Ang Lee

...with secret superpowers. 2 Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee, 2005, GBP9.78: Director Ang Lee insists on calling this simply "a love story" but it broke new ground as a gay cowboy movie. Achingly moving, with career-high performances from...

In this article: DVD, Christopher Nolan, Pixar, Richard Linklater, Oscar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tony Gilroy, Michael Haneke, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul

...Version. Ang Lee remembers Woodstock - and Heath Kelli Garner (left), Demetri Martin (center) and Paul Dano (right) star in Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock. Damien Murphy and Emily Dunn IN 1969 the film...

In this article: Heath Ledger, Taking Woodstock, Sydney, Apollo 11, Elliot Tiber, Academy Award, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Janis Joplin

...Lee talks about Heath Ledger Director Ang Lee has spoken out about his favourite memory of Heath Ledger - a kissing scene between him and Jake Gyllenhaal while new girlfriend Michelle Williams was watching. Lee was directing the trio...

In this article: Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Taking Woodstock, Jake Gyllenhaal, Liev Schreiber, Elliot Tiber, Oscar, and Cannes Film Festival

...refers to talented or dangerous people hidden from view. With Taking Woodstock, Lee returns to the light comedic vein of his early Chinese movies, among them Eat Drink Man Woman. It is adapted from the real-life story of Elliot Tiber...

In this article: Elliot Tiber, Taking Woodstock, Lust, Caution, Heath Ledger, China, Taiwan, United States, Legal age, and New York University

...least, a picture opened like the waves of the Red Sea to reveal Ledger's abilities. I'm thinking of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, from the Annie Proulx story. The performance was a surprise; Ledger had not previously really shown evidence of...

In this article: Heath Ledger, Oscar, Brad Pitt, Joker, Mickey Rourke, Marlon Brando, Revolutionary Road, Meryl Streep, The Dark Knight, and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

...their repressed lives. Director Ang Lee acutely contrasts the freedom of Wyoming's spectacular vistas with the protagonists' trapped desperation while Ledger and Gyllenhaal turn in performances just as breathtaking. Mother-daughter angst is...

In this article: Daniel Day-Lewis, Steve Martin, Brokeback Mountain, Samuel L Jackson, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Drew Barrymore, John Candy, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Dustin Hoffman

...film "The Graduate. " Given that Lee directed "Brokeback Mountain," in which the late Heath Ledger's nuanced, Oscar-nominated character had similar repressed traits, it's reasonable to expect depth and empathy. Yet, even though Elliot is...

In this article: Taking Woodstock, Brokeback Mountain, Oscar, Demetri Martin, Heath Ledger, The Graduate, and Henry Goodman

Ang Lee Calls Heath's Death 'Heartbreaking' WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2008 03:40 PM EST Heath Ledger and Ang Lee Photo by: Focus Features Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee reflects fondly on working with Heath Ledger, calling the actor's...

In this article: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain, Michelle Williams, Academy Award, Shyness, Ennis Del Mar, and Focus Features

...the late actor Heath Ledger, who worked with Lee on "Brokeback Mountain." "Ang really challenged Heath and brought Heath out of his comfort zone," Hirsch says. "I think Heath was actually freaked out when he made that film because he was...

In this article: Emile Hirsch, Heath Ledger, Elliot Tiber, Into the Wild, Taking Woodstock, Academy Award, Jimi Hendrix, Speed Racer, and Brokeback Mountain