{"id":41232,"date":"2019-02-08T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=41232"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:58:10","slug":"love-on-your-menu-chungking-express-on-the-new-criterion-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/08\/love-on-your-menu-chungking-express-on-the-new-criterion-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Love on your menu: CHUNGKING EXPRESS on the new Criterion Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DB here:<\/p>\n

Signed up as a Charter Member of the relaunched Criterion Channel<\/a>? Good. Now you can stream the Movie of the Week<\/a>: Chungking Express<\/em>, one of the favorite films of nearly everybody I know.<\/p>\n

It’s streaming with Tony Rayns’ excellent commentary, personal reflections from Barry Jenkins, and an installment in our series Observations on Film Art.<\/em> Just running the trailer will get you worked up.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t<\/em> signed on and you live in the US or Canada, you should get your free trial\u00a0<\/a>pronto. The 30-day trial period doesn’t even start till the official launch on 8 April. That’s two months off, meaning many more totally free, tightly curated Movies of the Week to come.<\/p>\n

Wonder what next week’s feature will be? Me too. It will drop, as everybody but me now says, on Wednesday. And Chungking<\/em> will vanish. But just for a while, until the full collection bursts on the world in April. Then you can run Chungking Express<\/em> every day if you want. Not the worst plan I’ve heard.<\/p>\n

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Thanks as usual to all the Criterionistas, especially Peter Becker and Kim Hendrickson.<\/p>\n

I wrote a personal note on Chungking Express <\/em><\/a>when it first surfaced on the FilmStruck platform of the Criterion Channel.<\/p>\n

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