From the Ningin blog, by DavidHou on 2008-10-05 03:45:21 (original link)

I tried to depart a little from the traditional martial-arts genre. Instead of treating these characters as heroes, I wanted to see them as ordinary people – at the stage before they became heroes. – Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai’s restored, re-scored, expanded, recolored and re-edited Ashes of Time Redux premiered tonight at the New York Film Festival. Playing before a sold out crowd at the 1,131-seat Ziegfeld Theatre, Wong Kar-wai was joined on stage afterward for Q&A;with the still beautiful actress Brigitte Lin and cinematographer Christopher Doyle.

The acclaimed film has has been digitally colorized from the 1994 print, at times adding beauty to the cinematography, but sometimes too digitally enhanced for some viewers of the original release depending on who you asked at the screening. It seemed everyone was in agreement the subtitles received a nice revision. Regardless, if you’ve only seen this film on DVD, you’re in for a special treat when this story of swordplay and ill fortunes gets a wider theatrical release in the USA on October 10.

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Do theaters normally hold that many people?

I think so. The movie looks cool.

Did you get an autograph? ;D

Is there a trailer we can watch?

Go to the website?

@ Sakura: most typical US movie theaters seat 200-300 people per screen.

@ Niichan: Brigitte Lin’s!

OMG! I remember this movie! I watched so many HK films from the 90’s. I would love to see it again. In my town, it won’t be released. But I want to add it to my dvd collection. I would love to watch it again. Thanks for posting this David! That’s so cool you met Brigette Lin!

This is a really big theater…

How about one for me!?

I thought that 1000 was a lot…

The trailer looks awesome.