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June 12, 2006
OLD NEWS FROM FORTISSIMO
This news has a little dust on it, but it's still fascinating and informative and so I'm bringing it to you. Fortissimo Films, the art film distributor/sales agent, is not only opening a New York office but they've signed up with Wong Kar-wai.
There're lots of films controlled by WKW's Jet Tone production company and Fortissimo will help him do something with them. Even as I type, WKW is shooting supplemental footage that will be used on special edition DVDs and in retrospectives of his films.
The list of films already being talked about are:
CHUNGKING EXPRESS
FALLEN ANGELS
HAPPY TOGETHER
EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES - by Jeff Lau
A CHINESE ODYSSEY - by Jeff Lau
FIRST LOVE - by Eric Kot
and BUENOS AIRES ZERO DEGREES
Does this mean that the world finally see a good release of ASHES OF TIME?
June 12, 2006 at 10:45 AM in News | Permalink
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A Chinese Odyssey is awesome good fun
Posted by: JON PAIS | Jun 12, 2006 11:53:18 PM
Ashes of Time may already have a decent release -- TF1 released it last month (under the French title, "Les Cendres du Temps"), but I can't find any reviews. TF1 has done all right by Wong in the past but their DVDs usually don't have English subs.
Posted by: Josh Martin | Jun 13, 2006 4:49:58 PM
Nope, no decent release of ASHES OF TIME, at least not yet, and not by my standards of "decent" - cut and no English subs ≠ decent. Now, there's a newly remastered release of HAPPY TOGETHER in HK that's really expensive and comes in a box that has room for lots of other WKW movies. One of which, logically, ought to be ASHES OF TIME.
From the minds of the posse at Asian DVD Guide:
HT Box Set Thread: http://tinyurl.com/s9gsg
French AOT Thread: http://tinyurl.com/p32nc
Posted by: Rhythm-X | Jun 14, 2006 1:00:45 PM
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