![]() ![]() Tuesday brings Days of Being Wild, the film that christened Wong’s key partnership with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, and it’s a clear step up – a dazzling whirl through the bright lights of 1960s Hong Kong, tracking a reckless playboy through personal and familial crisis. It’s his most conventional film, given its hoary narrative throughline of a Chinese triad gangster torn between love and honour, but enlivened with nascent, skittering flashes of his woozy signature style.īrigitte Lin and Takeshi Kaneshiro in Chungking Express (1994) by Wong Kar-Wai. Monday kicks things off, obviously enough, with his 1988 debut As Tears Go By. The ICA’s programme effectively offers a Wong a day for the coming week, with all the films available to stream there for a fortnight after their debut. His very best films invite not simple viewing, but complete inhalation. Whatever the precise grade, his work is reliably hot with colour and sensual detail – be it the steam rising off a pot of noodles, or the slick of sweat between entangled limbs. Launching on the ICA’s new online Cinema 3 platform on Monday, the retrospective extends to the BFI Player from 8 February.Ĭinema screenings at the ICA and BFI Southbank will follow whenever the pandemic permits – but for now, in the midst of a wintry lockdown, a Wong feast feels just right. ![]() Seven of Wong’s films have been given glistening new 4K restorations for the World of Wong Kar-Wai retrospective, which also includes a number of unrestored titles. Happily, we can see for ourselves this week, with a streaming event that offers much more to savour than technical debate. ![]()
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