SUNDAYS AT THE U WITH MOVIES: “CHUNGKING EXPRESS” (1994)
SUNDAYS AT THE U WITH MOVIES: “CHUNGKING EXPRESS” (1994)
BUY TICKETS HERE You're invited to a screening of Wong Kar Wai's breakthrough 1994 hyper-kinetic tale of romantic longing, "Chungking Express," at 1 p.m. Sunday April 20th. 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 [...]