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10 Movies Sold on a Sex Scene
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"There apparently are other reasons to see Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona besides the infamous lesbian kiss between Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz or the threesome between these actresses and Javier Bardem. But as the first things most of us heard about the movie, the sex scenes are certainly a big sell (the ménage à trois is even being used in a promotional contest to win a “threesome” with ScarJo). Even if they’re reportedly underwhelming. Promise of tantalizing footage has been an appeal for moviegoers likely since the dawn of cinema, with film pioneer Eadweard Muybridge’s The Human Figure in Motion - Descending Stairs and Turning Around featuring nudity as far back as the 1880s. And if you’ve seen any of the titles included in today’s list, chances are their respective sex scenes were at least part of what made you buy a ticket (or rent the video).
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Lust, Caution (2007)
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"There was a point when watching Lust, Caution last night when I managed to fall asleep. It was dark, it had been a long day and I was relaxed on the sofa, and I felt my eyes pull shut except this time they took a few minutes to open. When I woke up all of ten minutes later I wound back and realised that the story had not progressed in that ten minutes I was asleep. The purpose of me telling you this is not to say that the film was boring or that I was disinterested (if I was I would not have wound back when I woke again) but to illustrate one of the film's most defining characteristics. This is real slow burn, revelling in beautiful filmmaking and exceptional performances. This is less about the plot and more about the evolving relationships between characters - which is just as well given how slight the plot is. Lust, Caution is the tale of a student who joins a theatre troop and finds herself part of a loyalist plot to kill a top level collaborator, the powerful Mr Yee. As part o ... "
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Non-review review #4
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"I'd like to say a few words about Ang Lee's latest film, Lust, Caution. For anyone who has seen Mr. Lee's films that came before The Ice storm this will seem like yet another odd contribution from this talented filmmaker. If you are not familiar with his earliest films I would highly recommend watching them. They are small, quirky little movies that are very human and moving. Lust, Caution is none of these things which is odd because it should be. Instead it is a rather large, disconnected movie that skips around in time (I think) to try and make a rather bland story more engrossing movie. The acting is superb and although the running time is quite long (two and a half hours I believe) the film has a steady pace that keeps the movie from dragging. Which is to say this movie has a number of things going for it. What the film does not have, as far as I am concerned, is a story worth telling. This is yet another movie where if a person were to sum up the story to you in a sentence or ... "
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"Oh, good: Indiana Jones and the Dorian Grey-ing of Harrison Ford Into Shia LaBouf will premiere at Cannes! Maybe. No one’s seen the thing yet, but according to Variety, “The cast, which includes Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf and Cate Blanchett, have already been notified to pack their black-tie outfits for the French Riviera’s red carpet unspooling even though the fest has yet to confirm its official lineup.” Because celebrities pack suitcases 10 weeks in advance. Theatrical exhibition conference ShoWest will confer a special “Freedom of Expression Award” to Ang Lee and James Schamus, for releasing Lust, Caution with an NC-17 rating instead of cutting the film to get an R. National Theater Owners president John Fithian is inexplicably trying to push studios to revitalize the NC-17 market, even though even Lust, Caution made just under $5 million domestically, and in fact was a super-hit in China…where it was cut to appease the censors. Semi-Pro, which opens today, su "
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Lust? CAUTION!!
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"Rest easy, America. The MPAA is on the job, keeping on the lookout for any cinematic preversions* and branding them as such. Why, just this week, they prevented yet another evil sex movie from getting the opportunity to prevert your children's minds. What film, you ask?Why, Ang "Gay Cowboy movie" Lee's latest film, entitled Lust, Caution. You might have heard your 9-year-old talking about it for months now, begging you to take them to see it. And it's understandable. I mean, a movie set in Shanghai during World War II, entirely in Mandarin AND WITH SUBTITLES?! Is it even possible for them to try to draw the kids in any more than they already have?But what the action-packed trailer doesn't tell you is that the movie has lots and lots of sex in it. I'm not talking about regular man-on-woman sex. I'm talking about man-on-woman preverted sex! Like in positions much different from (and more acrobatic than) the one you were in when you conceive ... "
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"Oh, good: Indiana Jones and the Dorian Grey-ing of Harrison Ford Into Shia LaBouf will premiere at Cannes! Maybe. No one’s seen the thing yet, but according to Variety, “The cast, which includes Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf and Cate Blanchett, have already been notified to pack their black-tie outfits for the French Riviera’s red carpet unspooling even though the fest has yet to confirm its official lineup.” Because celebrities pack suitcases 10 weeks in advance. Theatrical exhibition conference ShoWest will confer a special “Freedom of Expression Award” to Ang Lee and James Schamus, for releasing Lust, Caution with an NC-17 rating instead of cutting the film to get an R. National Theater Owners president John Fithian is inexplicably trying to push studios to revitalize the NC-17 market, even though even Lust, Caution made just under $5 million domestically, and in fact was a super-hit in China…where it was cut to appease the censors. Semi-Pro, which opens today, su "
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"Lady Wakasa makes a strong case in defense of Lust, Caution. “It’s true that there are elements in the story that won’t be clear to some Western audiences…There are universalities that can be picked up: about the effects of environment and upbringing, about the nature of love, about what in relationships is and isn’t an act, how war is hell with a twist. But these universalities are filtered through a Chinese lens. As such, I think it’s up to the Westerners to go the extra mile and fill in blanks they find. The shoe on the other foot, to a certain degree.” The Shamus thought Contempt was “about nothing more than the pneumatic perfection of Brigitte Bardot’s ass,” but a later Godard film went over much better. “Masculin-Feminin strikes me as a Warhol-esque montage of the ’60s as we wanted them to truly be, with more going on under the surface than we might want to admit.” A holdover from the heady days immediately following Dumbledore’s outing … you know, last week:
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Lee Let Lust Get Away From Him
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"If there is one filmmaker that can be called one of the new masters of cinema, that man would be Ang Lee. Over the course of nearly 20 years, he has given us a wide variety of films to celebrate. Like Spielberg, there might be one film of his you don’t like, but there’s at least one that you do, no matter your taste. He has paved new ground more than a few times, a couple of them most recently with his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. And to follow up the latter, he has decided to go back to China to tell a World War II drama. How can any film nut pass that up?The film is Lust, Caution and truer words could not explain this movie. It’s been the epicenter of debate over the NC-17 Rating given by the MPAA due to graphic sex scenes that Lee refused to edit (and for good reason). The film stars a newcomer Tang Wei as the young college student Wang Jiazhi who gets involved in a revolutionary drama group during the Japanese occupation of China duri ... "
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Golden Globes: Less Foreign Tha ...
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"The Golden Globes demonstrated their interest in contemporary World Cinema last year by nominating two Hollywood-produced films in the Best Foreign Language Film category, and ultimately handing the award to Clint Eastwood’s Japanese-language Letters From Iwo Jima. I was one of many who found this worrisome, but at the same time, it didn’t seem like it was totally out of left field. At least they didn’t give it to Apocalypto (nominated in the same category, thus unfortunately giving Mel Gibson a dose of “they only understand my work in Europe” cred). At The Hollywood Reporter, Steven Zeitchik says the Hollywood Foreign Press Association looks almost certain to repeat the pattern this year. Lust, Caution and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly are just two of several films with Hollywood studio backing, directed by name-brand Indiewood auteurs, in a language other than English and incorporating a mix of foreign talent, that the Globes are expected to deem “too foreign” for their Best ... "
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Top 15 Fall Films I'm Looking F ...
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"Fall is my favorite time of year. Not just because it's the time of year when New York City is at its most beautiful, thus reminding us all why we continue in this abusive relationship with it, but because the movies start to get good again after the onslaught of big-budget blockbusters that are only occasionally watchable. People seem to think that, with each passing year, the movies get worse and worse. Well, if you're looking at crap like Transformers (the new nadir of megahit blockbuster quality), then yeah. But there's a whole crop of ambitious, interesting films that come out every fall and - even if they end up being bad - you have to give them credit for trying. Unlike Transformers. So here's my list of 15 films that I am dying to see this fall. Some are already out (and I'm negotiating with my wife to be able to find the time to see them) and some I still wait in painful anticipation for: 15. American Gangster - Ridley Scott might have actually ... "
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