Romancing in Thin Air (Gao hai ba zhi lian II)

To's work is already so outlandishly stylish it borders on the postmodern even at its most straightforward, but ironically, ROMANCING's breakdown of the barrier between the real world and the populist cinema that subtly informs our pop culture relies on some of his most…

Jake Cole

Watched the video essay special feature on the Radiance disc, "Another Side of Johnnie To". Looks good, not sure about the narrator though.

Sean Gilman

For P. It felt like forever. So long I wandered aimlessly around the forest, shivering among its thickets, cuts and bruises forming, lost with the spins in a fit of confusion as to which way to go, where to turn next, for the sharp chill of the darkness left me cold to the…

Jerry

Action! - Johnnie/Ringo's Hong Kong Actions: In The Mood For King To's Sweeping Realism Johnnie To continues with his mainstream romantic films, this time about a famous actor who ends up finding true love after publicly losing it and falling into both depression and…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Review for InReview Online's Best of the Decade: A Hong Kong movie star played by Louis Koo is jilted at the altar by Gao Yuanyuan, his longtime on and off-screen partner. He drinks his way to the top of the world, somewhere high in the mountains of China called…

Sean Gilman

The story of my life has always been a story of movies. As far back as I can remember I’ve been watching them, to the degree that many of my earliest memories involve movies. My first obsession came from even before that, though — when I was just 2 and a half years old, I…

Sean

One of the most profoundly cathartic and validating works of art I have ever seen. Impossible to explain how much this moved me, all I can say is that it made me want to live a little more. Comfort cinema in the deepest, most transcendent sense.

Shea

like an emotional atomic bomb. cinema as a tool to heal and to guide us towards a better life... johnnie to is the master of masters, unequaled. all the love in the world to this special, special movie.

comrade_yui

the damsel-falling-in-love-with-her-favorite-actor trope? YES please.  •romancing in thin air  •the purple rose of cairo  •mulholland drive  •lost in translation (?)  •persona (?)  •camp rock EDIT: OMG CRITERION’S RELEASING the heroic trio!!!!

Christina