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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Refresh screen periodically for updates. A nd thank you to reader Tony for sending me the news Maggie Cheung alert! She walked the carpet earlier in this white number to your left. She was presenting Best Picture at the Golden Horse Awards . The Golden Horse is Taiwanese in origin but it's for Chinese language films regardless of country of origin so it's very competitive now. Warlords and Lust, Caution...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
On Wednesday night, the National Arts Club awarded its Medal of Honor in Film to director Ang Lee and his longtime collaborator, Focus Features president James Schamus. It was, the two frankly admitted, probably the only accolade they’d get this year, given critics’ — and audiences’ — tepid reaction to Taking Woodstock , which Lee directed and Schamus wrote. The two of...
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Paul Atherton - SimpleTV (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Enjoyed "Taking Woodstock" on Saturday, Ang Lee's light, sweet, comical look of the Festival was reminiscent of his film The Ice Storm.
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
OSCAR-winning director Ang Lee and screenwriter James Schamus collaborate on this recreation of the music festival that defined a generation.
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Ang Lee says his new film Taking Woodstock is an effort to avoid "tragic" subject matter.
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The rule that no two Ang Lee movies are ever the same is confidently kept intact with the release of his latest, Taking Woodstock, a comedy about the true story behind the Woodstock music festival in 1969. It follows romantic wartime drama Lust, Caution and the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain on the director's CV and arrives in UK cinemas this week. As RT sits down with Lee to ask his five favourite...
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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Website Read our review Ang Lee interview
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
ANG Lee looks out of place. The 55-year-old Oscar-winning director jumps to his feet when I enter the room, immediately on ceremony. He seems a bit baffled, like he's just
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Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Rhino presents... Taking Woodstock Soundtrack Released on November 9th. New Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) comedy Taking Woodstock, released in the UK on November 13, 2009 vividly captures the unique spirit of the legendary Woodstock music festival and now the film's much-talked about soundtrack looks set to take music fans of all ages back to the summer of '69.
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Backseat Cuddler (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Director Ang Lee is adapting the book Life of Pi into a feature length film. Speaking recently with Digital Spy, Lee mentioned that he’s recently turned in his first draft of the script, and that we can probably expect it in two years. He hasn’t thought about casting as of yet. The story follows a young Indian boy [...]
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Even though Taking Woodstock wasn't as big of a success as he had hoped, Taiwanese director Ang Lee is moving on forward with his head held high. It was first announced in February that Lee would be the latest to take as shot at adapting Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi, about an Indian boy who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan...
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MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Ang Lee hasn't had much mainstream success since he won an Oscar for directing "Brokeback Mountain" a few years back. His follow-up was the hard-to-distribute NC-17-rated Chinese period romance "Lust, Caution." Then, this past summer he released the much broader "Taking Woodstock," a comic look at a singular true story behind the scenes of the [...]
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Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
A boy, a tiger, an orangutan, and the director of Hulk in a boat.
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JoBlo (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
LIFE OF PI is a bestselling novel by Yann Martel which tells the story of a young Indian boy set adrift on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a multitude of zoo animals, including one very dangerous tiger. If this sounds like a bit of a WTF concept to you, it should be no surprise that diverse director extraordinaire Ang Lee is going to helm the film adaptation of the book, or at least that’s...
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