My Blueberry Nights was originally supposed to open on Valentine's Day (which would have been perfect), and I did a retrospective on Wong's work on February 14 in anticipation of the film's opening.
Thank the cinematic gods for Star Wars diva Natalie Portman. Even though Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai evidently has a major crush on Norah Jones' face in My Blueberry Nights, it's Portman who ...
We've been following Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights since it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last year. A new full-length trailer has debuted online and really needs to be watched. There is a ...
Lovely girl, Norah Jones. That sultry voice, armfuls of Grammys, a multi-platinum debut album that produced the ubiquitous hit “Don’t Know Why.” But for all her charms and obvious talent, Jones seems ...
Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai has made some of the smartest, most moving and tactilely gorgeous tales of romantic dislocation ever put on film. His first American movie, “My Blueberry Nights,” is not ...
The road to romantic recovery is meandering, far-flung and thousands of miles long in “My Blueberry Nights,” Wong Kar Wai’s first English-language film. Norah Jones, in her bland screen debut, plays a ...
As much a trifle as its title suggests, “My Blueberry Nights” sees Hong Kong stylist Wong Kar Wai applying his characteristic visual and thematic doodles to a wispy story of lovelorn Yanks. With pop ...
Wong Kar Wai is one of today’s most original and visually unique directors. His highly stylized, non-linear storytelling is more like experiencing a dream than watching a film. He seeks to communicate ...
Nothing truly profound gets discovered, nor does this film mark a career breakthrough for Wong Kar Wai despite the shift in language and locale. The director is chasing a mood here, a mood, an ...
Singer Norah Jones makes a marvelous transition from the sultry vocalist with the smoky, sexy voice to an admirably understated but stellar debut acting performance as Elizabeth in Wong Kar-wai’s new ...
Watching Marilyn Monroe in Cinemascope, a critic once wrote, is “like being smothered in baked Alaska.” Reading that as a teenager raised some thrilling questions: Is that good or bad? What is “baked ...