New Wong Kar-wai DVDs

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Image just redid and rereleased pretty much everything he's ever done (except Ashes of Time and In the Mood for Love). Has anyone seen any of these? Are the transfers of Happy Together and Fallen Angels any better (god, they'd have to be) than the old Kino editions?

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Great news! Hopefully the transfer for "In the Mood for Love" is well done--I haven't been able to bring myself to pay $40 for the Criterion version.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 4 November 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago)

didn't he say they aren't re-releasing in the mood for love?

a new chungking express would rock, the existing dvd is pretty lousy.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

or at least i don't see why they would release ITMFL, the criterion print is pristine.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

No, ITMFL is out in a lovely Criterion version, and I guess someone else owns Ashes. It's all the others that have gotten rework and/or rerelease. I just wanna know if the new transfers are improved enough for me to replace the totally crappy Kino editions.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

sorry, read that wrong.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 4 November 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago)

whats with these dvds of 2046 that are on sale on ebay?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=617&item=6337939622&rd=1
i thought he hadn't settled on a final edit yet????

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 6 November 2004 08:26 (twenty years ago)

I just bought one today that had a different cover.

― JUSHINTHUNDERLIGER (deangulberry), Saturday, 6 November 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago)

hmm, now i've looked into it a bit more these seem to be offical Chinese releases. i'd be very hesitant to buy one though, i bought a Chinese copy of 'Hidden Fortress' and the subtitles were dreadful.

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 7 November 2004 06:21 (twenty years ago)

This version (available on ebay etc from China) is the Cannes cut - the version to be released in the West is the final cut....

― David N (David N.), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago)

the criterion in the mood for love can be fairly easily gotten for $20-30 on ebay, depending on whether you want used or new.

― andrew s (andrew s), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 06:15 (twenty years ago)

i heard that the chinese dvd was the final cut (and the cut western audiences will eventually see) and that the cut shown at cannes won't ever be seen again. also, the chinese dvd has a mandarin dub over tony leung's voice, hardcoded chinese subs in the japanese parts, and a distracting company logo crossing the screen every five minutes - possibly only when you're playing it with english subs on? true for the dvd source rip i downloaded anyhow.

― brian badbreath (badwords), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago)

i guess these are region 1, right? god i need fallen angels, ashes of time and days of being wild for region 2

― choski, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i got the "director's cut" of 2046 last week.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm not his biggest fan, but I saw "Days of Being Wild" in a theater last night, and except maybe for "Happy Together" it's the best thing he ever did.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Morbs,
Was it just a rep/revival or is there a new print out? I like "Days of Being Wild" quite a lot though I wouldn't rate it best out of all the WKW films. Have you seen Jia-Zhang Ke's "Platform" (which reminds me of DOBW)?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago)

I like Platform more than anything WKW has done.

It was a new print (with the improved subtitles) -- they generally strike them and show them at the NYC Film Forum and other arthouses prior to or concurrent with a DVD release.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I saw WKW do a Q&A on Happy Together at the NY Film Festival, and he made a bit of an ass of himself, constantly running down Chris Doyle, among other things. But the man no reflection on his work, mind you.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

How do you mean he was "running down Chris Doyle"? btw i'm surrently downloading 2046 - it has no subtitles but i'll watch it anyway.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:20 (twenty years ago)

Well, I seem to remember him saying something like "Chris can't do this, Chris can't do that," maybe implying that Chris came to work with a hangover or something, BS like that. I distinctly remember him saying and repeating "Chris is not a storyteller, Chris is not a storyteller," i.e. he is only a cameraman, a technician there to implement my artistic vision as per my detailed instructions.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:40 (twenty years ago)

does anyone have any experience ordering chinese dvds from monkeypeaches.com? they're supposed to be shipped directly from china and the prices look great. thanks.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Geez, I recently saw the Criterion in the mood for love, and there are deleted scenes in there that are from a whole differently styled movie!! TL & MC doing the twist, cooking a meal in a hotel room (sorta Annie Hall lobster vibe), other wacky comedy stuff. He seems to shoot everything he can think of and then makes the film in editing, no wonder he's always delivering wet prints to festivals.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

There shouldn't be a "seems" in that last sentence. That's exactly what he does!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MH31GKORjA

this scene makes me cry every time

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 14 January 2008 07:34 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

So. . . is there such thing as an available version of the first song in Chungking Express? It's kind of on the soundtrack, by which I mean there's a really cheesy and different version which is pretty much crap -- as opposed to the absolutely amazing music in the film. Assuming the answer is already no, can anyone at least direct somewhere that'll show me what the best way to get audio off a DVD is?

― mehlt, Saturday, 23 August 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, I arrive here through search and think it's ILE. Probably wasn't a great thread to post this in anyways.

― mehlt, Saturday, 23 August 2008 02:16 (sixteen years ago)

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