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  Everything Is Cinema

  What starts out as an ethnographic documentary turns into a study of a failing marriage during Covid lockdown…

  
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  Time

  A stylishly melancholic, surprisingly funny elegy to Hong Kong cinema…

  
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  Flowers of Shanghai

  All that glitters is not always gold in the tea rooms of 19^th century Shanghai…

  
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  Fallen Angels

  Wong Kar-wai’s oneiric and vivacious journey to the Hong Kong underworld…

  
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  Time And Tide

  Drama within gunplay within mayhem in Tsui Hark’s early 2000’s actioner…

  
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  2046

  An absolute onslaught of narratives, styles, and structures makes for an infinitely rewarding opus from Wong Kar-wai…

  
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  Happy Together

  Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Leslie Cheung star masterpiece of melancholia…

  
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  In The Mood For Love

  Unrequited love never looked so good in this new version of a timeless classic…

  
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  Giants and Toys

  There’s no honour among thieves or salarymen in 50’s Japan…

  
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  Days of Being Wild

  Wong Kar-wai submerges us in his dream of Hong Kong and its lovers, killers, and lonely hearts…

  
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  Giants and Toys

  A classic critique of capitalism and materialism that has not lost any of its relevance…

  
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  Helter Skelter

  A nightmarish, hallucinogenic exploration of the excesses of the Japanese fashion industry…

  
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  Tropical Malady

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s audacious jump into the dream world is the calling card of a truly unique filmmaker…

  
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  Chungking Express

  Chance encounters in love are never quite as they seem…

  
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  The Paper Tigers

  A crowdfunded kung fu comedy is a revelatory experience that proves the indie scene can produce masterworks…

  
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  Cold Fish

  A typically wild and offbeat take on the serial killer genre from Japanese auteur Sion Sono…

  
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  Fresh Wave 2019: 3 Generations 3 Days

  21 minutes, 3 generations, 3 days, an unforgettable short…