WED AUG 30, 2023 7:30 PM The MUBI Podcast Presents CHUNGKING EXPRESS $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | Introduction by the MUBI Podcast’s Rico Gagliano Screening courtesy of Janus Films ‘Friend of the Fest 2023’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: In Cantonese with English subtitles. The whiplash, double-pronged CHUNGKING EXPRESS is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and The Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Hong Kong