MPД¬hungking Express is streaming on Criterion Channel. While the minor chords and eye-popping colors of his 2000 In the Mood for Love are cited as his masterpiece, this lower-key effort, and the spontaneous swagger of both camera and performance, put most of American indie romances to shame. Evidence: Wong Kar-WaiвЂ™s effervescent drama Chungking Express, which tells two stories - one starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Faye Wong, the other with Tony Leung and Brigitte Lin - but mostly luxuriates in the feelings conjured by neon lights, bar food, broken hearts, and pop music. Romance and romantic thinking can sound twee, but I assure you, they can still be cool in the right hands.

TEД«eats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest is streaming on Hulu and Amazon Prime. But Beats, Rhymes and Life is a fascinating and revelatory snapshot into the human dynamic behind one of the most versatile and influential hip hop acts to ever grace the mic. The question of, вЂњWill A Tribe Called Quest ever release another album?вЂќ would not be answered for another five years with We Got It from HereвЂ¦ Thank You 4 Your Service, released only a few months following the death of founding member Malik вЂњPhife DawgвЂќ Taylor.

Michael RapaportвЂ™s 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes and Life recounts the legendary career of New York hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, charting the story of the quartetвЂ™s humble beginnings and meteoric success in the wake of such classics as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders to the groupвЂ™s fallout and reconciliation. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest Toussaint EganДЈ0 Days of Night is streaming on Amazon Prime. With brutal tension and cringe-inducing gore, 30 Days of Night is a thrilling fright fest well worth watching. Danny Huston shines as Marlow, the regal and relentless leader of the vampires, as does Josh Hartnett in his starring role as Sheriff Eben Oleson. With the townвЂ™s power cut off and no access to the outside world, the survivors must find a way to fend off their would-be predators until daylight returns.

In the meantime, enjoy the original American trailer, which does little to capture what makes it great (but does feature some hilariously boilerplate explanatory voiceover).Based on Steve Niles and Ben TemplesmithвЂ™s comic series, 30 Days of Night follows the denizens of Alaskan town that are hunted by a ravenous pack of vampires after they discover that the town is plunged into darkness every winter for over a month. We hope youвЂ™ll take some time to watch or rewatch it and join our discussion next week. Yet while heвЂ™s made great films since Chungking Express-some even better than Chungking Express-heвЂ™s never made one thatвЂ™s quite as instantly winning, or such a pleasure to revisit every time. The film helped bring Wong to the front ranks of international directors, where he deservedly remains. But with Chungking Express, Wong found a loose, even zippy approach that captured what it might have been like to be young and in love in the unsure surroundings of early-1990s Hong Kong. In many ways, the two films are more alike than not:В Both are gorgeous and dreamlike tales of fragile hearts. Wong Kar-wai shot it quickly during a production for Ashes Of Time, a long-in-the-making kung-fu epic. Chungking Express caught a lot of people by surprise in 1994 including, in all likelihood, its director.

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