By Scarlet Cheng Ten years ago, the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai went to retrieve original negatives of one of his early films from a lab going bust. He was startled to find reels of that martial arts film, "Ashes of Time," made only four years earlier, already disintegrating.

By MAL VINCENT By Mal Vincent The Virginian-Pilot Searching for honky-tonk blues in bars from New York to Memphis to Nevada, "My Blueberry Nights" comes up with no more than a bland and pointless wanderlust. Sit through this without nodding and you're a better man than I, Gunga Din.

By CHRISTOPHER SCHOBERT Wong Kar Wai is the world's greatest living director, period. OK, that's one man's opinion, but I have no doubt about it.

By Rafer Guzman, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Apr.

PARIS (Reuters) - Director Wong Kar-Wai will head the jury for this year's Cannes Film Festival, making him the first Chinese chairman of the panel in the event's history, organisers said on Wednesday.