At Sunday's BAFTA screening for Lust, Caution, director Ang Lee explained that this particular nexus between sex and politics scared him to death, which was why he had to do it. He insisted on not cutting the 5 to 10 seconds that would have yielded an R rating. The sex scenes are intensely powerful....
Read More »I'm not of the Wes Anderson-can-do-no-wrong school. I loved Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, blew lukewarm on The Royal Tanenbaums (which was often wonderful, but also awful in places), and froze out Life Aquatic. So I am happy to report that Darjeeling Limited is the best thing Anderson has done since R...
Read More »Plans to produce a global movie to promote world peace at a one-off event next year titled "Pangea Day" are coming together, according to the organisers. "Movies alone can't change the world but the people who watch them can," Egyptian-American documentary film-maker Jehane Noujaim, who dreamt up th...
Read More »Hungarian director Csaba Bollok took home the Reykjavik International Film Festival's "Discovery of the Year" award over the weekend, capping the eleven-day event in Iceland's capital. Though the festival is somewhat overshadowed Stateside by the New York Film Festival, which takes place concurrentl...
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