Pop This! Podcast Episode 265: Chungking Express with Chelsea Birks

Jan 20, 2021

Summary:

"Love you for 10,000 years." This week The Cinematheque's Chelsea Birks joins us to talk about Wong Kar-Wai's offbeat crime thriller/rom-com Chungking Express. Also discussed: Into Thin Air, vision boards, and what it means to be disruptively cute.

 

Show notes:

 

Buy Chinese joss paper (KK Discount)

 

The Cinematheque/World of Wong Kar-Wai 

 

Chelsea Birks at the Cinematheque

 

Chungking Express movie review (Roger Ebert)

 

Recommendations:

Andrea W.:  Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (book and audiobook) 

Andrea G.:  Nothing But Thirty (YouTube) or by subscription on Rakuten Viki  

Lisa:  Pretend It's A City (Netflix)

Chelsea: Happy Together (movie), Into Thin Air (book)

Music credits:

"Flutterbee" by Podington Bear
From Free Music Archive 
CC BY 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

 

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