![]() ![]() ![]() Having technical issues? Visit our FAQ page here. It was supervised and approved by Wong Kar Wai. This 4K digital restoration was undertaken from the 35mm original camera negative by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata and Jet Tone. 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. 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. In Chungking Express, Wong Kar-wai employs the theme to build a dream-like logic in the film, giving the viewer a sense of uncanny similarity in a bustling Hong Kong where so many of the faces that pass on the street are ones our characters will never see again. 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. The double is a classic cinema trope used most famously by Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo. Through our Virtual Screening Room, you can rent films curated by the Coolidge team, while helping to support the Coolidge during this unprecedented time. ![]()
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