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Frances Chan
Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Posts: 74 Location: Vietnam
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 10:51 pm Post subject: Pictures from Chungking Express |
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Chungking Express - one of my favourite movies ever!!! Even when I'm in bad mood, Chungking is stills be able to take me out of sadness and blows the new wind in my life.
Love Chungking so much. If I travel to Hong Kong, the place I can't miss will be Chungking Mansion. Thanks to Wong Kar Wai and the crew, cinema has a masterpiece. To me, it's a special feeling that I've ever enjoyed!
_________________ Nothing remains the same forever! (from "Fallen Angels" - 1995) |
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In The Mood For Leung
Joined: 13 Jan 2010 Posts: 237 Location: State of Nirvana, USA
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Same here Frances- CE is one of my fav films of all time. The film is very sensually Hong Kong.
Thanks for the pics- first time I've seen these. |
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Safran
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1322 Location: Austria
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:32 am Post subject: |
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Thank you Frances !
Watching these beautiful CE stills ...... and recollecting..... I´m immediately longing for Hong Kong |
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yitian
Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Posts: 413 Location: United States
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Love the film, love your pics. Thanks, Frances! I see you're already an expert on using this site.
PS, As shown by some of your pics, are you the 11111Frances on Weibo.com? |
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Frances Chan
Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Posts: 74 Location: Vietnam
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 2:42 am Post subject: |
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Thanks so much for your appreciation . I collected them from many sources. I love the Wong's movies, and Chungking Express may be one of the two most typical successes of Wong all over the world, the other is certainly world-famous In The Mood For Love . As a Wong's addict, I feel so heartened whenever I "hunt for" his movie's photo. I love all of his works. But Chungking Express has its own taste that I can't find in others. Just the only one...that kind of feeling
Chungking Express has always stimulated interest and inspired me to something new I'm looking for, maybe a "California" in everyone's dream.
I turn to be obsessed with "California Dreaming" and "What a difference a day make" at the time Mr. 633 stepped into "Midnight Express"...How a wonderful movie...I think that even the Chungking Mansion's residents must also be surprised when watching this film. Perhaps they couldn't imagine that their usual town can become such a cinematic and attractive place on-screen.
Quote: | I´m immediately longing for Hong Kong | Helga, you should be there in your previous visit . OMG, I imagine that you were floating amongst the crowd in the "international area" like Chungking, such a wonderful feeling!!! Quote: | I see you're already an expert on using this site.
PS, As shown by some of your pics, are you the 11111Frances on Weibo.com? | Yitian, I'm just amateur ^^. Maybe because I've been a regular reader of this site for a long time so...iam quite accustomed to its interface. Yeah, "11111Frances" is my weibo account. You may visit me sometimes . _________________ Nothing remains the same forever! (from "Fallen Angels" - 1995) |
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Safran
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1322 Location: Austria
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:16 am Post subject: |
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Hi "WKW-addict"
As unconditional WKW fan, visiting "Chungking Mansions" was a "must see" - of course ! A lot has changed there, since the shootings of "CE" (I guess no more flats). When we went there - last June, almost all of the "million" little shops inside (div. electronic stuff...herbs, tea, food... - most Indian) were closed unfortunately and we walked through some dark lonely corridors.....huuuuh Outdoor - as contrast - the lively Nathan Road and TST-district....very stunningly and most impressive for me )
Best regards -
Helga |
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Jamaica
Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 419 Location: Lexington, KY United States
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the LOVELY CE shots, Frances! Tony was such a dear, sweet lad in that movie - one of the nicest characters he's played. Gotta love that guy! _________________ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx |
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yitian
Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Posts: 413 Location: United States
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:59 am Post subject: |
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A 2005 list:
CE is ranked as one of the "All-TIME 100 Movies" by Time Magazine critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel, since 1923—the beginning of TIME.
http://entertainment.time.com/2005/02/12/all-time-100-movies/slide/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god-1972/#chungking-express-1994#ixzz1ulje2xVp
The epitome and apotheosis of art-house romance in the 90s, Wong Kar-wai developed a style like no other director —though, as his renown grew beyond China, dozens tried. It is atmosphere used to create the most fleeting or lasting emotion, a mix of longing gazes, swirling cigarette smoke, double-printed slo-mo images and the Colony’s most gorgeous actors. Wong might have gone higher with the Eastern Western Ashes of Time, and deeper with that aching epic 2046, but we’ll choose the more lighthearted Chungking Express as an admirable starter set. It’s a set because the film tells two stories: one of young Takeshi Kaneshiro falling for ageless Brigitte Lin, the other pairing Hong Kong cop Tony Leung Chiu-wai with the elfin beauty Faye Wong. With his two essential collaborators, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and designer William Chang, Wong weaves a tapestry of longing and seduction that puts both the characters and the audience in the mood for love. The love story is a genre inexplicably ignored by both art-house and commercial directors. Isn’t it lovely, then, that Wong Kar-wai is always in that mood?
BTW, love your weibo site, Frances - unmistakenly yours with CE pictures on backgrand on every page. You have a lot of picutures I haven't seen before. It would be really nice if you could share with us here at the Forum from time to time, since lots of our friends here have no excess to weibo site. |
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Frances Chan
Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Posts: 74 Location: Vietnam
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | A lot has changed there, since the shootings of "CE" (I guess no more flats). When we went there - last June, almost all of the "million" little shops inside (div. electronic stuff...herbs, tea, food... - most Indian) were closed unfortunately and we walked through some dark lonely corridors.....huuuuh Outdoor - as contrast - the lively Nathan Road and TST-district....very stunningly and most impressive for me ) | Thanks a lot for your wonderful information, Helga . Time flies, 18 years passed like the wind. I always thirst for seeing how much Chungking changes by my own eyes. Surely I can't expect it remains the same as what we see in film but I still feel some kinds of lost emotions, sometimes... But my love for this place has never changed. I don't know why .
Oh, after your description, I only want to set foot in there right now.
Quote: | BTW, love your weibo site, Frances - unmistakenly yours with CE pictures on backgrand on every page. You have a lot of picutures I haven't seen before. It would be really nice if you could share with us here at the Forum from time to time, since lots of our friends here have no excess to weibo site. |
Thank you for your appreciation . Now Iam planning to bring more Tony's images on weibo to our "home" . Hope to see you around in my next topic, yitian.
P/s: I'm so happy to know you guys like these images . I'll try to looking for some more. _________________ Nothing remains the same forever! (from "Fallen Angels" - 1995) |
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yitian
Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Posts: 413 Location: United States
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Frances Chan wrote: | Now I am planning to bring more Tony's images on weibo to our "home" . |
Eagerly waiting...... |
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Safran
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1322 Location: Austria
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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...........me too ....... |
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Frances Chan
Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Posts: 74 Location: Vietnam
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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I've returned with a bunch of gorgeous gifs.
Source: thanks to Tumblr _________________ Nothing remains the same forever! (from "Fallen Angels" - 1995) |
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Jamaica
Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 419 Location: Lexington, KY United States
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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Veeeery nice! Thank you, Frances! _________________ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx |
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Safran
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1322 Location: Austria
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Tin-Yau
Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Posts: 149 Location: Germany
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 3:12 am Post subject: |
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This one is great, thanks Frances! _________________ Water which is too pure has no fish. |
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