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...Wong Kar Wai also loves Cannes. The Hong Kong writer-director has been here a half-dozen times, including last year's stint as president of the Festival Jury that awards the Palme d'Or on closing night (a week from Sunday). And the Festival likes Wong enough to have chosen his new film, My Blueberry Nights, as the opening night film at a black-tie ceremony later this evening. He'll be there with his star, Norah Jones, the pop singer making her acting debut in his first American movie - a very mixed bag, with some fine scenes...
...know. It's kind of nutty. I got a call that this filmmaker, Wong Kar Wai, wanted to meet with me. So, O.K., I'll have lunch with him, because I thought he wanted music. Then he asked me if I wanted to be in a movie, and I said, "I love film. I'd love to try it, but I don't know if I can act." And he said, "Ah, you'll be fine...
...years later, short films have managed to stay inside the Kodak Theater, and even win over some front-row types. Some 30 abbreviated offerings by such Palme d'Or winners as Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier and Wong Kar Wai will premiere at Cannes this year. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have ordered up several minimovies to play between their gory double-feature Grindhouse, due in April. And Steven Spielberg is executive-producing On the Lot, a Fox show in which aspiring filmmakers will produce a short film from a particular genre each week to compete for a development...
...HARVEY: We snagged the most sought-after title at the American Film Market, which was the Wong Kar Wei movie starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz and Norah Jones. That showed nimbleness. At Toronto, between Penelope and the Vince Vaughn movie, we were right there where...
...that is to sell the film short. Duelist?s hyper-romantic impulses and lush symphonic music, plus the backlighting, the stately swordplay, the fat snowflakes, not to mention more slo-mo shots than in a Wong Kar-wai retrospective - all these effects heroicize the enterprise, making it something to gaze upon but not enter into. Indeed, one doesn?t watch Duelist so much as window-shop for fabulous cinematic fashions. Its art direction and lovely mannequins take film style to the outr? limits...