Video: My Blueberry Nights trailer

In an earlier post I introduced a series based on exposing and exploring the incestuous relationships between movies and music. As noted, musicians have often made cameo appearances in movies, musical or otherwise. One of my personal favorites is (of course) Jack White's rendition of a kung-fu savvy "King of Rock 'n' Roll" in the 2007 comedy, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. A relentlessly hysterical spoof of pretty much any music bio-pic one could think of. Watch WALK HARD clip "The King" en [...]

Ed. note: It's time for another installment of "VHS Or Beta?", where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies—from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he travels along America's byways with Wong Kar Wai and his first English-language feature, My Blueberry Nights : As an act of full journalistic disclosure, I should mention at the start of this installment of VHS or Beta [...]

Movie: My Blueberry Nights Release Date : May 16, 2007 Country : USA / Hong Kong Director : Kar Wai Wong Starring : Norah Jones, Jude Law Runtime : 90 min. Rating : 4.5 Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it. Wong Kar-Wai is the highly praised Hong Kong director championed by the likes of Quentin Tarantino, the major European film festivals and holds a legendary like status in Asia itself. Wongś ¨Chunking Express" was [...]

Norah Jones can sing, Norah can play piano and punk-rock guitar , and now we know: Norah can act. She's currently starring in My Blueberry Nights alongside Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. She plays disenchanted young woman encountering many different kinds of relationships while crossing the country rather aimlessly. The soundtrack stretches across genres, with Cat Power, Amos Lee, Ry Cooder, Otis Redding, and... Norah Jones appearing. An insteresting side note to it is the EPK Bluenote records put out recently to promote the soundtrack. In [...]

After recieving copious complaints from friends about movies I "forgot" to mention, I've decided to do a sequel. Like I Love The 80s: Part Deux, only, you know, not. Same deal as last time, trying to cast a wide net. 8. IRON MAN This is the main reason for this post. I don't know why, but I forgot about what has the potential to be single, coolest, comic book to movie adaptation ever. Actor

The 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival kicked off today with the world premiere of Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights." Wong Kar Wai is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival, having presided over the jury in last years festival and having his prior film "2046" premier at Cannes in 2004. Wong Kar Wai has [...]