Ashes of Time (Dung che sai duk)

My trips to the cinema 2023 (410 movies items)

"SCREENING: 35mm, Redux DATE: March 7th CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End"

Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (424 movies items)

"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★ NOTES: The Redux cut. Scratchiest on the right half, but the colours and picture are impressive and the sound is phenomenal. This is one of those films that could only work on celluloid in an auditorium. DATE: March 7th 2023 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End"

MOVIE DIARY - JANUARY 2022 (27 movies items)

" My review : https://www.listal.com/viewentry/23832585 "

“Resolutely atypical than this film by Wong Kar-Wai. We are entitled to kick in touch, as the aesthetic overload and the over-dialogued story prevent a real hook. That said, the presence of the sublime Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin would almost make you forget the ambient languor...” read more

“(Mu) Kar Wai goes with his aestetics to martial arts historical genre and he diffuminaes the clarity of the sotry, even time and identity of characters. Even so, there's tone, texture, sediments, good action secuences with stop motions and then good dialogues (all the women woth the eggs stuff and the dalogues between friends is ok)...” read more

A Complete Review of Wong Kar-wai's work (12 movies items)

" Cast : Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung What was it about? A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings. My two cents: Even though it is a rather short feature, Wong Kar-wai struggled so much while making this movie that, during the post-production, he actually stopped working on it and made in the mean time ‘Chung hing sam lam’. Eventually, he still couldn’t let it go and, 14 years later, he came up with ano"

A good movie

“Not so long ago, I saw Wong Kar-wai’s last directing effort, ‘Yi dai zong shi’, but even though it was rather promising, I thought it was ultimately rather disappointing. Still, the guy remains a very interesting director so I decided to check one of his older movies as well. Apparently, even though it is a rather short feature, Wong Kar-wai struggled so much while making this movie that, during the post-production, he actually stopped working on it and made in the mean time ‘Chung hing sam lam’. Eventually, he still couldn’t let it go and, 14 years later, he came up with another version called ‘Ashes of Time Redux’ which was the version I saw. Anyway, even though I admired this movie just like most of the other work delivered by this director, I had a really hard time to c” read more