One more Golden Lion for Ang Leeposted on Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Taiwanese director Ang Lee picked up his second Golden Lion for best film at the Venice film festival on Saturday for his erotic spy thriller Se, Jie (Lust, Caution). Victorious two years ago with Brokeback Mountain, which also won him an Oscar, this time Lee served up a tense drama set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s. Veteran US director Brian De Palma won the Silver Lion for his hard-hitting Iraq war film Redacted. The jury also bestowed a special 75th anniversary Golden Lion on legendary Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. The Volpi Cups for Best actors went to Brad Pitt for The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford by Andrew Dominik and to Australian actress Cate Blanchett for I’m Not There by Todd Haynes. This year, the Queer Lion, a new prize for the best film that accurately portrays gay themes or characters went to Ed Radtke's coming of age film The Speed of Life and Kenneth Branagh's remake of Sleuth won a special mention. Watch Lust, Caution trailer (first video) and Jesse James trailer (second video)...Source AFP
Taiwanese director Ang Lee picked up his second Golden Lion for best film at the Venice film festival on Saturday for his erotic spy thriller Se, Jie (Lust, Caution). Victorious two years ago with Brokeback Mountain, which also won him an Oscar, this time Lee served up a tense drama set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s. Veteran US director Brian De Palma won the Silver Lion for his hard-hitting Iraq war film Redacted. The jury also bestowed a special 75th anniversary Golden Lion on legendary Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. The Volpi Cups for Best actors went to Brad Pitt for The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford by Andrew Dominik and to Australian actress Cate Blanchett for I’m Not There by Todd Haynes. This year, the Queer Lion, a new prize for the best film that accurately portrays gay themes or characters went to Ed Radtke's coming of age film The Speed of Life and Kenneth Branagh's remake of Sleuth won a special mention. Watch Lust, Caution trailer (first video) and Jesse James trailer (second video)...Source AFP
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