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