In The Mood For Love

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In the Mood for Love

Author : Tony Rayns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838716387

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Set in Hong Kong, Singapore and Cambodia in the 1960s, Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love – without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are tenants in next-door apartments in Hong Kong who discover that their respective spouses are having an affair. Both of them have promiscuous colleagues at work, but they struggle to make sense of their partners' behaviour – and to control their growing feelings for each other. Hailed by the press as 'the consummate unconsummated love story of the new millennium', this film about desire repressed has become a firmly established classic of the twenty-first century. In his sharp and revealing analysis of In the Mood for Love, Tony Rayns draws on his considerable expertise in East Asian cinema and on his proximity to Wong Kar Wai and his colleagues at Jet Tone during the film's long and complicated genesis. He delivers a personal and highly original commentary on the film and its production, complete with privileged insights into Wong's idiosyncratic working methods and influences. The book also places the film in the context of Wong's other work, with sidelights on its place in Hong Kong cinema as a whole. This special edition features original cover artwork by Jimmy Turrell.

In the Mood for Love

Author : Harper Bliss
Publisher : Ladylit Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789881491022

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In the Mood for Love by Harper Bliss Pdf

This collection contains seven of Harper Bliss’s signature novelettes. Set in locations from the US to Thailand, from Berlin to Tuscany, these stories are packed full of romance and lady love. I STILL REMEMBER Successful news anchor Elise returns to her hometown after running away from a love she couldn’t understand nor act upon twenty years ago. When she bumps into her old best friend Amy, the one she had to get away from, all that was left unspoken bubbles to the surface and they revisit the past in more ways than one. A HIGHER EDUCATION At an economics conference Gail Garvey ends up sharing a room with a teacher she had a crush on twenty years ago. They’re both professors now, and Gail’s crush has long faded, but finding herself in the same room as Professor Joanne Ferguson two nights in a row proves to be more challenging than Gail would like to believe. A HARD DAY’S WORK Jo fancies her straight, married boss Amanda. She’s convinced her crush is a hopeless one, until a performance review changes everything. YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY Rose’s husband died seven years ago, but when she welcomes an unexpected guest in her Tuscan holiday home, she’s forced to remember what instant desire feels like. Desire for a younger woman no less. LEARNING CURVE Ada’s company relocated her to Berlin, provided that she’d take an intensive course in German. It proves to be a steep learning curve, until her teacher Giselle implements some alternative educational methods. THE HONEYMOON A sizzling novelette featuring a couple of newlyweds honeymooning in Phuket. When they encounter a mysterious Asian woman in their beach side resort, they decide to give each other a very special wedding gift. PIANO LESSONS Ruby is finding it hard to get over the break up with her girlfriend, but her piano teacher Jill is not having any of it. After Ruby’s lack of focus makes for another dismal lesson, Jill invites her reluctant student into the home she shares with her partner Charlotte for an afternoon of extreme relaxation, and getting over her ex. At over 75,000 words, this collection is sure to provide some blissful reading.

WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai

Author : Wong Kar Wai,John Powers
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780847846177

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WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai by Wong Kar Wai,John Powers Pdf

The long-awaited retrospective from the internationally renowned film director celebrated for his visually lush and atmospheric films. Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish films that explore—in saturated, cinematic scenes—themes of love, longing, and the burden of memory. His style reveals a fascination with mood and texture, and a sense of place figures prominently. In this volume, the first on his entire body of work, Wong Kar Wai and writer John Powers explore Wong’s complete oeuvre in the locations of some of his most famous scenes. The book is structured as six conversations between Powers and Wong (each in a different locale), including the restaurant where he shot In the Mood for Love and the snack bar where he shot Chungking Express. Discussing each of Wong’s eleven films, the conversations also explore Wong’s trademark themes of time, nostalgia, and beauty, and their roots in his personal life. This first book by Wong Kar Wai, lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs and film stills and featuring an opening critical essay by Powers, WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wei is as evocative as walking into one of Wong’s lush films.

Wong Kar-Wai

Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839021268

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Wong Kar-Wai by Stephen Teo Pdf

This study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date. Teo probes Wong's cinematic and literary influences - from Martin Scorsese to Haruki Murakami - yet shows how Wong transcends them all.

Wong Kar-wai

Author : Peter Brunette
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252095474

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Wong Kar-wai by Peter Brunette Pdf

Wong Kar-Wai traces this immensely exciting director's perennial themes of time, love, and loss, and examines the political implications of his films, especially concerning the handover of former British colony Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. This book is the first in any language to cover all of Wong's work, from his first film, As Tears Go By, to his most recent, the still unreleased 2046. It also includes his best?known, highly honored films, Chungking Express, Happy Together, and above all, In the Mood for Love. Most importantly, Peter Brunette describes the ways in which Wong's supremely visual films attempt to create a new form of cinema by relying on stunning, suggestive visual images and audio tracks to tell their story, rather than on traditional notions of character, dialogue, and plot. The question of Wong Kar-wai's use of genre film techniques in art films is also explored in depth.

In the Mood for Colour

Author : Hans Blomquist
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781788794046

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In the Mood for Colour by Hans Blomquist Pdf

Bring the transformative power of colour into your life with the help of Hans Blomquist, whose inspiring interiors will enable you to find the right colours for your home.

Cult Media

Author : Jonathan Wroot,Andy Willis
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3319636782

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Cult Media by Jonathan Wroot,Andy Willis Pdf

This volume brings together writing on the topic of home media, and in particular releases described as appealing to ‘cult’ fans and audiences. Despite popular assumptions to the contrary, the distributors of physical media maintain a vivid presence in the digital age. Perhaps more so than any other category of film or media, this is especially the case with titles considered ‘cult’ and its related processes of distribution and exhibition. The chapters in this collection chart such uses and definitions of ‘cult’, ranging from home media re-releases to promotional events, film screenings, file-sharing and the exploitation of established fan communities. This book will be of interest to the ever-growing number of academics and research students that are specializing in studies of cult cinema and fan practices, as well as professionals (filmmakers, journalists, promoters) who are familiar with these types of films.

Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997

Author : V. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230245433

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Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997 by V. Lee Pdf

Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule.

Wong Kar-wai

Author : Silver Wai-ming Lee,Micky Lee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496812858

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Wong Kar-wai by Silver Wai-ming Lee,Micky Lee Pdf

Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only makes art for a few high-brow critics. However, Wong's interviews show this Hong Kong auteur is candid about the art of filmmaking, even surprising his interlocutors by suggesting his films are commercial and made for a popular audience. Wong's achievements nevertheless feel like art-house cinema. His third film, Chungking Express, introduced him to a global audience captivated by the quick and quirky editing style. His Cannes award-winning films Happy Together and In the Mood for Love confirmed an audience beyond the greater Chinese market. His latest film, The Grandmaster, depicts the life of a kung fu master by breaking away from the martial arts genre. In each of these films, Wong Kar-wai's signature style--experimental, emotive, character-driven, and timeless--remains apparent throughout. This volume includes interviews that appear in English for the first time, including some that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out of print. The interviews cover every feature film from Wong's debut As Tears Go By to his 2013 The Grandmaster.

I'm In No Mood For Love

Author : Rachel Gibson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061796692

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What is Clare Wingate doing? One minute she's suffering in a pretty-in-pink gown she'll never wear again, and the next thing she knows it's morning . . . and she has the nastiest hangover of her life. To make matters worse, she's wearing nothing but a spritz of Escada and lying next to Sebastian Vaughan . . . her girlhood crush turned sexy, globe-hopping journalist. Somewhere between the toast and the toss of the bouquet she'd gotten herself into a whole lot of trouble. Clare had the right to go wild—after all, she'd been knocked off her dyed-to-match shoes after finding her own fiancé in a compromising position with the washing machine repairman. Clearly her society wedding is off. But Sebastian pushed all the wrong buttons—and some of the right ones, too. Clare is in no mood for love—not even for lust—and wants to forget about Sebastian and his six-pack abs ASAP. But he isn't in the mood to go away, and his kiss is impossible to forget.

Adapted for the Screen

Author : Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824833732

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Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.

Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622095885

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Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

Wong Kar-wai's controversial film, Happy Together, was released in Hong Kong just before the handover of power in 1997. The film shows two Chinese gay men in Buenos Aires and reflects on Hong Kong's past and future by probing masculinity, aggression, identity, and homosexuality. It also gives a reading of Latin America, perhaps as an allegory of Hong Kong as another post-colonial society. Examining one single, memorable, and beautiful film, but placing it in the context of other films by Wong Kar-wai and other Hong Kong directors, this book illustrates the depth, as well as the spectacle and action, that characterizes Hong Kong cinema. Tambling investigates the possibility of seeing Happy Together in terms of 'national allegory', as Fredric Jameson suggests Third World texts should be seen. Alternatively, he emphasizes the fragmentary nature of the film by discussing both its images and its narrative in the light of Borges and Manuel Puig. He also looks at the film's relation to the American road movie and to the history of the tango. He poses questions how emotions are presented in the film (is this a 'nostalgia film'?); whether the masculinity in it should be seen negatively or as signs of a new hopefulness about Hong Kong's future; and whether the film indicates new ways of thinking of gender relationships or sexuality.

Too Much and Not the Mood

Author : Durga Chew-Bose
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443449113

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**A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year** From one of Canada’s most distinctive and intelligent emerging voices, a heartfelt collection of essays in Durga Chew-Bose’s captivating and truly inimitable style. In Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philosophical, and occasionally brooding, thoughts. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture. Reflective and highly astute, Chew-Bose invites readers to join in her search for a clearer understanding of who we are and the world we live in. This is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a young first-generation writer today, shutting out the din in order to find her own voice. Exhibiting the confidence of Lena Dunham, the honesty of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and the extraordinary vision of Zadie Smith, Too Much and Not the Mood is a stunning debut from an author who is sure to become one of this generation’s most esteemed voices.

In the Mood

Author : Laura Bloom
Publisher : Pantera Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925700190

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In the Mood by Laura Bloom Pdf

Robert was surprised when he saw the atom blast on film, the mushroom cloud billowing up to the sky, so peaceful and final-looking. So natural-seeming that this was what would end it. ... ...Home was her, Catherine, in her blue cotton dress, dancing to the radio in the living room, the furniture pushed back against the walls to give her space. Him sitting on one of the chairs against the wall, entranced, not just by the glimpses of thigh and garter belt, her skirt in a perpetual flying ruffle, but her energy, her hips and hands and every part of her so alive. It's February 1946, and Robert Booker is just home from the war. Home is a pretty weatherboard house in Sydney, where his wife, Catherine, is waiting. They haven't seen each for three years, yet they are separated by so much more than time. Robert is haunted by the horrors of what he has seen and done, fighting in the humid jungles of New Guinea, and Catherine is carrying the guilt of her affair with a charismatic US Marine – and other secrets too painful to confront. With so much that's changed between them, can Catherine and Robert find their way back to each other again? Through intimately exploring the experience of one couple, and one war, Laura Bloom powerfully humanises the damage wrought by all wars to people everywhere. Crisply written and dramatic, IN THE MOOD is compelling fiction. - The Age Few books about war have been told from this perspective, which makes Bloom's book both a revelation and essential reading. IN THE MOOD is a tour de force of insightful and concentrated emotional writing. - The Spectator

Millennial Cinema

Author : Amresh Sinha,Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231161930

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Includes bibliographical references and index.