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...might think the highest-rated Oscar telecasts are in years when there's a close contest in the major categories, as with Crash and Brokeback Mountain two years. Nuh-uh. It's the runaway years, when billion-dollar blockbusters like Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King get what are essentially People's Choice awards, and its makers wear a path in the rug from their seats to the stage. Moviegoers who are TV viewers don't want horse races; they want coronations - validations that somebody in Hollywood is ready to honor the movies they...
...course, this isn’t the first time the Catholic League has waged holy war against godless Hollywood. The group lambasted films like “The Dreamers” and “Brokeback Mountain” for glorifying sin on the silver screen, but this latest attack is more painfully pointless, and represents just how out of touch the League is with reality...
...material, but it is also drowning beneath the folds. While audiences will be captivated by the film’s languid, shadowy images and tortured characters, the overall effect is diluted by excessive length (158 minutes) and lack of development. Taiwanese director Ang Lee, known for “Brokeback Mountain” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” adapts Chinese author Eileen Chang’s eponymous short story with exquisite artistic balance, but the film’s visual density simply cannot compensate for its paucity elsewhere. Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai...
...With Lust, Caution Lee is charting new territory, trading Brokeback's Ansel Adams vistas for oppressive World War II Shanghai. But Lust, Caution shares with that film a mournful, elegiac tone. "It's this idea of repressed or impossible love," Lee says. "I find that yearning attractive. Somehow, it's my observation of the grand illusion of love: you can never acquire it, or attain it, or describe it. So the more difficult or elusive it is - or in this case, the more twisted - that becomes very attractive to me in making a movie...
...years ago, Lee won a Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, a less explicit but no less passionate story of two gay cowboys. He took that cachet and banked it on a Mandarin-language drama that has earned the Motion Picture Association's NC-17 rating (no children under 17). That rating will keep Lust, Caution out of many cinemas because lots of theater owners won't show films with a rating harder than R. Nor, if current standards hold, will the dvd be available at Wal-Mart or Blockbuster. But the $83 million theatrical take of Brokeback makes some...