Movie Moment for Sunday, March 6, 2022
Just tuned into this movie on regular, over-the-airwaves TV channel 44-2, called Somewhere in the Night and it happened to be right at the beginning of this restaurant scene. The YouTube video should start at the top of the scene: restaurant scene At first I was fascinated by the shot tracking the waiter to the table. It's a (much) shorter version of the kind of scenes people rave about in Goodfellas, the new West Side Story and so forth where the camera takes you all the way down the high school hallway, or all the way from the street through the restaurant and to the table. In this movie, when they get to the table, the four actors at the table eat dinner (or maybe lunch?) as the scene goes on. This also was fascinating. I loved watching them all eat the noodle dishes and then the crunchy fried chow mein noodles, all while the high-stakes dialogue churns along. I once acted in a play, How the Other Half Loves that has a long dinner scene in which I ate meatloaf and slices of a