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...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...
...HYUN, President of South Korea, preparing to traverse the border between North and South Korea for the second summit between the two nations since World War II...
Were you serious when you dissed the quality of the Ocean's Thirteen script? -Rina Echavez, Los AngelesWith the exception of The Godfather: Part II, first films like Ocean's Eleven are generally the best, and the sequels usually deteriorate until you end up with Jaws 5 or whatever. Twelve sort of fell apart, and we didn't want to go out like that. We wanted another crack at it. Thirteen was a lot better...
...first tramcar service in the Philippines. Generations later, the company pioneered ways for Filipinos to pay bills and transfer money via their cell phone. Along the way, some of Ayala’s top leaders trained at Harvard—including its current CEO, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II ’81, who last week became the first Filipino to be recognized with the Harvard Business School’s highest honor for its alumni. Zobel has focused on innovative ways to improve Ayala Corporation and the $22 million non-profit Ayala Foundation, whose goal is to strengthen...
...film takes place in Shanghai during World War II. It's based on a short story by Eileen Chang which is much more subtle in describing the relationships between the characters. Why did you choose to be so explicit...