Pop This! Podcast Episode 265: Chungking Express with Chelsea Birks

Summary: "Love you for 10,000 years." This week The Cinematheque's Chelsea Birks joins us to talk about Wong Kar-Wai's offbeat crime thriller/rom-com Chungking Express. Also discussed: Into Thin Air, vision boards, and what it means to be disruptively cute.   Show notes:   Buy Chinese joss paper (KK Discount)   The Cinematheque/World of Wong Kar-Wai    Chelsea Birks at the Cinematheque   Chungking Express movie review (Roger Ebert)  

Recommendations: Andrea W.:  Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (book and audiobook)  Andrea G.:  Nothing But Thirty (YouTube) or by subscription on Rakuten Viki  

Lisa:  Pretend It's A City (Netflix) Chelsea: Happy Together (movie), Into Thin Air (book)

Music credits:

"Flutterbee" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive  CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

 

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Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

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