Happy Hog Rot

The title of this post comes from my niece’s description upon her first viewing today.  My artist friend Roy took this photograph of — from left to right — my father, my mother and me in this foggy-noir vision in 1977 and sent it to me 46 years later.

(photo by Roy Rico, 1977)

Continuing (see more) my recent rediscovery of the “Fallen Angels” film, something first seen in 1995:

NOTE: I stumbled across this film (and its predecessor “Chungking Express”, also directed by Wong Kar-wai) in a deep late-night dive into the MAX (formerly HBO Max) online streaming archives.

This 1995 Hong Kong film is one of my visual favorites.  Shot entirely on an extra-wide lens with lots of handheld camera movement, blur and extreme closeups.  Christopher Doyle with Chan Kwok-Hung did the cinematography; direction and writing was by Wong Kar-wai.   Here is a stack of a few screen captures, translated to black and white.