Articles by Allan Tong

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  It's A Free World

  Ken Loach

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley) returns with a sharp drama about illegal workers in the UK. Brassy blonde Angie (Kierston Warei...

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  Lust, Caution

  Ang Lee

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  Credit Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee for never making the same film twice in a row. His new movie, an erotic espionage thriller set d...

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  Nothing Is Private

  Alan Ball

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  The writer of American Beauty and creator of Six Feet Under makes his directorial debut with this fine black comedy about a 13-year-old Leb...

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  Princess of Nebraska

  Wayne Wang

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  Based on a short story but largely improvised, Princess of Nebraska follows Sasha (newcomer Ling Li), a young Chinese woman studying in Neb...

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  A Promise To The Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman

  Peter Raymont

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  In September, 1973, the C.I.A. sponsored General Pinochet’s coup to violently oust Chilean Socialist President Salvador Allende. Ariel Dorf...

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  Redacted

  Brian De Palma

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  Redacted is the best, if not the bravest, film of Brian De Palma’s career. Using a radical style that mixes quasi-documentary video, websit...

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  Shake Hands With The Devil

  Roger Spottiswoode

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  In the spring of 1994, the president of Rwanda died in a mysterious plane crash, plunging this African nation into genocide. With machetes...

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  The Sun Also Rises

  Jiang Wen

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2007

  The Sun Also Rises is a disappointing mess. True, images of the sprawling Gobi Desert and the dazzling Shangri-La of Yuunan look stunning o...