Criterion Collection’s ‘World Of Wong Kar-Wai’ Box Set Captures The Poetic Rapture Of His Liminal Art

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EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Veintimilla (The Baker and the Beauty) and Sebastian Roché (The Man in the High Castle) are set for recurring roles on David E. Kelley’s hit freshman ABC drama series Big Sky. Both will be introduced in the back half of Season 1.

Rebecca Davis editorWong Kar-Wai’s production firm Jet Tone Films has released the documentary short “One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart,” which gathers together new behind-the-scenes footage and deleted scenes that narrowly missed the auteur’s final cuts.Wong narrates the 30-minute film, which premiered at the Hong Kong International Film Festival Friday after a screening of a 4K-restored version of his 1997 film “Happy Together.” The doc was developed to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Jet

We’re only in April, but 2021 has already turned into a big year for filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai. Not only has a number of his films been digitally restored in 4K and added to The Criterion Collection in a recent box set, but this year marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of Jet Tone Films, the filmmaker’s production company.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Angel Olsen has announced a new box set, ‘Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories’, and shared a previously unreleased track – you can listen to ‘It’s Every Season (Whole New Mess)’ below.The box set features Olsen’s two most recent studio albums, 2019’s ‘All Mirrors’ and last year’s ‘Whole New Mess’, as well as a bonus LP and a 40-page book collection which includes unseen photos, handwritten lyrics and original song sketches.‘Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories’ is set for release on May 7

Chinese movie mogul Wang Zhongjun, co-founder of Huayi Brothers Media, has stepped down as chairman of holding company Huayi Tencent Entertainment. Established in 2016, the firm, which is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, has been used by Huayi Brothers, Tencent and its other investors as a vehicle to co-finance international films and buy stakes in companies listed outside China.

Rebecca Davis editorHuayi Brothers Co-Founder and Chairman Wang Zhongjun has resigned from his post as executive chairman of the board at Huayi Tencent Entertainment, the latter company announced Friday.

GOT7’s Jackson Wang has released a heartbreaking video for his new single ‘LMLY’, which stands for ‘Leave Me Loving You’.The video is a sequel to the clip for his 2020 single with Galantis, ‘Pretty Please’, and was scripted by the K-pop idol and co-directed in collaboration with 88rising’s Mamesjao.

Lulu Wang, Olivia Munn, Daniel Dae Kim, Mindy Kaling and more celebrities are speaking out in support of the Asian American community following news of shootings in Atlanta on Tuesday evening that left eight people dead, a majority of them women of Asian descent. The Farewell director Lulu Wang responded to a tweet by former NPR reporter Kat Chow that read "I want to know their names, who and what they loved, the people they had waiting for them at home, everything they hoped for.

Let’s be honest, at this point, Steven Yeun can do no wrong. That’s what happens when you leave one of the biggest TV series in the world (“The Walking Dead”) and then decide to star in three killer movies back-to-back-to-back (“Sorry to Bother You,” “Burning,” and “Minari,” respectively).

Lulu Wang, Olivia Munn, Mindy Kaling and Daniel Dae Kim are among the celebrities who have spoken out in support of the Asian American community following shootings in Atlanta. Eight people were killed in shootings at a number of Georgia massage parlours on Tuesday (16 March), a majority of them women of Asian descent.

Naman Ramachandran A new documentary from Bhutan will share the Himalayan Buddhist kingdom’s unique philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH) with the world.Bhutan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuk came up with the phrase in 1972 when he said that GNH is more important than Gross Domestic Product.

Today is a day that we celebrate the very best in film from the past year, as we all scour the Oscars nominations and figure out which films deserved the praise and which deserved a bit more, perhaps. But today is also a day that we can discuss some previously-released, acclaimed works of cinema that don’t really need to be argued about, as Criterion unveils the June 2021 additions to the Criterion Collection.

Jackson Wang has described his recent collaboration with K-pop veteran Rain as a “full circle” moment in his career.Yesterday, the two former JYP Entertainment artists released their video for the song ‘Magnetic’, which appears on Rain’s first mini-album in four years, ‘PIECES by RAIN’. The visual was written by Wang, who also co-directed it with 88rising’s Mamesjao.The collaboration is a notable milestone in Wang’s burgeoning solo career.

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Little Big Town singers Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild have racked up some big radio hits, but they also acknowledge the existence of systemic sexism in country music.

Over the past few months, many reports, as well as sexual assault survivors, have come forward with their scathing tales of abuse by fashion designer Alexander Wang. Now, the designer has finally released a new statement via IG in response to the allegations that he sexually assaulted multiple people.