Sudden lakes are a surprise -- haunted blue holes, lakes that look shallow but aren't, with occasional strips of sandy beach.
These questions come to haunt "Blue Jasmine," and as the past catches up with the present, they help drive this moving, sometimes funny film toward its shattering end.
This haunted, muted blues becomes redemptively blazing, reaching for and finding something potent in the moment.
But the people you want to watch -- and, above all, listen to -- are the aged sidemen like Peetie Wheatstraw and Dirty Jimmy Scott who haunt vintage blues bars like the Palm Tavern and the Checkerboard Lounge, waiting for those long-ago train whistles to call them home.
And at another of his regular haunts, Blue Ribbon Sushi in SoHo, a server brought him a free plate of fluke sashimi he hadn't requested, as a thank-you.
Harold chose his good friend John Fraser, of Dovetail, to join him at his usual haunt, Blue Ribbon, for some Yuzu Highs and fried chicken before getting a night cap at their favorite bar, Daddy O. Enjoy.
Harold chose his good friend John Fraser, of Dovetail, to join him at his usual haunt, Blue Ribbon, for some Yuzu Highs and fried chicken before getting a nightcap at their favorite bar, Daddy O. Enjoy.
Its songs of quiet desperation brood amid tolling, inexorable guitar riffs haunted by the blues.
Its songs brood amid tolling, inexorable guitar riffs haunted by the blues.
Calla, a trio of Texans transported to New York, plays slow, tolling songs that brood amid inexorable guitar riffs haunted by the blues.
