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What is Wong Kar-wai's best film?

haven't seen any
1 (5%)
don't like any
0 (0%)
other
0 (0%)
As Tears Go By
0 (0%)
Days of Being Wild
0 (0%)
Chungking Express
6 (30%)
Ashes of Time / Ashes of Time Redux
1 (5%)
Fallen Angels
1 (5%)
Happy Together
1 (5%)
In the Mood for love
7 (35%)
2046
2 (10%)
Eros (segment "The Hand")
0 (0%)
My Blueberry Nights
1 (5%)
The Grandmaster
0 (0%)

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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2009, 06:47:32 PM »
1. Chungking Express
2. Fallen Angels
3. Days Of Being Wild
4. 2046
5. Happy Together
6. In The Mood For Love
7. Ashes Of Time/Redux
8. As Tears Go By
9. My Blueberry Nights

I like them all.

I wanted to post something like that too. It's a sign of a director's ability to craft great movies when one has trouble picking a favourite or best film essentially because one likes all of them.

I almost clicked on Days of Being Wild but went to In The Mood For Love at the last moment.
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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2009, 06:50:05 PM »
What say you?

Supplemental question: How many masterpieces does he have?  Name them.


Not a masterpiece, but I think Ashes of Time (now that I've seen it twice) often gets the shaft and lost in the huddle when we think of his filmography.
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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2009, 09:03:36 PM »
Blueberry. The only other one I've seen is Chungking.

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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2009, 09:56:38 PM »
So far:

1. Chungking Express
2. In the Mood for Love
3. 2046
4. DJ Shadow's "Six Days" video
5. The Hire short with Clive Owen
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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2009, 10:19:32 PM »
Supplemental question: How many masterpieces does he have?  Name them.

My top 6 for sure.  Ashes might be, but I've only seen it twice.
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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2009, 11:25:08 PM »
1. Chungking
2. ITMFL
3. Fallen Angels
4. Happy Together
5. Days of Being Wild

That's what mine looks like as well.

All of them are fantastic, I need to finish up the rest.

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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2009, 12:48:26 AM »
Supplemental question: How many masterpieces does he have?  Name them.

By definition, can't an artist have only one masterpiece?
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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2009, 01:41:43 AM »
By definition, isn't every piece by a master a masterpiece?
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« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2009, 01:46:19 AM »
No, I don't think so.
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Re: Wong Kar-wai
« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2009, 06:36:41 AM »
Is a master a master for all of his carrer?
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