Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with Sense and Sensibility, a marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet WalterDirected By: Ang Lee
Lust, Caution, Ang Lee's follow up to Brokeback Mountain, for which he won the Academy Award® for Best Director, continues his exploration of people with a passion for each other trapped in a world where their passion could be life-threatening, but in a very different context this time. Set in China during the Japanese occupation of early World War II, the underlying plot concerns ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Joan Chen, Leehom Wang, Tang WeiDirected By: Ang Lee
A sad, melancholy ache pervades Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee's haunting, moving film that, like his other movies, explores societal constraints and the passions that lurk underneath. This time, however, instead of taking on ancient China, 19th-century England, or '70s suburbia, Lee uses the tableau of the American West in the early '60s to show how two lovers are bound by their expected ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy QuaidDirected By: Ang Lee
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is so many things: an historical epic on a grand scale, an Asian martial-arts flick with both great effects and fantastic fighting (choreographed by The Matrix's guru Yuen Wo Ping), a story of magic, revenge and power played with a posse of star-crossed lovers thrown in for good measure. Set during the Qing dynasty (the late 19th century), the ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung LungDirected By: Ang Lee
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Emma Thompson, Judi Dench, Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Matthew MacFadyenDirected By: Ang Lee, Martin Scorsese, John Madden, Joe Wright
Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, JewelDirected By: Ang Lee
Amazingly, Ang Lee's Hulk makes a fair fist of pleasing everybody. The latest in a run of Marvel Comic-to-film transfers, it acknowledges the history of a character who dates back to 1962 while recreating him in contemporary terms. Though this, Hulk's origin still draws on the 1960s iconography of bomb tests and desert bases, this new take mixes gene-tampering with gamma radiation and never ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Eric Bana|Jennifer Connelly|Sam ElliottDirected By: Ang Lee
Asian American director Ang Lee sums up America in the early 1970s by focusing on the arrival of the sexual revolution in the 'burbs. Isolationism within a family, consumerism, and selfishness are personified by a cast that captures the self-obsession within two New England families. As the children struggle awkwardly with adolescence, their parents stumble through sexual experimentation. In the ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Kevin Kline, Katie Holmes, Courtney Peldon, David Krumholtz, Michael CumpstyDirected By: Ang Lee
Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel . Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Josh Lucas, Sam Elliott, Nick NolteDirected By: Ang Lee
