Bargain Bin Film School: CHUNGKING EXPRESS!

1662 Broadway Boulevard,Kansas City MO 64108

25 August, 2021

Description

The only film school that costs $5 kicks off with a 90's heartsick classic CHUNGKING EXPRESS! Film school is expensive. That's why Stray Cat Film Center started BARGAIN BIN FILM SCHOOL, which isn't accredited, and hosted by someone who never went to film school. But we still show movies, so there's that. The whiplash, double-pronged "Chungking Express" is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing. Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run, non-profit micro-cinema. Organized by volunteer programmers, We screen everything from to documentaries to video art to cult films and is open to the entire range of moving image expressions – independent, activist, underground and bizarre. We are a space that supports all of KC’s cinematic communities and celebrates diversity of expression, fun & radical art.