Thompson on Hollywood: TOH! Ranks the Best Films of Wong Kar-Wai, with an Intro by David Chute (AUDIO INTERVIEW)

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TOH! Ranks the Best Films of Wong Kar-Wai, with an Intro by David Chute (AUDIO INTERVIEW) Aug 25th 2013, 00:34, by TOH! With "The Grandmaster" hitting theaters, the TOH! team reviews and ranks the best of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai, whose output is just ten features (along with many shorts) since 1988. But first, we have an introduction to Wong's oeuvre from Asia Film wonk David Chute: Origin Story: Wong Kar-wai BeginsI first saw Wong Kar-wai's early movies over thirty years ago, in theaters in Los Angeles' Chinatown and the San Gabriel Valley, when they were first released in the 1980s. I knew him, you could say, before he was Wong Kar-wei.Wong made his debut as a director in 1988, several months after a "midsection" supplement of articles I had edited, "Made in Hong Kong," was published in "Film Comment. (One excellent piece from that package is available online.) Prior to that he was off the fan radar, a hard-working commercial screenwriter in the HK industry, cranking out mostly fluffy comedies with English titles like "Once Upon a Rainbow" (1982) and "Silent Romance" (1984). The... Media files: the-grandmaster-tony-leung.png (image/jpeg)

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