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Hua yang nian hua = In the mood for love / Block 2 Pictures Inc., Paradis Films present a Jet Tone Films production ; produced, written, and directed by Wong Kar-wai.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2904D | Criterion Collection | (container)CC2904D-1 | Criterion Collection | (disc 1)CC2904D-2 | Criterion Collection | (disc 2)Language: Chinese Original language: Chinese Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 147.Publisher: [Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681434759
  • 168143475X
  • 9786317300859
  • 6317300852
Other title:
  • In the mood for love
Uniform titles:
  • Container of (expression): Hua yang nian hua (Motion picture). English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. The featured film; Deleted scenes with commentary by Wong Kar-wai; The music of "In the mood for love," an interactive essay; Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong Kar-wai (approximately 3 min.) -- Disc 2. @ In the mood for love (approximately 51 min.); Two interviews with Wong Kar-wei at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001; 2000 Toronto International Film Festival press conference; Hong Kong, 1960s [interactive essay]; Promotional materials; Photo gallery; The searcher: Wong Kar-wai [interactive essay]; Biographies/filmographies about the cast or crew
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee Ping-Bing [sic] ; editor, William Chang Suk-Ping ; original music, Michael Galasso ; production designer, William Chang Suk-Ping .
Awards:
  • Cannes Film Festival, 2000: Best Actor (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung), Technical Grand Prize (Christopher Doyle, Ping Bin Lee & William Chang)
  • Best Actor (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung), Best Actress (Maggie Cheung), Best Cinematography (Christopher Doyle, Ping Bin Lee)
  • Best Actor (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung), Best Actress (Maggie Cheung), Best Film Editing (William Chang), Best Art Direction (William Chang), Best Costume & Make Up Design, (William Chang)
Cast: Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Siu Ping Lam, Cheung Tung Joe, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chin, Chan Man-Lei, Koo Kam-Wah, Chin Tsi-ang.Summary: In 1962, Chow Mo-wan, chief editor of a local Hong Kong daily newspaper, and Su Li-zhen, a secretary in an export firm, move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite, until they discover that their spouses are having an affair. These two lonely people then discover a strong bond in each other, and recover the intimacy they have lost in their marriages.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD New WORLD IN THE M Available 33111010005508
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Two neighbors, a woman and a man, form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

DVD, region 1 NTSC, widescreen (1.66:1); Dolby Audio 5.1 surround; color.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

In Cantonese and Shanghainese with optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.

Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Siu Ping Lam, Cheung Tung Joe, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chin, Chan Man-Lei, Koo Kam-Wah, Chin Tsi-ang.

Director of photography, Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee Ping-Bing [sic] ; editor, William Chang Suk-Ping ; original music, Michael Galasso ; production designer, William Chang Suk-Ping .

Statement of responsibility, cast and crew list from English subtitles.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.

"This digital transfer was created from the 35 mm interpositive. The mix for the 5.0 soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the DA-88"-- Insert.

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and brief language.

In 1962, Chow Mo-wan, chief editor of a local Hong Kong daily newspaper, and Su Li-zhen, a secretary in an export firm, move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite, until they discover that their spouses are having an affair. These two lonely people then discover a strong bond in each other, and recover the intimacy they have lost in their marriages.

Disc 1. The featured film; Deleted scenes with commentary by Wong Kar-wai; The music of "In the mood for love," an interactive essay; Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong Kar-wai (approximately 3 min.) -- Disc 2. @ In the mood for love (approximately 51 min.); Two interviews with Wong Kar-wei at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001; 2000 Toronto International Film Festival press conference; Hong Kong, 1960s [interactive essay]; Promotional materials; Photo gallery; The searcher: Wong Kar-wai [interactive essay]; Biographies/filmographies about the cast or crew

Special features: Disc 1. Three sound track options-Dolby surround 2.0, Dolby digital surround 5.0, or Music and effects track; Deleted scenes with commentary by Wong Kar-wai; About the music of "In the mood for love," presented in an interactive essay by Joanna Lee, augmented with links directly to the musical cues, and statements by composer Michael Galasso and director Kar-wai Wong; Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film with a montage of archival images created from old nitrate films by Kar-wai Wong -- Disc 2. @ In the mood for love / Block 2 Pictures present a Jet Tones Films production ; produced, written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai (2001) [Wong Kar-wai's documentary on the making of the film]; Two interviews with Wong Kar-wei at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, conducted by film critics Michael Ciment and Hubert Niogret on May 21st (approximately 22 min.), and a "cinema lesson" hosted by Gilles Ciment on May 18th (approximately 16 min.); 2000 Toronto International Film Festival press conference, moderated by Robert Gray, with stars Maggie Cheung Man-yuk and Tony Leung Chiu-wai (approximately 44 min.); Interactive essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti, illuminating the film's unique 1960's Hong Kong setting; Promotional materials, including an interactive essay of unused art and concepts, poster designs, TV spots (approximately 30 seconds each) and theatrical trailers (approximately 2 min. each), and a "behind-the-scenes" electronic press kit (approximately 18 min.); Photo gallery; The searcher: Wong Kar-wai [interactive essay]; Biographies/filmographies about the cast or crew; "Haunted heart" essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson in container.

Cannes Film Festival, 2000: Best Actor (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung), Technical Grand Prize (Christopher Doyle, Ping Bin Lee & William Chang)

Best Actor (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung), Best Actress (Maggie Cheung), Best Cinematography (Christopher Doyle, Ping Bin Lee)

Best Actor (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung), Best Actress (Maggie Cheung), Best Film Editing (William Chang), Best Art Direction (William Chang), Best Costume & Make Up Design, (William Chang)

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