THE GRANDMASTER Trailer

The Hong Kong cut of Wong Kar-wai's newest movie runs 130 minutes. The original title is The Grandmasters. This "international" version is 115 minutes and only drops the "s" at the end of the title.

I have an import Blu-ray on its way so that I can watch the intended edit first.

This feels like the good old days, when Harvey Weinstein was re-editing and re-titling Asian martial arts movies for no real good reason, not to mention putting extremely didactic english voiceover on top of the trailer. This newest telling of the Ip Man story starring Tony Leung hits US cinemas on 23 August.

The Daily Grab (21): Craving

I dearly love Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (and Chungking Express, and Days of Being Wild, and...). Not only does the new Blu-ray edition feature HD audio and video, but it also adds a half hour of brand-new interview content featuring the great Tony Rayns, one of the foremost Asian cinema scholars in the West. Review soon.

This grab taken in the middle of a fade to black.