We are joined by Michael Patrick Jann, film and television writer/director and member of The State to discuss his personal pick: Wong Kar-wai’s frenetic romantic masterpiece Chungking Express.  Two stories, each with a lovesick cop (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung) and a self-possessed woman (Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong) navigating Hong Kong and exploring themes of love, heartbreak, street food, and obsession.  Funny, adorable, charming, tender, and sexy - our protagonists pursue meaningful if momentary connections in the alienating modern world.  But, like, in a gorgeous and experimentally shot kind of way.

Check out Michael’s awesome new podcast Michael Patrick Jann Can’t Direct Traffic: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-patrick-jann-cant-direct-traffic/id1507058852

If you would like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing the three (!) films of Jean Cocteau’s decades-spanning “Orphic Trilogy”: The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1960).