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WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai
Kar-Wai Wong
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Description for WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 200 colour images. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254. Weight in Grams: 567.
Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish films that explore-in saturated, cinematic scenes-themes of love, longing, and the burden of memory. His style reveals a fascination with mood and texture, and a sense of place figures prominently. In this volume, the first on his entire body of work, Wong Kar Wai and writer John Powers explore Wong's complete oeuvre in the locations of some of his most famous scenes. The book is structured as six conversations between Powers and Wong (each in a different locale), including the restaurant where he shot In the Mood for Love ... Read more
Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish films that explore-in saturated, cinematic scenes-themes of love, longing, and the burden of memory. His style reveals a fascination with mood and texture, and a sense of place figures prominently. In this volume, the first on his entire body of work, Wong Kar Wai and writer John Powers explore Wong's complete oeuvre in the locations of some of his most famous scenes. The book is structured as six conversations between Powers and Wong (each in a different locale), including the restaurant where he shot In the Mood for Love ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
2148g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847846177
SKU
V9780847846177
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About Kar-Wai Wong
John Powers is a writer and film critic. Powers covers film and politics for Vogue and Vogue.com and is the pop-culture critic and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Harper's, The Nation, Gourmet, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and L.A. Weekly, where he spent twelve years as a ... Read more
Reviews for WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai
The highlight of [WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wei] for me is the superbly gorgeous photographs and film stills, some 250 in total, all neatly collected in this beautiful hard cover volume. . . the huge collection of film stills and photographs alone is worth the price of the book; the conversations with WKW give the reader additional insights ... Read more