MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <i>Lust, Caution</i> is entirely engrossing, despite its slow pace and its length, with superb performances throughout.
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/ 25 January 2008
Results of a postmortem examination carried out on the actor Heath Ledger were inconclusive and it could take two weeks for a cause of death to be determined. Ledger (28) the star of Brokeback Mountain, was found dead in a New York apartment on Tuesday afternoon.
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/ 22 January 2008
Heath Ledger, the Australian actor nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for his depiction of a brooding gay cowboy, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday. He was 28. He was discovered in his bedroom in the apartment in the SoHo neighbourhood of Manhattan at 3.30pm by a housekeeper and a masseuse.
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/ 9 September 2007
Taiwan was flushed with pride on Sunday as favourite son and world famous director Ang Lee took the Venice film festival’s top award for his steamy thriller Lust, Caution, just two years after winning with Brokeback Mountain.
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/ 4 September 2007
Two very different movies about the Iraq war are among the favourites for awards at this year’s Venice film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually high number of male leads have stood out. For pure shock value, Brian De Palma’s Redacted wins hands down, stunning audiences with an uncompromising reconstruction of the real-life rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl.