While Ang Lee's latest, "Lust, Caution" isn't playing at the New York Film Festival, Friday night on the Upper West Side of Manhattan it opened to huge crowds just across the street from Lincoln Center where the NYFF was kicking off (as reported in this week's indieWIRE BOT column). The night before, Focus Features toasted Lee's "Lust" after the director returned from a trip to Asia where the film has also been breaking records in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Introducing Lee at Thursday's Sunshine Cinema private screening, the film's screening (and Focus CEO) James Schamus praised the movie as a "translucent work of art" and quippped that the movie is, "our very first two-and-a-half hour Chinese porn movie." The film, set in Shanghai in 1942, is the story of a young woman (played by Tang Wei) who seeks to seduce a Japanese collaborator (Tony Leung), resulting in a torrid affair that becomes intense and emotional as the story unfolds. Welcoming the audience and calling the project ""really really special," Ang Lee added that making the movie and exploring such a profound period of history was like "getting something off my chest." The film expands to additional cities next week, October 5th.