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	Ashes of Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashes of Time (東邪西毒; pinyin: Dōngxié Xīdú, literally "The Heretic East and the Venomous West") is a 1994 wuxia film directed by Wong Kar-wai, based loosely on two characters from the Louis Cha novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
		His character is portrayed as a fallen swordsman driven by greed and heartless to both friend and foe.
		Ashes of Time grossed HK $9,023,583 during its Hong Kong run.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashes_of_Time (252 words)

	ASHES OF TIME - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The distinctions between the two artists are provincial: the milieu, of course (Ashes of Time unfolds in a Leone-esque desert far removed from Egoyan's insular Canada), as well as Wong's Eastern romanticism.
		Ashes of Time leaves itself open to symbolic interpretation, yet it's pretty cohesive as a meditation (hate that word, but...) on the metaphysics of aging.
		I viewed Mei Ah Laser Co.'s menu-less, region-free Ashes of Time DVD release, whose non-anamorphically letterboxed (at 1.85:1) image is accompanied by the odd configuration of 2.1 Dolby Digital audio (in Cantonese or Mandarin with burned-in "Chinese" and English subtitles).
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/ashesoftime.htm (467 words)

	[KFCC] Ashes of Time Review
		Ashes of Time is epic tale set in the martial arts world involving legendary characters, it was this description that got me interested in seeing the movie.
		Ashes of Time turned out to be something quite different from what I expected, it's not a martial arts movie but more a drama.
		Ashes of Time is a very slow paced movie, there are a few action scenes in the movie but I found them useless and painful to watch.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/swordplay/ashesoftime/ashesoftime.html (872 words)

	Ashes of Time
		Foremost among these younger selves in "Ashes of Time" is Ouyang Feng (played by Leslie Cheung), the film's central figure, who, like a samurai, is an itinerant sword for hire.
		For those who seek metaphors, "Ashes of Time," which opens today at Cinema Village, presents the eye as well as the illusions of vision.
		For those who seek battle, "Ashes of Times" offers intermittent blurs of action, streaks of flying figures, flashing steel, and rare spatters and gouts of moist crimson, all washing across the screen like hurried brush paintings.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/ashes_of_time.html (509 words)

	Ashes Time
		The common scenario in many of these stories is the tending of a fire and the cleaning out of ashes as the troubled youths examine their lives and all of life.
		Ashes stories are the stuff of personal growth, the development of values and morals, the becoming of identity and self.
		At times you need to be alone in the ashes and other times you will need help deciphering what it is the ashes have to teach.
	www.wpi.edu /News/TechNews/960213/Ashes.html (591 words)

	The Ashes through time
		It commemorates a famous mock obituary in the Sporting Times, announcing the death of English cricket after a seven-run loss to Australia at The Oval on August 29, 1882.
		England went home with the Ashes, but not before riots at packed grounds were narrowly averted and diplomatic relations between the two countries briefly threatened after Australia accused England of unsportsmanlike behaviour.
		They have not lost an Ashes series since and, by beating a fading West Indies side in 1995, they have been world number one for the past 10 years.
	inhome.rediff.com /cricket/2005/jul/20ashes.htm (1897 words)

	Ashes Of Time
		Watching 'Ashes of Time' for the first time on its tenth year anniversary is maybe the best way to approach it.
		Far from disjointed or confusing, Ashes of Time's plot is a tapestry of emotion, audaciously flashing backwards and forwards and shifting voice-overs to piece together the moments that have led the characters to the barren wastes of the desert.
		Ashes of Time offended the wuxia crowd who felt the action was insufficient and overly abstract in execution.
	www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/ashes_of_time.htm (756 words)

	Ashes of Time
		A comedic version of "Ashes of Time," called "The Eagle Shooting Heroes: Dong Cheng Xi Jiu," was directed by Jeff Lau and released in January of 1993.
		In the meantime, the production of "Ashes of Time", which was only in the early stages, was suspended until the large cast could once again coordinate their schedules.
		"Ashes of Time" is generally regarded to be an unofficial, unacknowledged sequel to "Days of Being Wild," in that it utilizes much of the same cast and crew and covers a similar thematic terrain.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/ashes_of_time/about.php (512 words)

	ashes of time
		Ashes Of Time is considered as an unofficial sequel to Wong Kar Wai second feature Days Of Being Wild.
		Ashes Of Time (AOT) is not only a free adaptation of the novel The Eagle Shooting Hero but it is also an adaptation of the fantasy world created by writer Louis Cha.
		The ideas of rejection and treason developed in AOT are indeed the main lines of his work.
	hkcinemagic.ifrance.com /siteanglais/apages/aaot.htm (1177 words)

	HKActionFilms.com \| Reviews \| Ashes of Time (1994)
		The Mei Ah DVD is bare-bones—no menu, no time or chapter info for the player display, and poorly placed chapter breaks—but apparently it's the best version available at present (I've been advised to avoid the purple-covered World Video release like the plague).
		It's so bad it's almost hallucinogenic.) Ashes' transfer suffers from a milky/filmy quality that may be in the original film print—the fls are not deep at all, more of a dark gray—and there is some ghosting, particularly in scenes with quick camera moves.
		Ashes of Time is in no way your typical martial arts movie, but you already knew that.
	www.hkactionfilms.com /reviews_ashes.htm (630 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| Ashes of Time (1994)Wong Kar Wai, Brigitte Lin
		As movies such as Pulp Fiction and others would later adopt in years to come, "Ashes of Time's" various storylines are truly overwhelming at first, but with proper attention and some brainwork, it can be figured out.
		"Ashes of Time" is not about the swordplay or the martial arts, although they do exist within the background of the film.
		In the end, time will always move forward, the seasons will always change, but the choices we make, like the bodies of oceans that crashes against the beaches, will always remain no matter how much time has passed.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/ashesoftime.htm (983 words)

	Movie: Ashes of Time
		"Ashes of Time," or "Dong Xie Xi Du" as it is called in Chinese, meaning Evil East Venomous West, wasn't a straight adaptation of Jin Yong's book like so many others.
		Leaving that story to be resolved later, the movie jumps in time to the time when a person named MuRong Yan (Brigitte Lin) came to OuYang Feng putting a price on Huang YaoShi's head, claiming that he had wronged his sister, MuRong Yin.
		It was a long wait for the horse thieves to arrive, during which time the nearly blind swordsman noticed the poor girl standing at the front of OuYang Feng's hut because she had reminded him of his wife.
	www.spcnet.tv /movie/ashesoftime/movie_ashesoftime.shtml (2709 words)

	filmthreat.com
		However, what is "current" is up for question, for time placement is irrelevant; the vignettes are not presented in chronological order, and three-fourths into the film comes a text card that divulges the ultimate fates of Ouyang and the shoeless swordsman.
		As in many of Wong's films, love, loss, and regret are the primary concerns of "Ashes of Time," and through the poetic prose of his dialogue, the gorgeous photography (done, with his usual care, by Wong's longtime collaborator Christopher Doyle), and the pitch-perfect performances, these abstract ideas become tangible and concrete.
		The fight scenes in "Ashes of Time" are as brutal as any as one would see in a more traditional martial arts extravaganza: lots of blood is spewed; many limbs go flying.
	www.filmthreat.com /index.php?section=reviews&Id=3343 (515 words)

	Ashes of Time
		The first time I watched this film I nearly shut it off after twenty minutes because I felt so confused and so disconnected with what was happening on the screen.
		The third time (one day after!) that I watched ASHES OF TIME, I saw still more that allowed me to understand not only the actions but also the feelings and outlooks of each now eminently distinctive character.
		The fifth time (one week on), I watched the film in segmented parts, and found that individual sections could successfully stand alone to be appreciated.
	www.brns.com /pages/wkwai3.html (1189 words)

	Ashes of Time Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ashes of Time Productions is a privately owned bi-coastal company who provides video, television, and film production services to clients worldwide.
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		Ashes of Time Productions has the experience and expertise for every film and video need.
	www.kidsunited.org /ashes2.html (190 words)

	Dung che sai duk (Ashes of Time) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This was more or less my feeling on this film the first time I watched it in '96 when I wasn't a serious film fan and didn't understand what art was.
		Ashes of Time is one of the most controversial film of the 90s, at least in the Hong Kong film scene.
		In one of the most touching monologues of all time, Maggie Cheung speaks to Huang Yao-Shi, who visits her every year to bring her news of Ouyang Feng (without breaking the promise of ever telling Feng the truth), about the fact that after all these years she still remembers and loves Ouyang Fen.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/ashes.html (2490 words)

	Amazon.com: Ashes of Time: Video: Kar Wai Wong,Brigitte Lin,Leslie Cheung,Maggie Cheung,Tony Leung Chiu Wai,Jacky ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Only a couple of times, there are pixilated intrusions of images from some other movie, with white people in it, for a second or two.
		In "Ashes of Time," Maggie Cheung shows up for only for a few minutes but she impacts all of Leslie Cheung's character.
		'Ashes of Time' is the rarest of Wong Kar Wei's films and best remembered as the one that so confounded him that he went off and made 'Chungking Express' to clear his mind before finishing it.
	www.amazon.com /Ashes-Time-Kar-Wai-Wong/dp/B00003JRBZ (2169 words)

	DVD Booty - Ashes of Time
		Ashes of Time is one of my most favourite movies.
		Ashes of Time *Reviewed by Moinllieon Send this reviewer an email...
		The third time (one day after!) that I watched ASHES OF TIME, I saw still more that allowed me to u...
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/ashes-of-time (230 words)

	Ashes of Time
		In contrast to the plodding explanations of a TV episode, Ashes of Time shows us characters without telling us who they are until much later.
		Time jumps both backward and forward -- not carelessly or randomly, but in such a way as to unfold the story of each character.
		The first time I saw Ashes of Time, I immediately rewound it and watched it again.
	www.geocities.com /rwvong/ashes.html (1158 words)

	Ashes of Time (Mei AH)
		ASHES OF TIME is the story of a swordsmen and the people that walk in and out of his life.
		In the short time these characters are on the screen, you begin to care about them.
		ASHES OF TIME is not everybody's cup of tea.
	www.loveandbullets.com /aotma.htm (299 words)

	Wong Kar-wai : Ashes of Time
		More about insistent memory than triumphant swordplay, Ashes of Time is an "action movie about inaction," about swordsmen in their twilight, seemingly at the edge of the world, marooned by thoughts tantalizingly clouded with lovesick memories, by the ache of loves lost.
		Though the blur of action sequences are certainly dazzling and glorious, this is mostly a movie of lone figures staring towards unseen, sometimes internal, horizons, their hearts lodged in another time.
		For the properly susceptible, Ashes of Time is one of the swooniest movies ever made.
	www.amamedia.org /movies/wong/ashes_of_time.html (675 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Ashes of Time
		In Ashes of Time, which is Wong’s try at the wu-xia genre, he brings his distinctive style and worldview to a genre that normally would work best with the most workmanlike direction imaginable.
		One must pay close attention to follow each of the film’s myriad plot twists, but the attentive, or perseverant, viewer is rewarded with an unexpected amount of emotional impact by the time Maggie Cheung’s closing soliloquy rolls around.
		Even those that can’t quite follow the plot of Ashes of Time should enjoy the fleeting pleasure that Wong’s gorgeous images and frenetic editing provide, if they aren’t expecting a slam-bang action epic.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1994/ashesoftime.htm (382 words)

	Wong Kar-Wai filmography - Time Out Film
		Time Out catches up with the legendary cinematographer to discuss 'Dumplings' and 'Lady in the Water'.
		Continuing our end-of-year round-up, Time Out's deputy film editor Ben Walters lists his favourites of 2005.
		Time Out catches up with the world's most famous Ewok to discuss the trilogy's DVD re-release.
	www.timeout.com /film/people/299787.html (276 words)

	Ashes of time
		One is going blind, another turning amnesiac, the rest are haunted by their various memories.
		The names Kurosawa and Leone come tripping to the tongue in attempting to describe this brooding mÚlange of extreme tilts and outlandish angles...Ashes of Time is mostly anticipation with sudden inexplicable episodes of slo-mo zap blurs of martial art tumult, as well as mystically congruent earthquakes and geysers.
		Just as the flickering network of shadows efface the identities of Wong's swordsmen and women, the complicated plot is nearly overpowered by the film's anticipatory buildup, convoluted flashbacks, and cathedral lighting.
	www.asian-movies.dk /shop/productinfo-nocookie.asp?id=1245 (136 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Ashes of Time (1994)
		This World Video release of Ashes of Time is practically unwatchable.
		The sound and color are bad and the subtitles are displayed on a large grey band on the lower part of the screen.
		Ashes Of Time concerns younger versions of the characters in the famous Jin Yong novel The Eagle Shooting Heroes, most particularly its narrator, Ouyang Fong AKA "Malicious West" (Leslie Cheung).
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=5466 (930 words)

	Ashes of Time - Asian DVD Guide Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On that 2 disc set, it has a trailer for Ashes of Time that blows ever DVD out of the water right now.
		I also saw at the hkmania forum that Ashes of Time might have had less than stellar image even at the cinema (Christophe Gans is cited as saying something about the movie looking like a work copy made up from a mixture of 35mm, 16mm and video elements.)
		Time is now: 11th September 2006 - 07:56 PM Invision Power Board v2.1.7 © 2006 IPS, Inc.
	adg.invisionzone.com /index.php?showtopic=969 (1238 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Ashes of Time (1994), Wong Kar-wai, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, dvd review
		Ashes of Time is just a little bit different.
		I've seen Ashes of Time on video twice, and I still have no idea what's going on, but it's a film that I love watching nonetheless.
		This debut at the 4 Star Theatre marks the first time the film has been released theatrically in San Francisco.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /ashestime.shtml (789 words)

	DVD Reviews - Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels & Happy Together
		Maybe it was frustration, or maybe it was just his time, but the door came down and Wong Kar-wai entered the world of filmmaking in the late 1988, with a slap to the collective faces of every cinema lover in the world.
		Speaking of subtitles, they are mostly readable but spelled wrong half the time, and are not in synch.
		I think being a fan of Hong Kong cinema is not as trendy as it used to be, so now is a good time for true fans of cinema in general to take a quick peek at some very well made films.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/wongkarwaiseries.html (2087 words)

	Ashes of Time
		He chose ‘Ashes of Time’, a period swordplay movie.
		This is an ensemble cast, and I find it works much better this time in developing all the characters than ‘Days of Being Wild’.
		‘The Assassin’ and ‘Dragon Inn’ may be good, but ‘Ashes of Time’ is probably the best period swordplay movie to come out in that wave after ‘Once Upon a Time in China’ (here).
	www3.sympatico.ca /patrik/ashesoftime.html (973 words)

	O.F.C.S.: The Online Film Critics Society
		These ideas include a stylish manipulation of time, a fascination with violence, a penchant for tangled romantic relationships and a preference for alienated characters.
		Ashes of Time, Wong offers an elegiac, art house take on the traditional Hong Kong martial arts epic.
		Ashes of Time is “like my whole experience about martial arts movies, the entire genre, so I want the music to be very much like Ennio Morricone.” And Frankie Chan’s score does pay homage to Morricone and highlight the influence that Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns have on this film.
	ofcs.rottentomatoes.com /pages/pr/1990overlooked/ofcs76 (277 words)

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