Lust, Caution (Se jie)

Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (389 movies items)

"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★½ NOTES: Although it was projected slightly out of focus until halfway through, this is a near-perfectly preserved, beautiful print save for a couple of scenes affected by trailing lines. DATE: April 24th 2024 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End"

My trips to the cinema 2024 (115 movies items)

"SCREENING: 35mm DATE: April 24th CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End"

List of Best Mainstream Adult Movies (23 movies items)

"Hoping to sabotage Imperial Japan's occupation of their native China, a group of radical students recruit a beautiful young woman, Chia Chi (Wei Tang) to entrap and assassinate high-ranking collaborator Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). All goes as planned until they fall into a torrid, agenda-scrambling affair, which director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) explicitly depicts in all of its rigorous, almost scary physicality. The film earns its NC-17 rating both for the uncommon length of these scenes, and for"

“(Mu) Ang Lee takes its time to plant the story, too clasicaal and cold in comparison to his best films; its hard to believe there´s more love than hate in the relationship, but there´s a point...” read more

Movies Watched in 2021 (153 movies items)

"April 19th Directed by: Ang Lee Downloaded."

Movies set in the World War II period (83 movies items)

"Setting: China Strong romantic element, though it may not seem so. During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi part of an idealistic group of young revulutionaries set their sights on a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee and enter a dangerous game. "

A Complete Review of Ang Lee's work (15 movies items)

" Cast : Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen What was it about? During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee. My two cents: Ang Lee must be, with Darren Aronofosky, the most versatile director at work right now. I mean, seriously, you just need check his movies in this list. Most of them were very good but, above all, they were jut so different from one and another. Coming back to ou"

PopMatter's Essential Film Performances - 2010 (50 movies items)

"FROM PAGE TO SCREEN Tony Leung There are few actors from Asia who can convey melancholy like Leung. The glint of a fixed gaze, the slight frown of the lips, even in the way he smokes a cigarette, there’s the air of ineffable sadness about him. As the head of the secret police in 1940s Shanghai, Mr. Yee, Leung’s performance relies on subtle shifts in desire. His pursuit of the student spy, Wong Chia Chi (the luminous Tang Wei) is at first tentative, then urgent and forceful. Her youth and dir"