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...And Blossoms Shanghai, the newly released series from the Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, who made his mark with Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love, is largely a mainland Chinese production that...
...Leung — also an arthouse heart-throb in films such as Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love — plays Henry Ching Yat-yin, a financial soldier of fortune who strikes it lucky by posing as a white-suited high...
...Led by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai, best known for Chungking Express (1994) and In the Mood for Love (2000), Blossoms uses lighting, locations and the language of its dialogue to create a particular...
...Movies such as Fallen Angels, directed by Wong Kar Wai and set in Hong Kong, cemented the links between the city and neon....
...Kar did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The BoE declined to comment on Branch’s behalf. The government and the CMA declined to comment....
...“Many aesthetic cues belong to China, because it’s so big,” says photographer Leslie Zhang, whose work references everything from Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express to landscape paintings....
...Over its 23 minutes, they borrow from Peking and Cantonese opera, Taoist philosophy and the films of Wong Kar-wai to create a parallel universe in which seven dream sequences play across the screen....
...In the 12 years since Cheng’s father, Cheng Kar-Shun (known as Henry), the billionaire chairman of Hong Kong-based New World Development (which includes New World Hotels, an Asia-based collection), acquired...
...Later on Sunday, Kurdish militants in the Tal Rifat region fired a rocket launcher at a police station at a border crossing outside the town of Kilis, Turkey, wounding eight security officers, Turkey’s interior...
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...On alighting, I walk up the famous escalator, the world’s longest of its kind, immortalised in Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express by Tony Leung and Faye Wong....
...Nicole Kar, global head of antitrust and foreign investment at law firm Linklaters, said: “The lack of transparency and communication by the investment security unit during the national security and investment...
...A US-domiciled version of the KraneShares strategy (KARS), which started trading in New York in early 2018, manages some $240mn in assets....
...“a blessed land” during her reign....
...Its output was commercially successful overseas as well as at home as filmmakers turned out titles such as 1985’s Police Story starring Chan and 1990’s Days of Being Wild, directed by Wong Kar-wai....
...Chungking Mansions 36-44 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, kowloon, hong kong Website; Directions For anyone who has seen Chungking Express, Wong Kar-Wai’s classic film that evokes the tightly packed chaotic...
...In the Mood for Love director Wong Kar-Wai is similarly never seen without his rectangular sunglasses, which are essential to his identity as a filmmaker....
...Indeed, Nicole Kar, partner at Linklaters, said at this week’s hearing: “What might surprise investors is that both economic commitments are being taken by the government as well as national security commitments...
...Curtis looms like her Halloween nemesis Michael Myers; there are witty riffs on Hong Kong film-maker Wong Kar-wai and a gag involving 2001: A Space Odyssey that flat-out made me howl....
...Wong Kar Wai picked up the thread of this long, lovely ache of melancholy from characters featured in his earlier Hong Kong fable, Days of Being Wild....
...She spent hours on the internet and developed a deep obsession with the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Wong Kar-Wai....
...As competition lawyer Nicole Kar of Linklaters told a recent parliamentary hearing: “These are very important signals to investors. Is this about the political mores of the day?...
...Rifat Hisarciklioglu, TOBB’s president, called on the government to take “urgent steps” to stabilise the markets and restore a more predictable environment for business....
...I had a few moments like that. One of them was seeing Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express when I was an undergrad. I grew up in the world of Moonlight, like hood, hood, hood....
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