Apologies to star blogger/media person/personality Tom Crampton for displacing his video about printing presses and press freedom from the top of the the Far Eastern Economic Review ( www.feer.com/tales ) page.
But we still love your new hair, Tom, and we had the goods on the Carina-Tony wedding soundtrack (Abba!) courtesy of Wong Kar Wai.
Here is what Colum wrote on the FEER blog:
Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘Bhutan Express’
July 21st, 2008 by admin
Hong Kong actors Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Carina Lau Kar-Ling finally tied the knot earlier today in Bhutan, in a ceremony “directed” by none other than iconic Hong Kong filmmaker, Wong Kar-Wai. The photo below, taken last Friday at the Ugyen Pelri Palace, shows the couple in traditional Bhutanese attire. But as Alexandra Seno explains below, today’s nuptials had all the typical trappings of a WKW movie—right down to the sound track.
Alex Seno told TT:
Music has always been a crucial ingredient to the magic of Cannes-winning Hong Kong art house film director Wong Kar Wai’s celluloid love stories. Think: Astor Piazolla’s cello tango rhythms from “In the Mood for Love,” “California Dreaming” in “Chungking Express.”
At the relatively intimate wedding today at the Uma Paro in Bhutan, the admirably tenacious Hong Kong paparazzi outside may be doing all they can to get pictures of the ceremony and parties (ivory Vera Wang wedding gown chosen by William Chang Suk-Ping), but we can give you more: the sounds of the celebration.
Since signing up as unpaid (and outrageously over qualified) “wedding planner” for the nuptials of Carina and Tony, Wong has been consumed with selecting just the right tunes to set just the right mood. Wong and his regular crew are essentially planning and executing this wedding—running it like one of his movie sets with his usual film cabal.
When it rained during an open-air wedding portrait shoot last Saturday, Wong ordered his regular producer to scout for another “set” immediately. A good thing that the crew were used to the director’s improvisationational working style.
For all the die-hard Wong (or Lau and Leung) fans, here are the songs and artists that the filmmaker and his crew have lined for the wedding:
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
Mendelssohn’s wedding march
Happy Together
Even If
Songs by Sergio Mendez
Songs by Abba
Songs by the Bee Gees
Songs by Stan Getz
Live performances by Faye Wong and Tony Leung
The wedding started today with a traditional tea ceremony for Lau, Leung and their mothers at 10 a.m., followed by the Buddhist blessing with members of the Bhutanese royal family in attendance at 11. Guests then had lunch of Italian food. Tonight’s festivities include a black-tie buffet barbecue dinner.
A DJ from Hong Kong has been brought in for this evening’s dancing as well as a five-piece band directed by Roel Garcia, who did the music for such Wong classics as “Ashes of Time Redux” and “Chungking Express.”
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