The Director's Director: the New York Times Magazine on Wong Kar-wai, in what is a wonderfully long and cogent look at the man and his career:

"Like the inhabitants of Garcia Marquez's Macondo or Balzac's Paris, Wong's characters turn out to inhabit a dense overlapping universe in a fantastic chain of desire, rejection and loss. ''In the process of making this film,'' Wong e-mailed me not long ago from the editing room, ''I never thought I wouldn't complete it. Sometimes I was tempted to look for an easy way out.'' Now, the burden of the past -- not just Chow Mo-wan's, but Wong Kar-wai's as well -- has been lifted, and Wong himself can perhaps move on."

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Also brought up: what 2046 was, and then wasn't, and then was again; Tony Leung's ability to decipher Wong Kar-wai's handwriting and what it means for his fellow actors; that Nicole Kidman thing gets more credence; how he and Chris Doyle fell in, then out, then in, and now out again; and lastly, what his future holds in America. (!)