First, a couple of articles of note:

Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution—which has done much better business in Taiwan and mainland China than it did here—has inspired the Chinese government to warn against attempting its acrobatic sex acts at home. (Via Thompson on Hollywood.)

The Guardian has a worthwhile piece on the treatment of abortion in recent Hollywood films.

Opening this week:

Wednesday’s wide releases I covered then: They include I’m Not There, Margot at the Wedding, and the surprisingly delectable Enchanted.

A respectable limited-run lineup starts off with The Landlord at Northwest Film Forum (reviewed in On Screen this week).

Grand Illusion is kicking off its A Date with Kate series with Hepburn’s glorious comeback in The Philadelphia Story and her lesser-known noir turn in Undercurrent. (Up next week: Adam’s Rib and Summertime. I’m reading Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn right now, by the way; it’s newly out in paperback. I recommend it, even if the writing can be pedestrian.)

SIFF Cinema is into its second week of 30 Years of Kino, and it’s just as good as the first. Chaplin’s subtexty City Lights plays through Monday, followed by a kinky pairing of The Piano Teacher and A Winter Tan, Raul Ruiz’s Proust adaptation Time Regained, and the enigmatic Russian film The Return.

Plus: The Red Balloon w/ White Mane at the Varsity, megadetailed 70mm Titanic at Cinerama, and more.

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