Sofa Episode 9: The Best Cheesy Pun Movie Titles, Highbrow Activities on Campus, and Guess Which Host is Drunk
April 23, 2008 by ctvsofaSofa Episode 8: The Office Spinoff, The Fate of Ivy League Eggheads in Hollywood, and of course, more!
April 23, 2008 by ctvsofaSofa Episode 7: Hulk Time, Comic Movies, Movies with Symb@ls in Their Titles
April 23, 2008 by ctvsofaFive Days Until Your Head Explodes
April 21, 2008 by ctvsofaThe Baby Mama countdown begins. Everyday on the Sofa Blog from now until the movie comes out. At which point you won’t be able to read this anymore because your head will explode from amazingness. Be careful.
“My Blueberry Nights” Gave Me the Blues
April 9, 2008 by projectfyiSofa Correspondent Ali Khan checked out the new Wong Kar-Wai. Let’s see what he thought!
My Blueberry Nights, the debut English-language feature by Wong Kar-Wai, is sophisticated with technique yet I feel it desperately tries to implement the Kar-Wai famous autuer style into American cinema. The movie is about Elizabeth (Norah Jones, the Grammy award winning singer who is also the daughter of the Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar) who is driven by her quest to understand and later return for love where she wasn’t looking(in a soho cafe) and we travel with her for a year to southern and western locations in the states. This movie reminds me of Wai’s capabilities as a director to incorporate late night eating with love.
ChungKing Express (1994) had a similar story about a late night eatery worker in Hong Kong where My Blueberry Nights has a translucent plot with Jude Law’s performance as a late night café worker in SoHo, NY as I am left to question the conundrum by the overpowering acting by the supporting leads of Natalie Portman, and Rachel Weisz. This is exactly why I feel at times great actresses shouldn’t play the supporting role, and their performace overtakes norah jone’s first performance as an actress. The incredible cinematography techniques used by Darius Khondji, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work in Evita (1994), uses frame rates of over a 100 per second to slow down at such an incredible rate the emotional scenes that capture each detail of the characters reactions in semi-climactic scenes. The Diegetic images(images showing the fictional world that the narrative exists in) of relating blueberry pies with love left more of a repulsive effect than a loving one. I was able to appreciate the star-studded cast that had outstanding performances, and the musical compositions although the weakness of the plot that takes away from its execution in climax leaves you questioning. Kar Wai can still save his legacy when his next film that is a remake of the 1947 film The Lady from Shanghai currently in production releases. Wong Kar Wai is infamous for wearing sunglasses, yet when they are removed it is as dangerous as Cyclops in X-men on a beam rampage. I hope he removes them for his next film and beams america again with his infamous techniques.
REALLY GREAT CONTEST ALERT
April 6, 2008 by ctvsofaHello faithful Sofa viewers,
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Sofa
Sofa Episode 5: The Happening/It’s All Happening Edition!
April 6, 2008 by ctvsofaFeaturing an in-depth breakdown of the trailer for the Sex & the City movie, a discussion of the new show from the creators of Mr. Show, some token mentions of Tina Fey, and lots of great jokes obvi…
The Office Spinoff is a GO.
April 4, 2008 by eblekhterThe NBC line up was announced this week, and boy, were there some surprises. The biggest shock of the bunch is that NBC has greenlit a spinoff of The Office! Although, rumors of such a spinoff have been circulating for several months, I seriously believed them to be just rumors and was totally thrown off by this development. I watch a lot of television, and personally, I believe that The Office is the funniest show currently on television. Its humor, though sometimes outrageous, is very relatable to the everyday lives of American office workers, making it that much more funny. The Office is original; it’s taken television comedy beyond the sitcom formula and laughing tracks. The spinoff will definitely try and do the same kind of thing, but I don’t know if it’ll be able to achieve it. One of my biggest concerns of the spinoff was that it would “steal” a character from the original show to star in the spinoff because part of what makes The Office so incredible is the ensemble. I feared that if The Office were to pull a Grey’s Anatomy and steal away one of the characters, like Private Practice, it would flop. Thankfully though, it’s been confirmed that the show will include new faces and new locations. This, as well as the fact that Greg Daniels will be producing it, makes me feel a little better about the show. Only time will tell if The Office Spinoff will be able to compare to the brilliance of the original and I promise to be open minded and give it a fair chance. Come next February, I really hope I won’t be telling myself: I told you so.
If you want to read more about NBC’s full schedule or The Office Spinoff for next year go here and here.
Posted by Elena Blekhter, Producer
Shows That are Not on CTV
April 1, 2008 by ctvsofa
