Chungking Express

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Two love stories, an expired can of pineapples, and a whole lot of the Mamas and the Papas: It's Wong Kar-Wai's CHUNGKING EXPRESS!!!!!!!

In conjunction with <a href="https://thismuch.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">thismuch.org</a>, an annual short-form writing competition about love, Stray Cat Film Center presents CHUNGKING EXPRESS. Prior to the screening, there will be a brief poetry reading featuring Chloe Thompson and Katie Jones.(description from Criterion)The whiplash, double-pronged CHUNGKING EXPRESS is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. 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 &amp; the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.

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