Programmed December 2025

Wong Kar Wai’s Cinema

As his unmissable television epic Blossoms Shanghai comes to the Criterion Channel, immerse yourself in the woozy world of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai, whose lush visuals, swooning soundtracks, and wistful romanticism have made him one of contemporary cinema’s defining artists. Working with key collaborators like actors Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, celebrated cinematographer Christopher Doyle, and virtuoso editor and production and costume designer William Chang Suk Ping, Wong has created some of cinema’s most rapturous, stylistically daring explorations of alienation, memory, and longing. From the soulful science-fiction romance 2046 to the dazzlingly stylized kung fu epic The Grandmaster , the films collected here are an invitation to the sublime cinematic cosmos of a true visionary.