CHUNGKING EXPRESS

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This screening will have an introduction and post-film discussion by Saint Joseph’s University Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film Gabrielle Miller.

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“Wong Kar-wai is one of the best filmmakers from one of the most significant film movements… And, in my opinion, Chungking Express is his best film. Supposing one plus one still equals two, that makes this one of the best films ever made” – Boston Hassle

The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.

About the Speaker:

Gabrielle Miller is a SAG/AFTRA actress, Film and theatre professor at Saint Joseph’s University, screenwriter and entrepreneur. Her television pilot “9 Lives: chapter one” garnered over 20 awards including Best Pilot, Best Female Director, Best First Time Director and Best Actress. She has her MFA in Acting and Directing from the University of Idaho and studied European Film and Theatre at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. She has a plethora of film and television credits including alongside Eric Roberts in a recent film.