Oh gosh! I discovered him 15 years ago, when I watched Happy Together for the first time(I was 16) and I fell head over heels for his movies. Never before I felt so related to the work of a filmmaker, the same way I relate to Hopper, Murakami and Nick Drake's art(each in their respective category). What a masterful way to portray loneliness in film this man has
Maggie I get what you're saying. I love Murakami as well, more than "love", I don't know, there's just no suitable word for something that is so unique... I think you should totally have a taste of Harold Budd's sound works, especially with Robin Guthrie, i.e. "Bordeaux"; or "Nighthawks" and "Translucence + Drift Music" w/ John Foxx. This is truly outstanding, piercing, transcending music... It heals your soul and tears it apart at the same time..
@peter studios it's sorta like the "cheap fake" replica of, in this case, wong kar wai's other masterpieces. watch it and you'll see what i mean. i also think grandmaster's plot was pretty lame and a bit dull
this was so well done that i cried (maybe its the sleep deprivation that comes with writing an essay about wong kar wai or maybe i just love his movies a whole lot)
Can't tell you the number of times I've watched this video essay. I've never seen someone take such an intimate way of describing film(s), and making sense of it. You speak about Kar-wai like he were your best-friend, and that all of us are just getting acquainted with his craft. Great job. And what editing + soundtrack choice!
@@LLee-oe8nz For sure! I'm 南洋華僑 so I've got less of a horse in that race, but I get tired of hearing people refer to all of our art and histories as "Chinese" without regard for context or identity
At the time when I first saw his films as a teenager, the theme LOVE seemed very obvious and prominent. But after 20 years and I went back to watch them again, I found that that theme has shifted to IDENTITY. The identities that the characters found (or failed to find) within themselves, with others, with their surroundings, with the cities, with time, with the changes and the unchanged. His films are so much more than superficial aesthetics or certain genres like romance, drama, action, biography, they are more about explorations, experimentations and retrospections by the viewers along with the characters.
This is one best reviews I have seen in the YT. It's pity that no more of it is available in your channel. I hope you'll produced another amazing content again-assuming, and hoping that you're alive...
Just watched Chungking Express for the first time and was digging into Wong Kar-Wai. This was a great breakdown of his movies and style. Sad to see this is the only video on this channel in the last 3 years... subscribed anyway just in case. XD
I love all of his films and I wonder why Chungking Express is not available anywhere at the moment. It is just wonderful and upbeat for Wong Kar-wai. Exceptional filmmaker.
great video on this amazing film director, in my opinion "The Grandmaster" is the best martial art movie of all time. Never seen something so profound and poetic especially when it comes to kung-fu. Thanks for your work, you're doing an amazing job, both. ^^
Ashes of time deserve to be reconized as one of the best movie of the century. It's a movie that can't be translated to the West culture that's why they don't understand how great this movie is.
Amazing video essay, you can see how much effort was put into it! I know it’s been 3 years since you posted it, but i still hope you’ll make another one someday
Wong Kai Wai's films are so good. I have only seen a few of his film. They were good. Would like yo see all of them.Rather difficult in this day and age ofthe virus. Thank you for the footage.Love all the music in the films.
I'm a big Wong Kar Wai fan but the movie "farewell my concubine" blew my mind and it's still my favourite Chinese movies. Can somebody recommend me something as good as this movie? Please
Just want to point out, the reason why Chunking Express didn't end up as a three story film was actually not because of the budget or time but because Wong really liked the two actors' acting in the second story so the story extended from the original plan.
Hong Kong Cinema and Japanese cinema are my top 2 favorite in the world. Most people like Hollywood but they don’t even come close to the top 3. I also say European cinema and Korean would follow right after. Thai cinema is also quite underrated
happy together is definitely not the first film that deals with homosexual subject in China's film history。 just to name a few: Farewell My Concubine(1993), East Palace, West Palace（1996）
Let’s not forget that Wong Kar Wai and his contemporaries who are deemed the “new age of Hong Kong cinema” largely come from colonial Hong Kong and to put it under the overarching branch of “Chinese cinema” seems to be a conflation of the nuances. With regards to Wong Kar wai, his films had a distinct Hong Kong identity that is significantly different from Chinese contemporaries. Chinese cinema, Hong Kong cinema and Taiwan cinema are distinct threads and to label it all under Chinese cinema seems lackluster as each have their own distinct identities.
Maybe one thing to note is no where in Hollywood Wong would succeed. Working without clear script or even a clear plan will make all producers crazy. And the same can be said for Jackie Chan, though for different reasons
I really enjoyed this video and the overview of the work of this amazing director, made me want to rewatch the films of his that I've already seen and watch everything I haven't. Keep up the good work, I can't wait for more inquisitive videos like this, so don't get discouraged if you don't have too many views yet :)
I don't know if this was an accident or just lack of research but Wong Kar-Wai did not win the Palme d'or for Happy Together but he did win Best Director at Cannes Film Festival that year. I believe that might have just been a mix-up cause this video seems well researched but I just noticed that one mistake and it bothered me a little bit.
I really enjoyed watching this and learned a lot so thank you for making it. However, it's important that you stop referring to Asians/Southeast Asians as "oriental". It's outdated and colonialist.
Happy Together is my favorite. The Grandmaster is the worst of Wong’s movies. his clear preferential treatment for the main actress disrupts the theme, , balance and rhythm of the movie. I hope he learned the lesson.
Just like Wang Kar Wai's Cinema this video also ends with a heartbreak... no 2nd episode.
His movies get me on an emotional roller coaster, it touches my soul, and the aesthetics are unmatched.
i cried watching this but i always tear up when i see wong kar wai's work celebrated. he is so special to me.
His films are like being adrift in an ocean of lush bittersweet melancholic romantic longing . 😍😍😍
Me too!
The same, I swear the same! He's so special to me too!
me too :')
Hi! So great to see this comment ! Just discovered this director, and I am in love
Oh gosh! I discovered him 15 years ago, when I watched Happy Together for the first time(I was 16) and I fell head over heels for his movies. Never before I felt so related to the work of a filmmaker, the same way I relate to Hopper, Murakami and Nick Drake's art(each in their respective category). What a masterful way to portray loneliness in film this man has
Maggie I get what you're saying. I love Murakami as well, more than "love", I don't know, there's just no suitable word for something that is so unique... I think you should totally have a taste of Harold Budd's sound works, especially with Robin Guthrie, i.e. "Bordeaux"; or "Nighthawks" and "Translucence + Drift Music" w/ John Foxx. This is truly outstanding, piercing, transcending music... It heals your soul and tears it apart at the same time..
i could never understand those who call him overhyped
he has a lot of excellent masterpieces but also some meh movies
@peter studios blueberry nights was
@peter studios it's sorta like the "cheap fake" replica of, in this case, wong kar wai's other masterpieces. watch it and you'll see what i mean. i also think grandmaster's plot was pretty lame and a bit dull
i don't have anything against mr.wong, as i'm also a diehard fan of him. but no one's perfect after all
@@vietdinhvan1560 it's about culture that how it represents love
this was so well done that i cried (maybe its the sleep deprivation that comes with writing an essay about wong kar wai or maybe i just love his movies a whole lot)
Diana Duarte jiayou !
Both
Can't tell you the number of times I've watched this video essay. I've never seen someone take such an intimate way of describing film(s), and making sense of it. You speak about Kar-wai like he were your best-friend, and that all of us are just getting acquainted with his craft. Great job. And what editing + soundtrack choice!
ikr!! absolutely adore this video
Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong cinema are all wildly different currents with independent histories
@@LLee-oe8nz For sure! I'm 南洋華僑 so I've got less of a horse in that race, but I get tired of hearing people refer to all of our art and histories as "Chinese" without regard for context or identity
All memories are traces of tears.
You’ll lose out if you didn’t watch Ashes of time, its so fucking brilliant the feels and emotions in the film is so so strong 💀
At the time when I first saw his films as a teenager, the theme LOVE seemed very obvious and prominent. But after 20 years and I went back to watch them again, I found that that theme has shifted to IDENTITY. The identities that the characters found (or failed to find) within themselves, with others, with their surroundings, with the cities, with time, with the changes and the unchanged. His films are so much more than superficial aesthetics or certain genres like romance, drama, action, biography, they are more about explorations, experimentations and retrospections by the viewers along with the characters.
This is one best reviews I have seen in the YT. It's pity that no more of it is available in your channel. I hope you'll produced another amazing content again-assuming, and hoping that you're alive...
Just watched Chungking Express for the first time and was digging into Wong Kar-Wai. This was a great breakdown of his movies and style. Sad to see this is the only video on this channel in the last 3 years... subscribed anyway just in case. XD
Did this dude really just upload a single masterpiece and then vanish into thin air?
What can you do? Life be like that sometimes
Samiul Ehsan Shafin ikr. But I hope he’s good. :)
hello, mr. chow
@@prose729 Who's Chow?
@@prose729 hahaha are you still in HK?
I love all of his films and I wonder why Chungking Express is not available anywhere at the moment. It is just wonderful and upbeat for Wong Kar-wai. Exceptional filmmaker.
great news for us the cinephiles that a channel like cinemabreak gets into youtube, looking forward for the next episode!
lmao
@@thedarkknight9032 yeah maybe not so great news after all 😂😂
what it could be but never was.... I'M CRYYINGGGGG
This is brilliant work ! A series on the HK New Wave directors would amazing. Keep up the good work !!
Who are those new wave directors?
What a fantastic summary and analysis of Wong’s cinema. Please make more videos like this.
Today is Kar Wong's birthday. Want more video essays like this
Chunking Express in six weeks. That's amazing.
great video on this amazing film director, in my opinion "The Grandmaster" is the best martial art movie of all time. Never seen something so profound and poetic especially when it comes to kung-fu. Thanks for your work, you're doing an amazing job, both. ^^
Ashes of time deserve to be reconized as one of the best movie of the century.
It's a movie that can't be translated to the West culture that's why they don't understand how great this movie is.
Please make more videos of such directors!!
looking forward for the next episode, i would love to know ur perspective of ang lee/ john woo thankyouuu much love for this video
I'm still waiting for you to make more videos because this one still amazes me today.
excellent work ! every second of the video is well-researched. please keep up the goodwork !
Why aren’t there more videos like this? Pls keep making more!
great video! thanks for sharing
Amazing video essay, you can see how much effort was put into it! I know it’s been 3 years since you posted it, but i still hope you’ll make another one someday
Please also don’t forget Peter Chan. These are iconic HK directors that have shaped the industry.
Wong Kai Wai's films are so good. I have only seen a few of his film. They were good. Would like yo see all of them.Rather difficult in this day and age ofthe virus. Thank you for the footage.Love all the music in the films.
Where did this guy go? Too bad he made this great essay
This was fantastic. Subscribed.
Please upload another video as soon as you can. Its fantastic !
‘He tells us and experience.’
I look forward to see next videos of yours!
I'm a big Wong Kar Wai fan but the movie "farewell my concubine" blew my mind and it's still my favourite Chinese movies. Can somebody recommend me something as good as this movie? Please
"To Live" by Zhang Yimou is amazing.
@@LazyRadagast Thank you for your answer, I will watch it for sure!
@@gloria7190 that movie is not as good as the original fiction
Raise of the red lanter starring gong li
I found 2046 on a whim and feel in love with it than I got a chance to see in the mood for love
Please upload more. This was fantastic
Thank you for this amazing video essay!
Just want to point out, the reason why Chunking Express didn't end up as a three story film was actually not because of the budget or time but because Wong really liked the two actors' acting in the second story so the story extended from the original plan.
one vid in two years come on lets see more
Hong Kong Cinema and Japanese cinema are my top 2 favorite in the world. Most people like Hollywood but they don’t even come close to the top 3. I also say European cinema and Korean would follow right after. Thai cinema is also quite underrated
You kinda short shrifted As Tears Go By. That movie is fantastic!
Still waiting for episode 2
amazing video. can't wait for your next one!
You need to make more videos! This is good
so beautifully reviewed!
This is such an awesome video thank you!!!
Good illustration, thanks a lot.
Please do edward yang or hao hso hsien next! Please!!!
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Such ah legend .
pls....post more videos ..i really liked this
HI there, thank you so much for sharing amazing essay! So inspiring! Can I ask what is this mellow sound you used? Its so good...
happy together is definitely not the first film that deals with homosexual subject in China's film history。 just to name a few: Farewell My Concubine(1993), East Palace, West Palace（1996）
Let’s not forget that Wong Kar Wai and his contemporaries who are deemed the “new age of Hong Kong cinema” largely come from colonial Hong Kong and to put it under the overarching branch of “Chinese cinema” seems to be a conflation of the nuances. With regards to Wong Kar wai, his films had a distinct Hong Kong identity that is significantly different from Chinese contemporaries. Chinese cinema, Hong Kong cinema and Taiwan cinema are distinct threads and to label it all under Chinese cinema seems lackluster as each have their own distinct identities.
10:48 someone tell China about this. They seem to have forgotten their promise.
Love this! Please make more videos!
Brilliant work! I love WKW
Incredible detail, great job
Brilliant. I weep.
Great work!
What are these films?
1:51
2:25
2:28
2:49
2:55
6:10
8:59
as tears go by 1988
chungking express 1994
2046 (2004)
ty for timestamps i'm about to watch all this
That was amazing, it was put together meticulously.
Please make more videos
Enjoyed this! Thank you!
Maybe one thing to note is no where in Hollywood Wong would succeed. Working without clear script or even a clear plan will make all producers crazy. And the same can be said for Jackie Chan, though for different reasons
Great video. I've seen all Kar-wai films and you couldn't be more accurate.
Where's the other episodes?
Really great essay, thanks!
This guy is a genius!
Pleaee come back my dude
Great job
I lost count the number of times I watched WKW movies repeatedly.
Wong kar ❤
thanks！ Hope to see more
Pls make more
Am wondering who "growing up" track is by in the music
Very comprehensive.
I still want to distinguish Chinise movie and Hong Kong movie. Wong's movies are Hong Kong movie.
The thing i dont like about his movies is that the ending is mostly sad ending or ambiguous ending.
Whats the glasses is he wearing called
I really enjoyed this video and the overview of the work of this amazing director, made me want to rewatch the films of his that I've already seen and watch everything I haven't. Keep up the good work, I can't wait for more inquisitive videos like this, so don't get discouraged if you don't have too many views yet :)
I love wkw so much
Waiting for your next video on a different director.
his is also known for wearing sunglasses all the time.
Lovely!👌🏽
I don't know if this was an accident or just lack of research but Wong Kar-Wai did not win the Palme d'or for Happy Together but he did win Best Director at Cannes Film Festival that year. I believe that might have just been a mix-up cause this video seems well researched but I just noticed that one mistake and it bothered me a little bit.
Anthony S Yes, he did. Wong Kar-wai actually won the Palme d’Or in 1997, for Happy Together.
Gianfranco Cravero No he didn’t Anthony S is right. Kiarostami and Imamura won the Palme that year.
No video what has happened
I really enjoyed watching this and learned a lot so thank you for making it. However, it's important that you stop referring to Asians/Southeast Asians as "oriental". It's outdated and colonialist.
It just means that they come from the East
Failed to many times never gave up
I will be like him
Soshyant
Happy Together is my favorite. The Grandmaster is the worst of Wong’s movies. his clear preferential treatment for the main actress disrupts the theme, , balance and rhythm of the movie. I hope he learned the lesson.
please upload more
happy together did not win the palm dor it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won Best Director at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
Suscribed. Please, share us more videos.
nice
where's the ep2
i don't think the writer of this video really watches Wong Kar Wai's movies, as a lot of information about the movie stories are inaccurate