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Ang Lee |
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Director / Producer |
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1954 - |
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Born October 23,
Pingtung, Taiwan |
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Key
Production Countries: USA, Taiwan |
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Key Genres:
Period Film, Romance, Drama, Comedy Drama |
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Key
Collaborators: Tim Squyres
(Editor), James
Schamus (Screenwriter/Producer), Sihung Lung (Leading Player), Ted Hope
(Producer),
Wang Hui-Ling (Screenwriter), Frederick Elmes (Cinematographer), Winston
Chao (Leading Player), Hsu Li-Kong (Producer), William Kong (Producer), Mychael Danna (Composer) |
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Highly Recommended: The
Ice Storm (1997), Ride with the Devil (1999) |
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Recommended: The
Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon (2000)*^, Brokeback Mountain (2005)^ |
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Worth a Look: Hulk
(2003), Lust, Caution (2007)
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Approach with Caution:
Sense and Sensibility (1995) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most
Acclaimed Films
section. |
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Links:
[
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ]
[
Salon
Interview ] [
Independent
View Interview ] [
Guardian
Unlimited Interview ] [
Film
Monthly Interview ] [
DGA
Interview ] [
indieWIRE Interview (2007) ] |
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Books:
[
Ang
Lee ] [
Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of Ang Lee's Epic Film ] |
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"A
director of meticulously crafted dramas, his films analyse the
role of the family and personal relationships in terms of
generational, cultural and sexual difference. Ranging from Asia
to America and spanning two centuries, his work is both
intelligent and heartfelt."
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Ian Haydn Smith (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002) |
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"Yes, Ang Lee is
at least as good as "everyone" says. More than that, he is
capable of quietly giving the slip to his large, adoring
following, and getting back to the vein of what I take for his
best work, those two "failures" in his illustrious list, The
Ice Storm and Ride with Devil." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"Lee
respects the conventions of whatever period he is filming, and
it is notable that, unlike many of his New York University
Institute of Film and Television counterparts, he has not, as
yet, been swayed by the unholy burden of contemporary rectitude." -
Mario Reading (The Movie Companion, 2006) |
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"Sometimes films ignore
other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that
way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different
points of view and situations, the more real the story is." -
Ang Lee |
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"On
a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here,
you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want
to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy." -
Ang Lee |
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include
Surviving
Woodstock (2009). |
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7+ |
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"In
the space of only five years, beginning in 1991, and on the
strength of four films, Taiwanese film director Ang Lee grew
from art-house phenomenon to major studio director. Lee’s
first three films, a sort of trilogy of charming family
dramas, established him as a talented director with a
particularly deft hand at creating character driven studies
of human nature… It is this unique ability acutely to grasp
the essence of multicultural customs, combined with his
professional polish, that distinguishes Lee from his peers.
After the success of
Sense and Sensibility,
he entered the Hollywood mainstream with
The
Ice Storm,
released in 1997, and examining with awesome accuracy a
particular social stratum in American society."
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Kevin Hillstrom (updated by Robyn
Karney), International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers |
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Top 250 Directors |
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21st Century Top
50 |
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100 Essential Directors (Pop
Matters) |
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Ranked
27th on The Guardian's 2004 List of the World's 40 Best Directors |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Robert Benton |
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Chen Kaige |
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King Hu |
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Juzo Itami |
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James Ivory |
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Mira Nair |
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Sam Raimi |
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Robert Redford |
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Wayne Wang |
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Wong Kar-wai |
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Edward Yang |
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Zhang Yimou |
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