Blue, White, Red: Three Colors by Krzysztof Kieslowski (Criterion Collection) - DVD

Seven-disc set includes As Tears Go By (1988)The directorial debut of filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, this crime drama blends what would become his trademark lyricism and romance with the Hong Kong action style. Tough Triad hood Wah (Andy Lau) finds himself torn between loyalty to his trouble-prone pal and partner Fly (Jacky Cheung) and his attraction to ailing cousin Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who offers Wah a way out of his dead-end life. 102 min. In Cantonese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NRC/Rtg Days Of Being Wild (1991)Leslie Cheung is Yuddy, a handsome womanizer in 1960s Hong Kong who reserves his true feelings for the birth mother he never knew. As Yuddy searches for his mother, he woos and abandons a beautiful shopgirl (Maggie Cheung), setting in motion a chain of dramatic confrontations. Writer/director Wong Kar-Wai's emotional character study also stars Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung. 89 min. In Cantonese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NRC/Rtg Chungking Express (1994)At once funny and touching, this comedy/drama of life, love, and take-out food in contemporary Hong Kong follows the barely-connected romances of two city policemen. One man (Takeshi Kaneshiro) pines for his long-gone girlfriend while meeting a mysterious woman in a bar, the other (Tony Leung) becomes the object of obsession for a gamine sandwich shop worker (Faye Wong). Brigitte Lin, Valerie Chow co-star; written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai. 102 min. In Chinese with English subtitles. C/Rtg PG-13C/Rtg Fallen Angels (1995)Considered by many to be director Wong Kar-Wai's masterpiece, this unconventional film intertwines two tragic tales of love and redemption a woman in love with a contract killer, and a mute ex-convict who finds himself involved in an awkward romance with a girl named Cherry. Stars Leon Lai Ming, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Michele Reis. 97 min. In Chinese with English subtitles. C/Rtg NRC/Rtg

Limited 15 BR disc set. All thirty-nine films from the French cinema icon including essential classics, shorts, documentaries, and multimedia works, together for the first time. A founder of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnès Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her. In an abundant career in which she never stopped expanding the notion of what a movie can be, Varda forged a unique cinematic vocabulary that frequently blurs the boundaries between narrative and documentary, and entwines loving portraits of her friends, her family, and her own inner world with a social consciousness that was closely attuned to the 1960s counterculture, the women's liberation movement, the plight of the poor and socially marginalized, and the ecology of our planet.

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