Norah Jones Is Sweet as Pie in My Blueberry Nights

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
Running Time 90 minutes
Written by
Wong Kar Wai and Lawrence Block
Directed by
Wong Kar Wai
Starring
Natalie Portman, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz

Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights, from a screenplay by Wong and Lawrence Block, from a story by Wong, marks Wong’s Read More

Even Sean Penn Can’t Save King’s

The best thing about last week’s Toronto International Film Festival was its reputation as a showcase for unveiling all of the big (and occasionally important) movies and performances you will see in the coming movie season. From Heath Ledger as a heroin addict in Candy, Julie Christie as a woman wasting away from Alzheimer’s in Read More

My Wife’s Hairdresser Turns the Tables on George Clooney

When last I visited the subject, my wife had dismissed my criticisms of George Clooney’s political movies, saying I was being mean-spirited. Then fate rallied to my cause. My wife went to the hairdresser and told him about her soft spot for Clooney—and he took my side, and changed her mind. You might say Read More

The Blue-Eyed Predators

Entourage star Adrian Grenier’s mom Karesse was on the phone, talking about her son’s striking eye color. “I think it runs in our family,” said Ms. Grenier, a longtime New Yorker and vice president at Corcoran. “I guess his eyes change with what he’s wearing. Sometimes they look green, sometimes they look gray, sometimes they Read More

What Bai Ling Does

The actress Bai Ling was in town for three days to do a fashion shoot for Saks Fifth Avenue. She’s got a reputation as a party girl; people ask, “Exactly what does Bai Ling do ?” (For starters, she plays a lesbian fashion designer in Spike Lee’s new movie, She Hate Me , opening in Read More

Spielberg Captures the Little Boy Lost

All may seem lost in the current trash explosion of summer movies, but be patient–help is on the way. Like a welcome St. Bernard delivering a flask of brandy to snowbound blizzard survivors, Steven Spielberg has saved us from a daunting avalanche of summer junk films with Artificial Intelligence (henceforth entered into the cinema lexicon Read More

Where Are the Men of My Dreams?

Most women I know think Johnny Depp has about as much sex appeal as a China doll or a Siamese cat-too

pretty, too passive. It’s male reviewers who’ve gone ga-ga over him as the

hippie pusher in Blow , rhapsodizing

over his delicate features and limp blond tresses. And of the exquisite

transvestite prostitute he Read More

Agnès Varda Combs France, Armed With a Digital Camera

Agnès Varda’s The

Gleaners and I belongs to that genre of nonfiction film in which the French

excel: the first-person philosophical essay. Ms. Varda has been a gleaner all

throughout her 46-year career in film, in the sense that she’s been collecting

or discovering (facts, information, etc.) gradually, bit by bit. What she

collects in Read More