Cannes Dispatch #1: A Brief History; My Blueberry Nights
“Wong Kar-wai’s flair for visuals and colourful characters grip one, and My Blueberry Nights is by far his most powerful work to date, though there were some moments when I felt that the movie let go my attention. However, My Blueberry Nights has that element of rhapsody and rumination that highlight time, and more specifically lost time,” writes GAUTAMAN BHASKARAN....[Read More]Courtesy of gautamanbhaskaran.com, The Lumière Reader will dispatch Gautaman Bhaskaran’s ‘Out of Cannes’ column over the course of the festival. Also from the French Riviera: at 60, A Brief History, looking back on magic and mirth of Festival de Cannes.
Pineapple Express: The funniest stoner movie I can remember. Seth Rogen's horsepowered performance anchors a consistently amusing flick. George Washington's David Gordon Green ably directs. Rogen effortlessly draws on his natural affability. He tells Lumiere his numerous acting roles aren't hard; generally they are "pretty similar" to his own life: "
