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Re: Sight and Sound (2002) Greatest Films Club
Yeah, my point is that these two particular directors have an idiosyncratic sort of appeal that doesn't really work for everyone. The fact that one can be a fan of one and not the other, as our reverse preferences seem to indicate, just illustrates that for me.
I saw Red a really long time ago, and Blue in the only slightly less distant past; never seen White. I'll have to re-visit those at some point. Wong Kar-Wai actually used a piece by Preisner in 2046, from the Decalogue. WKW is undoubtedly a Kieslowski fan.
My least favorite WKW is actually As Tears Go By; it seems like he just had to get a genre movie made (Triad/gangsters, in this case) before he could get into the sort of thing he really wanted to do. Though I do love the "Take My Breath Away" sequence in ATGB, a favorite among WKW fans. The way I look at it, what he really wanted to do was to make an entire movie like that one scene, and he managed to do it the next time out, with Days of Being Wild. I like Fallen Angels OK, but I don't think it's on the level of Chungking Express, which it was spun-off from.
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