequel which is very, very 'meta' and goes probably farthest into 'mind-bending' territory of all Wong's films (arguably self-indulgently so, since it's really his own relationship to his own work he's exploring)

knowing that I can’t speak for every university or every film student or anyone who has ever touched film school…I just didn’t see this film is the only answer. it’s here in front of me to study now which I’d rather think is most important.

to be fair can we even guess how many films that question could be applied towards? considering the location the film was made and where the class is taught, time of release in relation time to class attended, and the biggest factor of professors personal experiences and tastes there are so many films that could and should be studied but never or seldom make the limited time of a classroom