The Director-General thanked him for sharing the passion and intellectual depth of his views.

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Im, who has made more than 100 films in a 40-year career, was hailed for his "remarkable visual beauty, technical innovation, and intellectual depth".

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But what distinguishes him more from other hedge-fund managers is the depth of his economic analysis and the pretensions of his intellectual ambition.

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His records have been regularly reissued as interpretative classics, peerless in their searching intellectual depth.

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