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The 11 Best Civil War Movies
They say the older you get, you either become someone who smokes meat or someone who gets into the Civil War. Well, I feel like I'm more of a WWII guy, but I've been known to dabble in America's ...
Despite all of which - and especially its being directed by the Taiwanese immigrant talent Ang Lee whose recent Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has hit the $100 million mark - the film fell utterly ...
Why was it such a hard film to make? LEE: I didn’t know how to do it. I believe I’m a pretty quick learner in any kind of filmmaking, like the previous movie, Ride with the Devil. Horses, guns.
Ang Lee’s Wedding Banquet culminated in a beautiful moment when the protagonist’s father acknowledged his son-in-law with a traditional bridal envelope. There is no room for such nuance in the ...
6. Ride with the Devil (1999) Under direction of Ang Lee, this under-appreciable treasure investigates Missouri's guerilla struggle. Ride with the Devil is a unique, close-up view of the effects of ...
Ride With The Devil (1999) Universal Pictures via MovieStillsDb Although it’s not the most well-known part of Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s filmography, Ride With The Devil has a reputation for ...
MSPIFF programmer Craig Laurence Rice, a longtime champion of Lee’s underseen Civil War epic “Ride with the Devil” (1999), sought to use the event as a showcase for Lee’s versatility.
This complete retrospective of Lee’s feature films honors the diversity of his oeuvre while highlighting a philosophical throughline that resists polarization. “It’s not good or bad,” speak characters ...
Ride with the Devil Ang Lee, US, 1999, 35mm, 138 min. Ang Lee reteamed with Tobey Maguire two years after The Ice Storm for this revisionist Civil War-western based on the novel “Woe to Live On” by ...
Lee’s work is full of reserved, solitary types who fit awkwardly in their time and place, but none of the director’s characters are as inarticulate, lonely and repressed as his protagonist in ...