Dates and Times
- Friday, Jul 4, 2025
- Saturday, Jul 5, 2025
- Sunday, Jul 6, 2025
- Monday, Jul 7, 2025
- Tuesday, Jul 8, 2025
- Wednesday, Jul 9, 2025
- Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
Details
25th Anniversary
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) [花樣年華]
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite — until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar-wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR/PROD Wong Kar-wai. Hong Kong, 2000, color, 98 min. In Cantonese and Shanghainese with English subtitles. RATED PG
This 4K digital restoration was undertaken from the 35mm original camera negative by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with Jet Tone Films, L’Immagine Ritrovata, One Cool and Robert Mackenzie Sound. Supervised and approved by Wong Kar-wai.
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001
Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE was expanded into a standalone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third — intended as the “dessert,” as Wong Kar-wai has put it — was, until now, only screened during his masterclass at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in wide release for the first time, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations on a miniature canvas — with IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Maggie Cheung Man-yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry — evoking the mystery of transient, unexpected connections in the modern city through his inimitable romantic touch. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR/PROD Wong Kar-wai. Hong Kong, 2001, color, 9 min. In Cantonese and Shanghainese with English subtitles. NOT RATED
