Sentences with phrase «wai as»

Zhang Guoli joked that it only took 30 days, someone had to thank Wong Kar - wai as normally it might take 3 months.

Chang Chen described his impression of Wong Kar - wai as whiskey.

The Cosgrove Ice Shelf doesn't provide major drainage today for WAIS as it did earlier in the Holocene epoch, but it still has lessons to teach scientists about how outlet glaciers can react when exposed to warmer deep water, she added.

Not exact matches

According to a leaked online photo, Hong Kong stars such as Tony Leung Chiu - wai and Wallace Chung have registered for a chance to buy property in this project.

The WAIS is of great interest to researchers as two of its largest glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, are draining into the sea and contributing to sea - level rise.

They describe the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) as having experienced significant and sustained ice loss until 7,500 years ago, driven by warm water incursions.

This effect is particularly apparent in parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), long regarded as the more vulnerable part of the continent to climate change.

«The value of the WAIS Divide core as a high - resolution climate record is clear in these latest results and is another reward for the eight - year effort to obtain it.»

One such ice core, known as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) core was drilled to a depth of more than two miles (3,405 meters), and much of it was analyzed in the DRI Ultra-Trace Laboratory for more than 30 different elements and chemical species.

That information will feed into models that tell us how the WAIS will fare in the next 100 years and whether its glaciers are capable of a massive speedup, as some people fear.

One afternoon I sit in a cramped office as Tulaczyk and Pettersson browse satellite images of the WAIS.

The ice cores pulled up at WAIS will be dated by counting back these seasonal layers as if they were tree rings.

The WAIS rests on bedrock as deep as two kilometers underwater.

The warming of the WAIS is most worrisome (at least for this century) because it's going to disintegrate long before the East Antarctic Ice Sheet does «'' since WAIS appears to be melting from underneath (i.e. the water is warming, too), and since, as I wrote in the «high water» part of my book, the WAIS is inherently less stable:

In a Wong Kar - wai movie, say, such lavish design will mirror or counterpoint emotion; here, in the absence of any emotion whatsoever, it comes across as affectation at best, desperation at worst.

And Scorsese was undoubtedly a key stylistic influence for two of the most direct precedents and palpable influences (John Woo's The Killer and Wong Kar - wai's As Tears Go By) for the film he himself has ended up remaking.

For every success of the scale of John Woo (Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face / Off, Mission: Impossible II, Windtalkers and Paycheck), there are mixed reactions as seen with Wong Kar - wai (My Blueberry Nights), and failures as demonstrated by Lau Wai - keung (The Flock).

It's a cautionary tale of collective malpractice and personal greed all converging at a moment which helped set about the global economic downturn, and the production design (by regular Wong Kar - wai collaborator William Chang) opts to remove all walls from the aesthetic equation as a way to emphasise that, even though it's a culture which thrives on secrets and subterfuge, there really is nowhere to hide your dirty laundry.

Considered one of the greatest films of the 21st century so far, Wong Kar - wai's In the Mood for Love is, as its title suggests, also a remarkable mediation on love and pains one goes through to catch up for missed moments.

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A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).

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Or perhaps sometimes it's even the sleight of the camera, a stand - in for the tangible male gaze, as we watch the sway of hips from behind float sinuously in a floral qipao worn by Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar - wai's masterpiece In The Mood For Love.

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For a film mainly guided, stylistically, by feeling more than by thought, Wong Kar - wai's In the Mood for Love opens rather pragmatically: A simple exchange in an apartment hallway between a landlord and her two prospective tenants, Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) and Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), introduces the principal elements of what is, in essence, a straightforward story of star - crossed lovers and their unconsummated relationship — a romance thwarted as much by tragic circumstance as by the story's central cinematic contrivance.

Chow Yun - fat, at this time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.

Plus, the two films make total sense as a double - bill, both of them playful, youthful riffs on the mystery genre: where Chen's frisky, jewel - toned romantic caper comedy prompts thoughts of Stanley Donen dancing with Wong Kar - wai, Katz quietly clothes the ghosts of Raymond Chandler and Arthur Conan Doyle in dirty jeans and doleful wit.

While, as always, there were many worthwhile films by filmmakers new and old, two of the finest were by bona fide auteurs: Wong Kar - wai's The Grandmaster and Lav Diaz's Norte, the End of History.

The beauty of this character study lies in intimate particularities: those of its internally riven, love - starved protagonist, Chiron, certainly, but also those of Jenkins's own tender, sensual gaze, coloured by such plainly cherished influences as Wong Kar - wai and Claire Denis.

Final Victory was written by Wong Kar - wai, one of the last screenplays he wrote before his 1988 directorial debut As Tears Go By, and in this intersection of genre film and full - blown romance, it is consistent with his later works, where the primal DNA of films like Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels and even Chungking Express can be found in Hong Kong cop / gangster sagas (As Tears Go By is explicitly a Triad film).

With highly anticipated 2007 films by Hou Hsiao - hsein, Wong Kar - wai, Jia Zhang - ke, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bela Tarr and other End Of Cinema favorites yet to be released in this country, as well as such well - regarded films as 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, Silent Light and Persepolis by filmmakers I'm unfamiliar with, there's no reason to expect this list to be anything close to final.

Between this and the balanced approach Tsui gives to the woman's point of view in many of his romantic films (Working Class, The Lovers, Love in the Time of Twilight, Green Snake, etc) as well as the brilliant job he and Carina Lau do in re-envisioning the notorious Empress Wu in the Detective Dee films, I wonder if Tsui should be getting more credit for progressiveness in his depictions of women, especially relative to such macho directors as Woo, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Ringo Lam, Wong Kar - wai and others of that generation.

Tony Leung: known as «Big Tony,» Tony Leung Kar - fai is not to be confused with Wong Kar Wai perennial Tony Leung Chiu - wai (known as «Little Tony»).

As with the watch and clock that figure in the early meetings between Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild, time itself becomes a tool of mutual seduction, the minute hand of a timepiece serving as a kind of Cupid's arroAs with the watch and clock that figure in the early meetings between Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild, time itself becomes a tool of mutual seduction, the minute hand of a timepiece serving as a kind of Cupid's arroas a kind of Cupid's arrow.

Here the effect is at times unsettling: nearly all of the characters have something to hide as well as something to brag about, and, as in a Wong Kar - wai film, each is briefly allowed to become a first - person narrator.

Christopher Doyle is one of the world's most recognizable cinematographers, whose work in Hong Kong with directors such as Edward Yang, Patrick Tam, Stanley Kwan and especially Wong Kar - wai gave him international renown.

If you think there's wiggle room here, take note: Because Colin Firth and Morgan Freeman are still solidly in this race, even though Tom Ford's embarrassing impersonation of Wong Kar - wai throughout A Single Man and Clint Eastwood's dully exploitative pushing of a Mandela - as - Obama message in his elegantly composed Afterschool Special Invictus didn't do either actor any favors, it's probably unlikely that Viggo Mortensen will sneak in for The Road, which has unfairly gotten less love this award season than those two films.

Wong Kar - wai said, «Film is the same as kung fu, it's about the word «believe».

Wong Kar - wai re-edited the film, the storytelling order and structure were adjusted anew as he completed a new film with a more outstanding theme and a more smooth flowing story.

As for Tony Leung again losing in the Best Actor category, Wong Kar - wai said that without the two Grandmasters Leung and Chang Chen, the film's brilliance would not have been the same.

«I believe that Wilson Yip and Wong Kar - wai's versions will be very different as they have different strengths and skills in moviemaking,» Leung said.

As for memorable scenes, they seemed to be Wong Kar - wai's salute to his own classic films «In The Mood For Love» and Fallen Angels».

Tony Leung Chiu - wai and Zhang Ziyi walked the red carpet hand in hand as they were welcomed with cheers and applause.

What You Need To Know: A notoriously slow and deliberate filmmaker and editor, who tends to write his films as he is shooting them (must be nice), Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar - wai is one of the most world - renowned international directors, but this will be his first film since his poorly received 2007 English - language debut, «My Blueberry Nights.»

The film is a biopic on Bruce Lee «s mentor, Yip Man, and production has been underway since last December with a cast consisting of Tony Leung Chiu - wai in the title role, Song Hye - kyo as his wife, with Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Benshan, Julian Cheun Chi - lam and Chang Chenand rounding out the cast.

On the day of the event, Chang Chen even revealed that director Wong Kar - wai would often have inspirations out of the blue, as he kept adding in these new ideas to the film.

The Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong Ltd has picked Wong Kar - wai «s «The Grandmaster «as Hong Kong's representative at the Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category.

Since 1990, Leung has appeared in Wong Kar - wai's movies such as «Days of Being Wild», «Ashes of Time», «Chungking Express», «Happy Together», «In the Mood for Love» and «2046 ′.

Wong Kar - wai explained that he already had the idea for the film as early as 1989.

Yang Yi's hotel room is 2046, as in the Wong Kar - wai film, whose «Chungking Express» Xu and Yang Yi watched as college students.