Posts Tagged ‘ My Blueberry Nights ’

Stand and Deliver, Part II

Jul 13th, 2008 | By Rick | Category: Great Clips, Wong Kar Wai

Yesterday, I posted a clip from Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959) that showed the dialog scene from a classic Hollywood perspective. The conversants are established half-facing each other, and after a master shot, the dialog proceeds in shot/reverse-shot fashion, with alternating takes shot over the shoulder of the actors. The lighting is [...]

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My Blueberry Nights

Jul 9th, 2008 | By Rick | Category: Reviews, Wong Kar Wai

OK, let’s get the obvious out of the way: Norah Jones can’t act. She is beautiful, and she can sing like an angel, but she can’t act. She’s inexpressive, a blank canvas, a tabula rasa. And when she is called upon to emote, she’s too obvious, like a kid who’s been [...]

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