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	Chungking Express . Tucson Weekly . 06-06-96
		Chungking Express is the first of his films to get an American release and it's a yummy little cupcake--sweet without being sentimental, a pleasure to look at and packaged in bite-sized pieces.
		As the two lovesick cops struggle to understand why love is fickle--why a woman could crave chef salad one day and fish and chips the next (go figure)--they make the unusual move of turning to inanimate objects to explain their lives, rather than, say, humans.
		Chungking Express has two, and the second is much longer, which is nice, because it's more interesting.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/c/chungkingexpress_f.html (765 words)

	CHUNGKING - LoveToKnow Article on CHUNGKING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The city was opened to foreign trade by convention with the British government in 1891, with the proviso, however, that foreign steamers should not be at liberty to trade there until Chinese-owned steamers had succeeded in ascending the river.
		This restriction was abolished by the Japanese treaty of 1895, which declared Chungking open on the same terms as other ports.
		The population of Ch~ungking, including the city of Kiangpei on the opposite bank of the Kialing river, is about 300,000.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CH_UNGK_ING.htm (2688 words)

	Chungking on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chungking - We Travel Fast (Tummy Touch Records TUCH094CD); Rock and Pop.
		A woman burdened with luggage walks in front of the Chungking Mansions building on Nathan Road in Hong Kong, China.
		One of the many interesting signs inside the Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong, China.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-C1hungkin.asp (399 words)

	`Chungking Express': An odd bit of Hong Kong filmmaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first part, Chungking Mansions, is named for a huge building in the heart of Hong Kong.
		Part II deals with cops and the Chungking Express, a fast-food snack bar in the Mansions where the police get pizza at all hours.
		Everybody in Chungking Express reads the letter, which the flight attendant left along with the key to 633's apartment.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/features/96/03/29/chungking.html (566 words)

	Chungking Express Review - HellNinjaCommando.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When his ex-girlfriend drops a breakup letter for him with his apartment key by the stand, she infiltrates his apartment, trying to remove reminders of his ex-girlfriend while pretending to be his girlfriend herself.
		With all the different intricacies of the characters and the various points about life and love that are made, Chungking Express is a movie that begs to be seen multiple times.
		Chungking Express is one of the great HK classics for good reason.
	www.hellninjacommando.net /movie/reviews/chungkingexpress.htm (807 words)

	Government (from Chungking) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Chungking's municipal government is part of the hierarchical structure of the Chinese government—and the parallel structure of the Chinese Communist Party—that extends from the national organization, through the provincial apparatus, to the municipal and, ultimately, neighbourhood levels.
		The principal responsibilities of the Chungking Municipal People's…
		Chungking was opened to British trade in 1890, but navigational difficulties on the Yangtze delayed steamer traffic for more than a decade.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-61322?tocId=61322 (840 words)

	Chungking Express (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Chungking Express, the standard genre character is fleshed out and humanized, and their inner struggles take on tremendous meaning.
		Chungking Express operates with a quicksilver, almost effervescent vibe, where chances are found and connections made with one barely noticing.
		Chungking Express was released theatrically in the United States by Miramax and Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/chungking_express.htm (1038 words)

	Groupstores - DVD Hyper Store Chungking Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chungking Express is a high-energy exploration of human emotion, a story of love, obsession, and longing told in a frenetic, woozily modern, aesthetic blur.
		Infused with cultural icons and references, teeming with modernity and breathy energy, Chungking Express is a successfully artful attempt at harnessing the complexities of everyday life, and a completely straightforward film that is somehow endlessly aesthetic.
		Like a sweet dream half-remembered, "Chungking Express" wavers on the back of your consciousness, seducing you into its semi-fantasy/semi-honest world of the chance of romance, and the necessity of proximity (0.01 of a centimeter is the distance of attraction) to filling an empty heart.
	dvdhyperstore.groupstores.com /DVD/Genres/Action_and_Adventure/Hong_Kong_Action/Store-ATVPDKIKX0DER/Item-B000065V38.aspx (1820 words)

	SALON Reviews: Chungking Express, page 2
		Meanwhile, a mysterious woman in a blonde wig and sunglasses is running a heroin-smuggling scheme out of the fabled high-rise known as Chungking Mansions, a multicultural Tower of Babel in Hong Kong's Tsimshatsui district.
		In that regard, "Chungking Express" is like a hyperactive version of Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad," in which immobility is the meaning.
		But if Kar-Wai is somehow trying to make a connection between his film's blurred, Francis Bacon-like imagery (which wonderfully captures the speed and chaos of city life, particularly the anonymous Brownian motion of crowds) and the nature of love and memory, he left out too many steps in between.
	www.salon.com /09/reviews/chungking2.html (691 words)

	Chungking Express
		Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) always meets his girlfriend May outside the Chungking Express at the end of his shift, but when she doesn’t show and starts avoiding him it is obvious he has been dumped.
		The two meet in a bar and Cop 223 decides she is the new love of his life, but we all know it’s never that easy.
		However, she decides to move on and the only way he can deal with it is to project his despair onto the inanimate contents of his flat.
	www.geocities.com /saakfbi/chungking.html (551 words)

	Chungking Express
		Most movies, you will get such a linear view, but in "Chungking Express" you get a perspective(omniscient?) view of life(it's not even a story!) in that world, as well as four main characters who are very well-fleshed out.
		But if we strip away all the adornments like what "Chungking Express" does, we are forced to examine the film in greater detail and thus gain greater satisfaction from watching it.
		There are strong and recurring themes about love and loniness in the film, yet they are only presented in an abstract manner, through the thoughts and actions of the characters.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/8998/cke.html (1163 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Chungking Express
		Faye Wong as an actress is totally engaging and totally believable in this role, and it's really a shame that she hasn't been in anything else (as far as we can tell).
		Chungking Express is largely a movie for people who love moviemaking.
		The camera moves with the moods of its subjects, dancing with Faye as she works at the counter, or slowing to a leisurely pan as 688 watches the pedestrians walk past in the evening.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/chungking-express.html (947 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Chungking Express
		Chungking Mansions becomes a House of Fiction, with Wong dropping us into the centre of two stories that happen to touch on each other.
		Chungking Express is partly about Asian fantasies of America, with one of its characters, played by singer-turned-actress Faye Wong, obsessively listening to a CD of California Dreamin' and another popular star, Brigitte Lin, dressed as a generic femme fatale in raincoat, blonde wig and shades.
		Chungking Express has made Wong a name to drop internationally, partly because of its accessible appeal to cosmopolitan pop culture, partly because it is the first film to be distributed in the US by Rolling Thunder, Miramax's new outlet for Quentin Tarantino's personal selections.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,4267,558510,00.html (1162 words)

	Chungking Express
		Chungking Express was actually done during the editing of Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time, as Wong was having "editor's block" and needed something to cleanse his pallette.
		Even though Chungking Express was a success with both critics and fans, Faye decided to keep concentrating on her musical career and did not make another movie until 2000's Okinowa Rendevous.
		Like Brigitte, she has a pretty icy relationship with the formal press (especially after their reaction to her and young HK teen heart-throb Nicholas Tse's realtionship after Faye had broke up with her husband), but is considered to be extremely friendly to her fans.
	www.hkfilm.net /chunking.htm (935 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Chungking Express
		If lured to Chungking Express by the dashing title, the hardcore stunt freaks will end up in the same position as the boxing fans in The Magic Christian who are outraged by the pugilists kissing in the ring--and sickened by the lack of blood.
		Chungking Express arrives mainly on the say-so of Quentin Tarantino, who loves it enough to import it under the aegis of his Rolling Thunder film company.
		When Chungking Express starts to falter, the mulling over the principle that "fate rules the universe" become too obvious--this idea is as mulled-out at this point as "love rules the universe." Even so, Wai's movie has a sleek, original look.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.28.96/chungking-9613.html (722 words)

	DVD Times - Chungking Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In their own eccentric way, the stories that make up Chungking Express perfectly capture the fickleness of relationships, how people cope and move on and how chance and coincidence play a large part in the way that people who normally pass each other on the street everyday can suddenly connect in unexpected ways.
		A lot of the success of the Chungking Express must be therefore be attributed to the almost perfect cast who all deliver charismatic and sympathetic performances that capture the essence of these characters and the lives they lead.
		Looking back at Chungking Express and it’s equally fresh and exciting follow-up Fallen Angels and comparing it to the lukewarm reception accorded to 2046 at Cannes, you can’t help think that it might be time for the Wong Kar-Wai to find a new way of revitalising his filmmaking energies.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=11949 (1494 words)

	Chungking Express
		What Chungking Express does have is loads of energy and a gorgeous visual style that never gets in the way of engaging with the charming characters.
		Chungking Express is an innovative film, a truly modern exercise of straightforward storytelling with whimsical composition techniques.
		"Chungking Express" is a fine introduction to his work, showcasing his subtle love stories, use of atmosphere and disorientating techniques, such as multiple-languages and film manipulation.
	www.dvdvan.com /info/B000065V38/Chungking_Express.html (1885 words)

	Industry (from Chungking) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As early as the middle of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) workshops for spinning, weaving, silk reeling, and brewing were established in Chungking.
		By 1905 Chungking had spinning and weaving mills, silk-reeling mills, and glassmaking and cigarette plants.
		More results on "Industry (from Chungking)" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-61318?tocId=61318 (738 words)

	Review: Chungking Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Not only are director John Woo and actor Jackie Chan both releasing English-language films early in 1996 (Broken Arrow and Rumble in the Bronx, respectively), but the number of Hong Kong titles obtaining widespread American distribution is on the upswing.
		Two of those films, Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, are being released by Miramax under Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder imprint.
		By filming Chungking Express in such rich, vibrant manner, the director uses visual images to underscore his themes.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/chungking.html (682 words)

	Asian Entertainment Forum! -> Chungking Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chungking Express was made during a break from post-production on Ashes Of Time, as Wong Kar-Wai needed to distance himself from that troublesome project for a while to get his bearings and recharge his batteries.
		Chungking Express definitely feels like pop-cinema, but has more than enough artistic ambition in it too...
		Chungking Express is surely one of the most imaginative, unique and influential films of the 1990's, and one of the most enjoyable.
	www.m-dream.co.uk /forums/index.php?showtopic=734 (792 words)

	Hong Kong : Hotels : Guest Houses \| Frommers.com
		I stayed at Chungking Mansion on my first trip to Hong Kong in 1983, living in a neon-colored cell that was furnished with two sagging beds, a night table, and closet.
		Still, Chungking is not the kind of place you'd want to recommend to anyone uninitiated in the seamier side of travel.
		Chungking Mansion contains approximately 100 guesthouses, divided into five separate blocks, from A Block to E Block.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/hongkong/0078024490.html (692 words)

	Chungking Express
		She adds fish to his fish tank, changes worn out towels, and pretends she is his girlfriend.
		CHUNGKING EXPRESS is the movie that introduced many in America to Wong Kar Wai and is the first movie from Quentin Tarrantino's Rolling Thunder label.
		The laser disc of CHUNGKING EXPRESS is the international print of the movie and has the original soundtrack.
	www.loveandbullets.com /chungkingxpress.htm (878 words)

	Amazon.com: Chungking Express (1996): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chungking is also the backpacker ghetto of Kowloon: guesthouses offer rooms as cheap as $10 a night, and the loose, chaotic atmosphere is appealing to the more adventurous traveler.
		Of the two stories, only the first has any relation with the Chungking Mansions: a hard-luck dame scours the sleazy corridors for drug-mules, and I must say that the general ambience of the Mansions is faithfully captured.
		The second story occurs in Kowloon and on the Island, and is connected to the first by one chance encounter (~a brilliant means of transitioning chapters) and the underlying themes of loneliness, disconnection and desire.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000065V38?v=glance (3306 words)

	Chungking - We Travel Fast album mix Streams
		We Travel Fast' by Chungking is a record that epitomises Tummy Touch's seven year quest for top class heartfelt and downbeat music.
		No guest vocalists here - in the grand scheme of tings, the three amigos of Chungking are unique within their broad genre, being A-Real-Live-Band with all the tensions and elations that go with such close-up and personal relationships.
		There's more than something for everyone in the Chungking sound, and while you're busy being smitten by that exceptional voice, you won't realise that there's a little giggle or a dark underside creeping up that'll grab you later when you least expect it.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/home.nsf/webpages/chungkingx27x06x03 (383 words)

	EUFS: Chungking Express
		Chungking Express was the first of Wong Kar Wais’s films to gain international plaudits but was actually made as a cinematic exercise to help him regain some perspective in the middle of editing a huge Hong Kong epic- Ashes of Time.
		These actors bring a heart and soul to a film which relies on our empathy with the characters to turn their self-pity into the undying love it always feels like to the person involved.
		This is the film by Hong Kong's Wong Kar Wai which, although not his first major film in the West (having been producing films for the previous five years including the notable Days of Being Wild), was the seminal film which launched his career here.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/chungking_express.html (712 words)

	Wong Kar-wai
		Reminiscent of the female leads in Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, Su Li-zhen (unbeknownst to Chow) visits his apartment in Singapore and fetishes over his belongings, lying on the bed and taking a solitary drag from one of his cigarettes.
		The song not only allows her to transcend her spatial and temporal boundaries and "represents her state of mind but also emphasizes her as a subject who prefers music to words as a way of expression and communication".
		Chungking Express articulates this mode with the accelerated passing of clouds and Cop #633's (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) hastened running.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/wong.html (4047 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Chungking Express [1995]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In one, a cop who's been recently dumped by his girlfriend becomes obsessed with the expiry dates on cans of pineapple; he's constantly distracted as he tries to track down a drug dealer in a blonde wig (played by Brigitte Lin, best known from Swordsman II and The Bride with White Hair).
		The film is interesting because of the use of effects Wong Kar-wai uses in each of the two stories within the film because the effects are different, almost making it two seperate films (in my opinion).
		Chungking Express identifies the mixing of cultures in Hong Kong.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001XLVZO (1256 words)

	Chungking Expresss
		Chungking Express is a quirky romantic comedy about chance encounters, lost opportunities, and the loneliness of city life where people never seem to communicate with each other directly.
		In the first sequence, most of the action takes place at a fast food stand called Chungking Express and little police-related activity is shown except for some choreographed shootouts.
		Chungking Express will take you wherever you want to go and it is a giddy ride -- full of style, substance, and self-reflective humor.
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ReviewsChungkingExpress.html (473 words)

	MMI Review: Chungking Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It¹s split into two stories, about a pair of cops who have been dumped by their girlfriends, and the measures they take to get over it.
		³Chungking Express² was put together in less than three months, and yet it still maintains a strong impression of Hong Kong with and without the glitter.
		As Woo is famous for his ballet-like action sequences, and Chan is famous for doing his own stunts, Wong is becoming famous for using a kaleidoscopic visual style and a cast of anti-heroes to build a complex storyline.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/chungking.html (333 words)

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