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Time Reviews 2046

PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:21 pm
by dleedlee
Page 3 also describes The Hand, WKW's contribution to Eros. The interview:

Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is a ladies' man. He knows how to attract them and keep them at a distance. Having been burned in an earlier affair, he is loath to reveal to them the ache of lost love at his core. Yet he needs a woman; he seems happy only when he can nod off, in a taxi, on a kind lady's shoulder. He sounds like a weary cynic, but underneath he is like every Wong Kar-wai character: a melancholy romantic. And he has the bruises to prove it...

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/ ... 96,00.html

Time's interview with WKW:
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/ ... 08,00.html

More WKW news

PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:17 pm
by dleedlee
From Monkeypeaches.com:

The Wong Kidman Project Now Has A Title - THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)

September 28, 2004

According to Hong Kong newspaper Oriental Daily, the title or at least the working title of the upcoming Wong Kar-Wai / Nicole Kidman project is The Lady From Shanghai. The story will be set in the 1930's Shanghai, the birth place of Wong Kar-Wai. According to an earlier tidbits, Japanese actor Takeshi Kitano (Zatoichi) has also been mentioned as the candidate for playing the "bad guy". Chang Suk-Ping, the art director and costume designer for most of Wong's films, has arrived in the States to work on the character of Nicole Kidman. Shooting will start in February, most like in Shanghai.