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Taking Woodstock

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Aug.09] :. The Ang Lee take on Woodstock never gets much beyond these clichés: hippies took drugs, rain made mud, the music was great and crowds were huge.

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The Woodstock of Ang Lee’s mind

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[21.Aug.09] :. Woodstock, the concert, is not exactly front and center of director Ang Lee’s comic history, “Taking Woodstock.” The movie, in theaters Aug 28, is about how the iconic rock show...

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Hulk: Revisited

by 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.

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Sex and violence are not always gratuitous, directors say

by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[12.Nov.07] :. What has more sex and violence than an episode of “The Jerry Springer Show”? The multiplex. You can pass through any neighborhood in America and not know what goes on behind the closed...

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Lee’s ‘Lust’ More than Mere Skin and Spies

by 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...

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Ang Lee’s ‘Lust, Caution’ has sense and sensuality

by 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...

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[28.Sep.06] :. Fabulous! might have been more accurately titled, "Assimilate! The Mainstream Commercial Success of Gay and Lesbian Cinema."

Brokeback 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. Ramlow

Ride 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 Fuchs

Ride 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 Hilderbrand

The film's narrative unfolds slowly -- too slowly at first.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

by Oliver Wang

One 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.