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NEW DELAY IN CHINA FOR ANG LEE FILM
Thursday, October 18 2007
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Despite the fact that director Ang Lee has reportedly trimmed about eight minutes of the most explicit sex scenes from his Chinese-language Lust, Caution, the film has yet to be passed by Chinese censors and its release date has now been pushed back to November 1, distributor China Film Group confirmed Wednesday. Pirate copies of the award-winning film, already a hit in Hong Kong (which appoints its own film-review board), are being pedaled on the streets of many major Chinese cities -- presumably without cuts, making the delayed release on the mainland of even greater concern.
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MOVIE REVIEWS: LUST, CAUTION
Monday, October 1 2007
Ang
Lee's
Lust,
Caution
,
which
recently
won
the
top
prize
at
the
Venice
Film
Festival
despite
mixed
reviews
from
critics
there,
didn't
do
much
better
with
critics
in
New
York,
where
it
opened
this
past
weekend.
Manohla
Dargis
in
the
New
York
Times
said
that
it
"feels
at
once
overpadded
and
underdeveloped:
it's
all
production
design
and
not
enough
content."
Likewise
Claudia
Puig
in
USA
Today
called
it
"beautifully
mounted
but
rather
unmoving."
Lou
Lumenick
(more)
LEE'S FILM APPLAUDED IN HIS HOMELAND
Tuesday, September 25 2007
It
may
have
received
mixed
reviews
from
critics
at
the
recent
Venice
film
festival
--
where
it
nevertheless
was
awarded
the
top
Golden
Lion
award
--
but,
according
to
news
reports
from
Taipei,
Ang
Lee's
Lust,
Caution
received
widespread
approval
from
moviegoers
when
it
premiered
in
the
Taiwan
capital
Monday
night.
Lee
is
regarded
as
a
cultural
hero
in
the
country,
once
called
Nationalist
China
to
differentiate
it
from
the
Communist-ruled
mainland.
A
small
controversy
(more)
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