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Articles tagged "ang lee" Short Ends and LeaderHulk: Revisitedby Bill Gibron[9.Jun.08] :. In preparation for the franchise reboot starring Edward Norton, SE&L looks back at Ang Lee's 2003 version of the Big Green Meanie, a criminally marginalized movie that truly didn't deserve the critical or commercial drubbing it took at the time. Featured Article Film DVD ReviewThe Ice Stormby Matt Mazur[4.Apr.08] :. The general fuzzed-out sense of malaise that Lee is able to tap into while exploring the Nixon-era sexual revolution (and repression and adventure), creates a point of view that both ruthlessly observes and empathizes with these alien suburbanites. Short Ends and LeaderLee’s ‘Lust’ More than Mere Skin and Spiesby Bill Gibron[26.Oct.07] :. Ang Lee has had an amazing career behind the camera. Seemingly unphased by sudden shifts in subject matter, he’s tackled everything from Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility), ‘70s... PopMatters Pick Film ReviewLust, Caution (Se, jie)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Oct.07] :. The primary question in Lust, Caution (Se, jie) is: "What is real?"  NewsAng Lee’s ‘Lust, Caution’ has sense and sensualityby Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)][4.Oct.07] :. NEW YORK—Ang Lee remembers what it was like when he decided to make “Sense and Sensibility,” his first English-language film. The condescension. The whispering that this Taiwanese...  Film DVD ReviewBrokeback Mountain (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[12.Apr.06] :. While the movie's poetry is often stunning, the DVD docs are decidedly and disappointingly banal. Brokeback Mountain (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Dec.05] :. It's Alma's silence that makes Brokeback Mountain feel so serious. Her pain is neither exquisite nor elegiac. It is only hard. The Hulk (2003)by Todd R. Ramlow[19.Jun.03] :. In Hulk, the comic books' critique of institutional authority and the way U.S. culture perceives and deals with difference is evacuated. Ride with the Devil (1999)by Todd R. RamlowRide with the Devil is essentially two films in one. The first is a story of loyalty - to family, community, and nation - tested in the social and political upheavals of civil war. The second is a story of male bonding and love in a homosocial order, the negotiation of male-male desire, and male domestication, all triangulated and enabled through the body of a woman. Ride with the Devil (1999)by Cynthia FuchsRide With the Devil dares to bring yet another version. Directed by Ang Lee and written by Lee and his usual collaborator James Schamus (who adapted Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, a novel inspired, says the author, by today's warfare in the Balkans), the film is rather surprising, and not only because it stars Jewel as a Southern widow. Telling stories that don't usually get told, Ride With the Devil focuses on some of the War's more disgraceful and outrageous aspects, both personal and public. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)by Lucas HilderbrandThe film's narrative unfolds slowly -- too slowly at first. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)by Oliver WangOne doesn't need a Kung Fu Cinema background to enjoy 'Crouching Tiger', but it helps in appreciating how the movie builds on -- and arguably surpasses -- that rich cinematic tradition. |
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