Chungking Express
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Chungking Express

Come and fall in love twice-over with Wong Kar Wai's breakout feature, "Chungking Express"

By Stray Cat Film Center

Date and time

Wednesday, May 1 · 7 - 9pm CDT

Location

Stray Cat Film Center

1662 Broadway Boulevard Kansas City, MO 64108

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About this event

  • 2 hours

The whiplash, double-pronged "Chungking Express" is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant 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 and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.

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Stray Cat Film Center

Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run, non-profit micro-cinema. Organized by volunteer programmers, We screen everything from to documentaries to video art to cult films and is open to the entire range of moving image expressions – independent, activist, underground and bizarre. We are a space that supports all of KC’s cinematic communities and celebrates diversity of expression, fun & radical art.

$7