New York Metropolitans

An Autumn's Tale (1987)
directed by Mabel Cheung
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats

on DVD through University of New Mexico Interlibrary Loan

Rescue from an apartment gas leak, a ride to the station to meet your louse of a boyfriend, late night screenings of "The Beyond" and "The Fly": who better to share it with than the gentle man "with a chin like Richard Gere's"?

If "a country is as good as its people and its people as good as their food", as Chow Yun-fat tells Cherie Chung, then what's nicer than seeing his Figgy drink a can of Coca-Cola next to the bookshelf he made for her Sis 13 in her New York City apartment as an afternoon train rolls by? Heaven is pals (watchband salesman, gambling buds, seagulls on the pier).