In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai
In the Mood for Love: The Films of Wong Kar Wai
January 9–February 28, 2026
A retrospective of the films of influential Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai, who combines neo-Expressionist cinematography, richly textured production design, and elliptical narrative structures to explore the existential complexities of change, desire, memory, love, friendship, and self-realization.
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Wong Kar Wai: In the Mood for Love, 2000
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Wong Kar Wai: Happy Together, 1997
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Wong Kar Wai: Chungking Express, 1994
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Wong Kar Wai: The Grandmaster, 2013
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Wong Kar Wai: Days of Being Wild, 1990
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Past Films
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 20004K Digital Restoration, 25th Anniversary Edition
Also screens on Friday, January 30 (with an introduction by Daniel O’Neill) and Saturday, February 14 on 35mm (without the short film).
Friday, January 9 7 PMIntroduced by Weihong BaoView DetailsThis twenty-first-century classic set in the early 1960s distills the essence of romance and melancholy, with gorgeous neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it.
As Tears Go By
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 19884K Digital Restoration
Saturday, January 10 6:30 PMView DetailsDescribed by Wong Kar Wai as “a tragic study of little people in a big city,” his first feature provided enough fistfights and street battles to please audiences while debuting the mood-drenched atmospherics and unabashed romanticism that would define his career.
Days of Being Wild
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 19904K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Sunday, February 22 (without an introduction).
Sunday, January 11 7 PMIntroduced by Andrew F. JonesView DetailsA haunting paean to memory, love, and longing, set during a long and sweltering Hong Kong summer, Wong Kar Wai’s first collaboration with cinematographer Christopher Doyle was a winner of five Hong Kong Film Awards.
Chungking Express
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 19944K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Saturday, February 28 (without an introduction).
Sunday, January 18 7 PMIntroduced by Weihong BaoView DetailsFilmed in the middle of the making of Ashes of Time, Chungking Express is a cop movie and a mesmerizing jolt of Hong Kong’s energy, romance, and style, framed by Christopher Doyle’s lyrically kinetic cinematography.
Ashes of Time Redux
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 1994/2008Friday, January 23 7 PMView DetailsFeaturing a who’s who of Hong Kong superstars, Wong Kar Wai’s dreamy take on the martial arts genre (choreographed by the legendary Sammo Hung), follows a desert loner who connects swordsmen to vengeance seekers, looking for either blood or love.
Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong, 19954K Digital Restoration
Saturday, January 24 6:30 PMView DetailsIn this ode to nocturnal Hong Kong, a disillusioned contract killer falls for his partner. “A pyrotechnical wonder about mystery, solitude, and the irrational love of movies” (J. Hoberman), Fallen Angels “takes every risk known to filmmaking, and succeeds triumphantly” (Sight and Sound).
Happy Together
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 19974K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Friday, February 13 (with an introduction by Iggy Cortez).
Sunday, January 25 7 PMIntroduced by Daniel O’NeillView DetailsHong Kong superstars Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai play expat lovers adrift in Buenos Aires. Simultaneously bruising and yearning, Happy Together is “a take-no-prisoners movie that’s the very antithesis of sentimental gay love stories” (Kenneth Turan).
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 20004K Digital Restoration, 25th Anniversary Edition
Also screens on Friday, January 9 (with an introduction by Weihong Bao) and Saturday, February 14 on 35mm (without the short film).
Friday, January 30 4 PMIntroduced by Daniel O’NeillView DetailsThis twenty-first-century classic set in the early 1960s distills the essence of romance and melancholy, with gorgeous neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it.
The Hand
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 20044K Digital Restoration
Saturday, January 31 7 PMView DetailsArguably Wong Kar Wai’s forgotten masterpiece, The Hand is a key bridge between In the Mood for Love and 2046 that weaves desire, longing, and the melancholy of unattainable beauty into a concise pattern. Preceded by I Travelled 9000 km to Give It to You.
2046
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 20044K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Friday, February 27 (without an introduction).
Sunday, February 1 6:30 PMIntroduced by Iggy CortezView Details2046 “echoes” (in Wong Kar Wai’s preferred term) In the Mood For Love’s writer protagonist (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) three years on, now working on an erotic story, set in the year 2046, about a place where people lose themselves in memories.
Happy Together
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 19974K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Sunday, January 25 (with an introduction by Daniel O’Neill).
Friday, February 13 7 PMIntroduced by Iggy CortezView DetailsHong Kong superstars Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai play expat lovers adrift in Buenos Aires. Simultaneously bruising and yearning, Happy Together is “a take-no-prisoners movie that’s the very antithesis of sentimental gay love stories” (Kenneth Turan).
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 2000Also screens in a 4K digital restoration on Friday, January 9 (with an introduction by Weihong Bao) & Friday, January 30 (with an introduction by Daniel O’Neill).
Saturday, February 14 7 PMView DetailsThis twenty-first-century classic set in the early 1960s distills the essence of romance and melancholy, with gorgeous neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it.
My Blueberry Nights
Wong Kar Wai
United States, 2007Sunday, February 15 7:15 PMView DetailsSinger Norah Jones headlines Wong Kar Wai’s English-language debut, which depicts a heartbroken singer on a road trip across America and the other lost souls—Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, and Natalie Portman among them—she encounters along the way.
The Grandmaster
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 2013Saturday, February 21 7 PMView DetailsWong Kar Wai’s big-budget salute to the golden age of Chinese martial arts stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai as the legendary Ip Man (Bruce Lee’s mentor), attempting to unite several martial arts factions in a Republican China under threat from Japanese invasion.
Days of Being Wild
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 19904K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Sunday, January 11 (with an introduction).
Sunday, February 22 7 PMView DetailsA haunting paean to memory, love, and longing, set during a long and sweltering Hong Kong summer, Wong Kar Wai’s first collaboration with cinematographer Christopher Doyle was a winner of five Hong Kong Film Awards.
2046
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 20044K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Sunday, February 1 (with an introduction).
Friday, February 27 4 PMView Details2046 “echoes” (in Wong Kar Wai’s preferred term) In the Mood For Love’s writer protagonist (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) three years on, now working on an erotic story, set in the year 2046, about a place where people lose themselves in memories.
Chungking Express
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 19944K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Sunday, January 18 (with an introduction).
Saturday, February 28 1:30 PMView DetailsFilmed in the middle of the making of Ashes of Time, Chungking Express is a cop movie and a mesmerizing jolt of Hong Kong’s energy, romance, and style, framed by Christopher Doyle’s lyrically kinetic cinematography.