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	Chungking Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chungking Express (Traditional Chinese: 重慶森林; Simplified Chinese: 重庆森林; pinyin: Chóngqìng Sēnlín; literally "Chongqing forest") is a 1994 Hong Kong movie written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong and Valerie Chow.
		The Chinese title translates to "Chungking Forest", referring to the metaphoric concrete jungle of the city, as well as to Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui, where much of the first part of the movie is set.
		Chungking Mansion is very famous with, as Wong observed, "its 200 lodgings, it is a mix of different cultures...it is a legendary place where the relations between the people are very complicated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chungking_Express (1624 words)

	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.
		Chungking Express is full of this kind of random cause and effect.
		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 Express
		Chungking Express struck the nerve of Quentin Tarantino so much that he sought its U.S. release, and created Rolling Thunder Pictures, a distribution company that will release films of Tarantino's choice.
		Chungking Express is a better film than Fireworks, a Japanese film of little emotion, action or interest.
		Though Chungking Express is fun to look at, and is different in its approach to storytelling, there's nothing really groundbreaking or truly satisfying about it.
	www.geocities.com /moviecritic.geo/reviews/c/chungking.html (454 words)

	Chungking Express (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chungking Express operates with a quicksilver, almost effervescent vibe, where chances are found and connections made with one barely noticing.
		Chungking Express seems to tell us that love and its chances could be just around the corner and out of sight.
		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)

	ChungKing Express
		A young woman who works at the Midnight Express, Faye, begins to take an interest in the lonely cop, and goes to his apartment when he is not there, cleaning it and rearranging some of his things.
		The opening sequence of ‘'Chungking Express'’ is interesting to look at as it is very stylistic, and has to give information about a film that is split in half in terms of narrative.
		‘'Chungking Express'’ has a very distinctive visual style, in as much as there are times when it is prominent over the narrative.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/ChungKing.html (1130 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.
		After Chungking Express, Lin (like many HK actresses) married "out" of the movie industry with a relationship with a businessman, in this case one of the founders of the "Espirit" clothing company -- perhaps, not coincendentally, one of the major corporate sponsors of the movie.
		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.
	www.hkfilm.net /chunking.htm (935 words)

	`Chungking Express': An odd bit of Hong Kong filmmaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chungking Express was written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai.
		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)

	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)

	Chungking Express - sianz.INC
		Chungking Express, I just love the angles of the pictures and something about the second picture is that Faye appeared quite early in the first story that if you blinked your eye you might have missed her hugging a enormous Garfield and leaving a toy shop..
		Chungking Express was originally set up as three stories, but the third one had to be cut because of the length of the movie.
		In Chungking Express, Wong Kar-Wai's Hong Kong is a steady state universe where any memories of a private past are altered to fit the city's perpetual present in motion.
	members.tripod.com /sianz/cke.html (5802 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.
		The audience is thus forced to read deeper into the story, which is why some people find 'Chungking Express' incomprehensible, because they do not wish to or cannot, look deeper.
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	Identity and Chungking Express
		However, such is the spontaneous energy felt by the audience that the deeper aspects of the film are often ignored or dismissed.
		Chungking Express is a great film to probe these ideas: WKW warps and expands the ultra-transience of modern HK, where the issue of identity is never clear cut.
		This works in both a personal sense - the roving jungle of urban existence, swamped by the shifting identities of global commerce and fashions; progress which waits for no man - as well as in a national (and political) sense; the backdrop of 1997 certainly adding emphasis and urgency to the idea of belonging.
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	Neil Young's Film Lounge
		But when we signs for Chungking Mansions apartment-block there is no gap between 'Chung' and 'king': presumably this is why the film is almost universally referred to as Chungking Express.
		Chungking Mansions is the residence of lovelorn Cop 223, real name He Zhiwu (Takeshi Kaneshiro), who becomes fixated with the glamorous, enigmatic, unnamed older woman (Brigitte Lin) he meets in a bar.
		Midnight Express is the take-away where free-spirit, twentyish Faye (Faye Wong) works, run by her middle-aged 'cousin' (Chen Jinquan) and regularly visited by another lovelorn Cop, number 633 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai).
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/content/view/77/1 (641 words)

	Amazon.com: Chungking Express: DVD: Brigitte Lin,Tony Leung Chiu Wai,Faye Wong,Takeshi Kaneshiro,Valerie Chow,Chen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		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.
		"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.amazon.com /Chungking-Express-Kar-Wai-Wong/dp/B000065V38 (2665 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.
		The film uses voiceover to express the thoughts of the two male leads, and creates psychoses which Woody Allen would be proud of.
		Chunking Express is in two parts, a structure also used in his later film Fallen Angels (though in the latter through intercutting), featuring the stories of two lovelorn policemen who have, or think they have, been dropped by their girlfriends.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/chungking_express.html (712 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Chungking Express [1995]: DVD: Brigitte Lin,Tony Leung Chiu Wai,Faye Wong,Takeshi Kaneshiro,Valerie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Overall, Chungking Express is a likable, frantic and somewhat off-the-wall (though I hate to use that expression) combination of noir-references, new-wave romance, and an experiment into the way that cinematic narrative can be developed...
		Chungking Express identifies the mixing of cultures in Hong Kong.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Chungking-Express-Brigitte-Lin/dp/B0001XLVZO (2515 words)

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		Chungking Express keeps however a good homogeneity in substance and form, despite the two separated sketches and the use of two Director Of Photography (DOP).
		The Chungking Mansions are buildings in the Tsim Sha Tsui area that correspond to a microcosm equivalent to a miniature Hong-Kong, according to Wong Kar Wai.
		Firstly, he expressed the resentment: he tried to escape from a situation and got stuck (by making a movie that he cares of, but that must make money at the box office).
	hkcinemagic.ifrance.com /siteanglais/apages/achungkingexpress.htm (1668 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Chungking Express
		If Chungking Express were a snake, it would be a boa constrictor.
		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)

	SALON Reviews: Chungking Express, page 2
		he script of "Chungking Express" (which appears to have gone from conception to final form with remarkable rapidity) consists of two consecutive, supposedly mirroring stories about the strange and unhappy love lives of two Hong Kong cops.
		In that regard, "Chungking Express" is like a hyperactive version of Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad," in which immobility is the meaning.
		"Chungking Express" is like a sketch for a film on those themes, not the thing itself.
	www.salon.com /09/reviews/chungking2.html (691 words)

	`Express' Never Lets Up / Too much style almost sinks Wong's comedy
		``Chungking Express'' is an original, yet in its raw energy, as well as in its elliptical depiction of displaced souls, it is also reminiscent of the French New Wave.
		``Chungking Express'' tells two barely related but parallel stories, each about a young policeman coping with a breakup with his girlfriend.
		The mystery woman, who wears a blond wig, sunglasses and a trench coat, is Wong's homage to John Cassavetes' ``Gloria.'' The connection becomes obvious when she whips out a hand cannon and starts using it with the put-upon disgust of a Gena Rowlands.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/03/15/DD72686.DTL (608 words)

	c h u n g k i n g e x p r e s s r e v i e w
		ChungKing Express is an arthouse film from the island of HK, directed by New Wave director Wong Ka Wai.
		ChungKing Express is a modern love tale setted in the contemporary scenes of HK, telling two stories of two night-beat cops.
		Faye is very down-to-earth and cute in the movie, very much like her shy self in real life, and always listening to the Mamas and Papas "California Dreaming." Cop 223 actually has an eye for Faye, but Faye only conerns herself with Cop 633, a regular costumer at the fast-food place too.
	www.wongfaye.org /cke.htm (816 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| Chungking Express (1994) Wong Kar Wai, Brigitte Lin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chungking Express concerns two separate individuals, a young plainclothes Detective name Wu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and a uniform street cop known only as Cop 663 (Tony Leung).
		Chungking Express is very funny at certain spots, heartfelt throughout, and aside from the awkward action scenes, the movie is appropriately labeled a romance.
		Acting in Chungking Express, as usual for a Wong Kar-wai film, is terrific across the board.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/chungkingexpress.htm (825 words)

	DVDBeaver - Chung King Express Review by Gary W. Tooze
		Chung King Express is filled with these rare occasions, so crucial that they are recognized by us the viewer, if not by the characters acting out their own narrative.
		The two stories have a few links; the small Hong Kong snack bar of the second title, and that two of these characters are lovelorn cops, who we know as Badge 663 (Tony Leung) and Badge 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro).
		Badge 223 expresses the innocent, unflagging hope that his breakup with the never seen ex, who we know only as May, is a temporary situation.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/Reviews/cke.htm (795 words)

	Chungking Express - Moviefone
		TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 movies Chungking Express: Wong, himself a star of cinema's future, has already shown that he possesses a uniquely '90s voice, eye and spirit.
		Chungking Express However, there are so many scenes in Chungking Express which stick in your mind -- almost like fleeting images from a dream -- that by the end of the movie,...
		Chungking Express - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/chungking-express/1978/main (168 words)

	Chungking Express
		Wong Kar Wai paints CHUNGKING EXPRESS in broad strokes and creates a movie that is visually stunning.
		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)

	Hong Kong Digital #262: Chungking Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Faye (who is obsessed with The Mamas and the Papas' "California Dreaming," which she plays endlessly at high volume) expresses her affection for 663 in a decidedly original manner: she breaks into and secretly tidies his apartment.
		Criterion released a laserdisc edition of CHUNGKING EXPRESS back in 1997 and, like that large platter release, the Miramax/Rolling Thunder DVD presents the aforementioned longer international version of the film, which includes approximately 4 minutes of material not seen in HK prints.
		Wong made CHUNGKING EXPRESS on the fly, and it is a small picture with a rough-hewn texture that was at least partially by design.
	www.dighkmovies.com /v5/262/262.html (862 words)

	MMI Review: Chungking Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Tarantino¹s new company, Rolling Thunder, chose ³Chungking Express² for its first release, and it looks like they chose wisely.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/chungking.html (333 words)

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