But since watching Wong Kar Wai movies in a theater is like living inside of somebody else’s dream for a little while, the Brattle has brought it back to the big screen. Due to the pandemic, the series ran last December at the Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Virtual Screening Room before being released as a Criterion Collection box set. “ World of Wong Kar Wai” is a years-in-the-making project from Janus Films presenting painstaking new restorations of seven contemporary classics from this most idiosyncratic and influential filmmaker.
His best movies feel like memories of themselves, rhapsodies of regret and lingering visions of the ones that got away. There’s a certain irony in the idea of a Wong Kar Wai retrospective, as so many of his characters are already living in the past.
A still from director Wong Kar Wai's "Chungking Express." (Courtesy Janus Films)
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