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New Asian DVD Releases: Lust, Caution and Triangle
Ang Lee’s World War II-era Shanghai drama “Lust, Caution” and the Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, and Ringo Lam collaboration “Triangle” leads this week’s new Asian DVD releases. The street date for the erotically charged “Lust, Caution” is December 21, 2007, but you can pre-order your copy now. “Triangle”, meanwhile, is due out now.
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Lust Caution Rules Golden Horse Awards
Taiwan is lustful for Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution”. The World War II-era drama starring Tony Leung and Tang Wei was the big winner at the 2007 Golden Horse awards, the most prestigious Chinese-language film awards in that part of the world. Besides nabbing Lee the Outstanding Taiwanese filmmaker of the year, it also landed star [...]
December 8th, 2007 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreChinese Man Sues Over Lust, Caution Sex Scenes. Or Lack Thereof.
This is such a great story, that I had to post about it. A man name Dong Yanbin, a Ph.D student at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, has filed a lawsuit against the nation’s film censor, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT), for infringing upon his “consumer [...]
November 14th, 2007 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreDaybreakers 2, Total Recall Remake, Wolverine, Transformers 2, Lust Caution
Total Recall Remake: So, uh, the Weinstein boys want to remake the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie “Total Recall”. Not an altogether bad idea, I think, considering I really liked the original, but it did have some problems, mostly associated with lame sets. The robot taxi, the Mars locations — all pretty terrible set designs, if you [...]
September 10th, 2007 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreIs Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution a Dud?
It would appear Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution”, his 1940s-era Chinese movie set in Shanghai during World War II, is not, as the kids would say, “all that”. At least, according to Variety, which writes: “Beyond the notoriety of a Chinese-language picture with full-frontal female nudity, pic lacks the deep-churning emotional currents that drove Lee’s “Brokeback [...]
August 31st, 2007 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreAng Lee’s Lust, Caution Gets an NC-17 Rating
Ang Lee’s latest movie, the Shanghai-set, World War 2-era espionage film “Lust, Caution” has been slapped with the dreaded NC-17 rating by the U.S.’s MPAA. But that’s not the real surprising thing — it’s that the film’s studio, Focus Features, has accepted the rating. Apparently the filmmakers, including co-writer James Schamus, always knew the film [...]
August 23rd, 2007 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreQuickie Movie News for July 25, 2007
Star Trek 11: Is “Heroes” villain Sylar getting younger and gentler (and less brain-eating’er) as Young Spock in JJ Abrams’ Trek 11 movie? Maybe.
“The Simpsons”: Variety reviews the Simpsons’ hop to the big screen. Verdict: “clever, irreverent, satirical and outfitted with a larger-than-22-minutes plot”. Um.
“Step Up 2″: The sequel to “Step Up”, called “Step Up [...]
Bigger Poster for Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution
Here’s a bigger version of the poster for Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution” via Variety. The Chinese-language film (the trailer tried its hardest to avoid mentioning that the movie is in Chinese, in case you didn’t notice, wink wink) stars Hong Kong stalwart Tony Leung and is set in WWII Shanghai, and involves a plot to [...]
July 7th, 2007 | Nix | 3 Comments | Read MoreAng Lee’s Lust, Caution Trailer, Poster
You gotta love Ang Lee. He’s made over 12 movies in his career, and not a single one of them have been the same. Who else could go from a comic book movie to a gay love story without missing a beat? Ang Lee’s latest is “Lust, Caution”, starring Tony Leung as the target of [...]
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