REEL ODDITIES: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

February 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2024
Reel Oddities: Valentine Edition
In the Mood for Love
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-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.
Dir: Wong Kar Wai / 2000 / Hong Kong /  98 min

The Perfect Night
Preceding the February 14 Screening of In the Mood for Love
Introduced by Director Isabel Nixon Klein
The Perfect Series saga continues… After narrowly escaping an attack by 1960s housewife Sally Sue, her now ex-fiancé Hans tries to warn her new beau about the dangers that lie before him. Shenanigans, music and murder ensue.
Dir: Isabel Nixon Klein / 2024 / Olympia /  8 min

SCREENING: WED 2/7 7PM; WED 2/14 7PM w/ The Perfect Night; WED 2/21 7PM; WED 2/28 7PM