9 response about Cinecast 86 - It Ain’t Easy Being So Right »

1. 

   Just hearing the opening music from In the Mood For Love, I gotta say, Kurt, are you sure that was the song played in My Blueberry Nights?

   Comment by rot — May 13, 2008
2. 

   ok maybe you are right but I could have swore it was music from Kill Bill.

   Will definately need to pick up the soundtrack to My Blueberry Nights:

   1. The Story - Norah Jones
   2. Living Proof - Cat Power
   3. Ely Nevada - Ry Cooder
   4. Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
   5. Looking Back - Ruth Brown
   6. Long Ride - Ry Cooder, My Good Eye
   7. Eyes on the Prize - Mavis Staples
   8. Yumeji’s Theme (Harmonica Version) - Chikara Tsuzuki, Shigeru Umebayashi
   9. Skipping Stone - Amos Lee
   10. Bus Ride - Ry Cooder
   11. Harvest Moon - Cassandra Wilson
   12. Devil’s Highway - Hello Stranger
   13. Pajaros - Gustavo Santaolalla
   14. The Greatest - Cat Power

   The Harvest Moon cover is awesome

   Comment by rot — May 13, 2008
3. 

   Yes. I’ll go to bat any day of the week for Cat Power or Amos Lee (his “Supply and Demand” album was my 2nd favorite record from that year).

   Comment by Andrew James — May 13, 2008
4. 

   Probably should have mentioned that Coppola’s YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH comes out today on DVD. I missed it in the theatres, but am interested in catching up with it on DVD, not the least of which is that Coppola has Tim Roth and Bruno Ganz to work with.

   Comment by Kurt Halfyard — May 13, 2008
5. 

   I am going to catch My Blueberry Nights again, and take the wife as some kind of balance for my bullshit and see if maybe I am wrong about it.

   and I will wait for your recommendation of Youth without Youth before renting it myself… love the premise but the stink on it is palpable.

   Comment by rot — May 13, 2008
6. 

   Meta-wankery (to me anyway) - I really wonder what David Mamet’s opinion is on BF

   

   Comment by Kurt Halfyard — May 13, 2008
7. 

   It’s funny, I don’t remember hearing Yumeji’s Theme during My Blueberry Nights, but I remember seeing the song go by in the credits.

   What a fantastic film…. on of my faves of the year so far.

   Comment by Shannon the Movie Moxie — May 15, 2008
8. 

   Yumeji’s Theme (itself borrowed from a Seijun Suzuki film before IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE used it so ironically) in My Blueberry Nights is slowed down very very much, and a harmonica (I think) is laid over to boot. the notes are the same though, I took me a while to key into it although part of my brain immediately recognized it.

   Comment by Kurt Halfyard — May 15, 2008
9. 

   Shannon - Was it the story, characters, narration of tone that sold you with My Blueberry Nights?

   For me it was the perfect cocktail of acting, emotional tone and visual aesthetic. The usual for wkw actually.

   Comment by Kurt — May 16, 2008

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