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We're going to see Chungking Express, the 1994 film by master stylist Wong Kar-Wai

We'll meet in the Watershed café/bar from 5:15 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, there'll be time to sit and talk about the film.

Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
(This screening is sold out. A waiting list is available.)

ABOUT THE FILM

"The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon.

"Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing."
— Watershed Summary

"I can honestly say, probably more than any other movie in the last two years, no movie spoke to me, got under my skin, just made me fall in love with it. I’ve seen Chungking Express several times, but the last time I just started crying, you know, tears just started falling during this movie, about three different times. And it’s just because my feelings for this movie run so deep… I’m just happy to love a movie this much."
— Quentin Tarantino (1996)

"His hypnotic images of love and loss finally wear down your resistance as seemingly discordant sights and sounds coalesce into a radiant, crazy quilt"
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone (1996)

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