Ang Lee spy film is surprise winner in Venice
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Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually explicit spy thriller "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner of the top award at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain."
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Moviegoers in director Ang Lee&#39;s native  Taiwan gave a thumbs-up to his prize-winning &quot;Lust, Caution,&quot;  appearing unfazed by the controversy surrounding it or the  steamy sex scenes.
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"Mad Detective," by Hong Kong directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, is this year's surprise entry at the Venice Film Festival.
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A love story about a mismatched  Chinese couple was the big winner at an Asian film festival for  first-time film makers in Singapore on Wednesday, scooping up  three awards including best film and best screenplay.
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Hollywood has turned serious with one eye on the Oscars in February, but it is elsewhere the jury may look when choosing which of 23 competition entries at the Venice film festival wins the Golden Lion on Saturday.
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"Vera Drake," Mike Leigh's tough tale of a working-class mother who is caught performing illegal abortions in 1950s England, scooped up the prizes at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, including the coveted Golden Lion.
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Films competing for the top prize at Venice Film Festival will receive their world premiere at the event.
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Ang Lee's new spy thriller, "Lust, Caution," has been withdrawn as Taiwan's entry for the best foreign film category at next year's Oscars.
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Ang Lee's Lust, Caution is among the five titles nominated for the Bafta 2008 foreign film award.
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&quot;Vera Drake,&quot; Mike Leigh&#39;s tough tale of a working-class mother who is caught performing illegal abortions in 1950s England, scooped up the prizes at the Venice Film
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The world's most populist film festival blasts off with a sexy drama from Ang Lee
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The European premiere of The Terminal launched the Venice Film Festival, with star Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg showing up for the event by boat.
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VENICE, Italy  - Ang Lee's lugubrious spy epic "Lust, Caution" brings to mind what soldiers say about war: that it is long periods of boredom relieved by moments of extremely heightened excitement.
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Two very different movies about the Iraq  war are among the favorites for awards at this year&#39;s Venice  film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually  high number of male leads have stood out.
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ROME  - Spike Lee, in Tuscany, Italy, to scout locations for his next film and to receive the 41st Fiesole Masters of Cinema Award, took swings Monday at Hollywood for its portrayal of black characters, at Washington for its foreign policy and at the film industry in general for leaving him on the outside looking in.
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The Chinese movie "Still Life," a surprise entry set against the backdrop of China's gigantic Three Gorges Dam project, on Saturday won this year's Golden Lion &#151; the top award at the Venice Film Festival. Helen Mirren and Ben Affleck took the top acting awards.
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Ang Lee has walked off with another top award at the Venice film festival, and surprised critics are wondering how he did it.