Video: “Ashes of Time Redux” at the New York Film Festival

"It was almost like an odyssey, because we spent five years -- the first few...

“It was almost like an odyssey, because we spent five years — the first few years we had to retrieve material from different parts of the world.” Wearing his signature sunglasses, Wong Kar-wai addressed the press after a New York Film Festival screening of “Ashes of Time Redux,” the restored and recut version of his 1994 martial arts film “Ashes of Time,” starring an unbelievable cast that includes Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin, who also appeared at the press conference. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle shared some memories of the original production, while Wong described visiting various locations around the globe to find prints of the film, including a warehouse owned by a San Francisco theater owner that was “almost like ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

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