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...being provocative merely for the sake of it. If the lovemaking in the director's Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain represented a kind of prelapsarian idyll - a state of innocence that can never be recaptured - here the physical act takes his characters to a darker and more frightening place. "I think sexuality is worth exploring because it's the ultimate performance," says Lee, who is hanging out in a luxury hotel suite a few hours before the film's red-carpet Hong Kong premiere on Sept. 22. "The chemistry can be quite complicated. Sex is very much a performance. But that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infernal Affair | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...that sense his move to movies couldn't be more natural. Corbijn sees Control not as a typical rock biopic or music film, but as "a tragic love story with great music." Based on the book Touching From a Distance by Curtis' wife, Debbie (played by the Oscar-nominated British actress Samantha Morton), it's a familiar tale: Debbie and Curtis, brought movingly back to life by newcomer Sam Riley, meet and marry as teenagers; Curtis joins the band and, while on tour, begins an affair with an exotic Belgian, leaving Debbie at home to take care of their baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anton Corbijn: Moving Pictures | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...habit of teaching Hollywood how little it knows about audiences, proving broad crowds would embrace a gay Western (Brokeback Mountain) and show up for a subtitled martial arts flick (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). With his new film, the NC-17-rated, Mandarin-language spy thriller Lust, Caution, the Oscar-winning director is once again ignoring the rules of commercial filmmaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Ang Lee | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

Keira Knightley, Oscar-nominated actress, on being her own worst critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Oct. 8, 2007 | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...Well, since Oscar Wilde isn’t buying what she’s selling—what I think she’s probably selling—then Louis XIV. That or his wife...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room Raiders, FM Style | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

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