Chinese Box

The world is changing around the characters in 'Chinese Box'. The screen time focuses on the six months between the New Year 1997 and the end of the British rule in Hong Kong. It's also the time that is left for... Full review

For starters, it would be fair to say that I have seen this movie at least ten times. I was never bored... In fact, the magical atmosphere of the movie makes it beautiful to watch, and makes you enjoy every minute... Full review

I don't know why, but people on imdb and elsewhere have been very critical of this film. Personally, as someone living in Hong Kong, I think it is both a well made and important film. At the end, the analogy of... Full review

This is, without a doubt, one of the most hauntingly beautiful works of cinematography ever made. The story is sublime - yet powerful. This is one of the only films I have ever viewed that left me in tears... the emotional... Full review

I understand what they were going for with this, but somehow it failed to move me very much. The artfulness is enjoyable, but for some reason, perhaps the acting or the perennially bouncing camera, I never was released into flowing with... Full review

I have seen this film three times now and it just seems to get better. Gong Li and Jeremy Irons were fabulous along with Maggie Cheung who played a fascinating character. The street scenes I thought really enhanced the ambience of... Full review

This is the first time I watched a movie and thought that it had all the perfect subtleties and symbolism of a book. The characters were both real and yet surreal enough that you can see that every character interaction was... Full review

I don't know if Wayne Wang is into photography or painting as a hobby, but just like his last two films, SMOKE and BLUE IN THE FACE, this movie reminded me of a mosaic or a photo album. I can see... Full review

In either case, the message is more worthy of a fortune cookie than a feature-length movie:.... ... Full Review

Overall, Chinese Box has to be considered a failure, simply because it achieves so few of its own clearly implied goals. Yet it's a failure that bodes well for Wang's future work. ... Full Review

Sometimes the film screams its premise:....The editing and cinematography is as chaotic and charismatic as the city it captures.....Jeremy Irons, looking increasingly gaunt, is at his best when driven and destroyed by his obsessions....Salsa artist Ruben Blades is enjoyable as a vagabond photojournalist bunking with John..... ... Full Review

In all this interaction, Wang and his colleagues, who include his awesomely talented cinematographer Vilko Filac, who incorporates great documentary-like shots of actual events, charge "Chinese Box" with ambiguity and emotion about Hong Kong's past, present and future. ... Full Review

Like the other better bits of the film, however, he serves as more of a background piece to the less than involving central plot. If you or someone in your home wishes to see this film, you may want to take a closer look at the content to determine if it's appropriate. ... Full Review

The summer heat calls for cooler clothes, but it's not slowing down the second Saturday Wynwood and Design District Gallery Walk. Here are some show highlights: ? ... Full Article

S04E10 ) "It's always something." - Charlie Great episode! I've always wondered when Don's team would encounter a situation right in their own building. While this wasn't on the grand scale that I imagined, this was still pretty damn good. ... Full Article

Progress was steady on the Hong Kong set of Chinese Box, the first English-language film for Asian star Gong Li, who speaks only Mandarin. But despite the best efforts of her language coach, Gong could not pronounce the line, "Is... ... Full Article

Sporting a warm-looking image, the picture features a bit of occasional grain, but otherwise is sharp with solid color reproduction. Offering in Dolby Digital 2.0 vs. the now standard 5.1, the audio sounds rather flat (from front to back) although... ... Full Article

Quite possibly the finest Chinese-born actress of the last twenty years, Gong Li has proven time and again that she's the best of the best. ... Full Article