Sunday, February 1, 1:00 pm
Presented By: Catamount Arts
Sunday, February 1, 1:00 pm
Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Avenue
St. Johnsbury, VT
Admission: FREE!
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 102 minutes
Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
Description:
A defining work of 1990s cinema, Chungking Express captures fleeting connections and urban loneliness through two loosely linked love stories set in Hong Kong. With its dreamy visuals, playful structure, and iconic soundtrack, Wong Kar-Wai’s film is a vibrant exploration of chance encounters, heartbreak, and longing—romantic, restless, and endlessly influential.
560 Railroad Community Artist Tony Hao, a CT-based writer and translator, has selected three films from the Sinophone world (all with English subtitles), and will lead a discussion following each film.
Tony Hao is a CT-based literary translator and writer, and Catamount Arts’ current 560 Railroad Community Artist. He has translated the work of several writers, including Taiwanese novelist Ton Wei-Ger 童偉格, Chinese essayist and poet Xiao Hai 小海, Taiwanese transgender poet and writer Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, and Chinese short story writer Ban Yu 班宇. His works have appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. His debut book-length translation Adrift in the South, a memoir by Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai 小海, is forthcoming in May 2026. His work has been recognized by the Granum Foundation Translation Prize, Art Omi Writers: Translation Lab, the Vermont Studio Center, and others. When he isn’t translating, he runs, cooks, follows sports, and teaches and tutors high school students in creative writing.
Location:
Catamount Arts Center
115 Eastern Avenue
St. Johnsbury, VT
Admission: FREE!
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 102 minutes
Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
Description:
A defining work of 1990s cinema, Chungking Express captures fleeting connections and urban loneliness through two loosely linked love stories set in Hong Kong. With its dreamy visuals, playful structure, and iconic soundtrack, Wong Kar-Wai’s film is a vibrant exploration of chance encounters, heartbreak, and longing—romantic, restless, and endlessly influential.
560 Railroad Community Artist Tony Hao, a CT-based writer and translator, has selected three films from the Sinophone world (all with English subtitles), and will lead a discussion following each film.
Tony Hao is a CT-based literary translator and writer, and Catamount Arts’ current 560 Railroad Community Artist. He has translated the work of several writers, including Taiwanese novelist Ton Wei-Ger 童偉格, Chinese essayist and poet Xiao Hai 小海, Taiwanese transgender poet and writer Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, and Chinese short story writer Ban Yu 班宇. His works have appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. His debut book-length translation Adrift in the South, a memoir by Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai 小海, is forthcoming in May 2026. His work has been recognized by the Granum Foundation Translation Prize, Art Omi Writers: Translation Lab, the Vermont Studio Center, and others. When he isn’t translating, he runs, cooks, follows sports, and teaches and tutors high school students in creative writing.