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...Ang Lee directs a timeless fable that takes place in Detroit in the years of the Yankee dynasty. The disappearance of a magical bat, symbolic of the Tigers' ability to hit in previous years, accompanies skyrocketing salaries in Major League Baseball. Chow Yun Fat masterfully portrays the part of Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner who is unable to use the sweeping powers the owners granted him to remedy the salary situation...
...series, and this summer's "Tomb Raider," with Angelina Jolie as supervixen Lara Croft. Consider, and savor, the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," the all-time top-grossing foreign-language film that was set to hit the $100 million mark at the North American box office last weekend. Ang Lee's martial arts fantasy features two strong women, a 30ish warrior (Michelle Yeoh) and a willful teen (Zhang Ziyi) just discovering to what uses, good or ill, she may put her powers of physical levitation and female cunning...
While one man (Soderdergh) was nominated for two films, one film (Crouching Tiger) was nominated as Best Film twice?once in the main category, the other in the Foreign Language Film niche. Ang Lee's Mandarin masterpiece of martial artistry (officially a Taiwanese entry) will win the "lesser" prize, the one in which films from every country but the U.S. compete as equal. The movie is something of a critical and popular phenomenon in North America; it is already the all-time top-grossing foreign language film, with $60 million in the till so far and hopes of reaching...
Alas for its fans, most of the movie's assets are also possessed by Gladiator, which is in English. The arguments for Ang Lee's Chinese film reinforce the ones for Ridley Scott's Anglo-American one. Traffic could best them both, if the Academy wants to reward modern, jagged, serious entertainment. But if the members are thinking old and epic, it will probably be old West (ancient Rome), not old East (Qing dynasty). In other words: if the winner can be Crouching Tiger, it will be Gladiator...
...RELATED Asia's Fine Performance The region's filmmakers score big at this year's Cannes festival, winning four of the top prizes (6/5/2000) Back to China In the martial-arts drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee and a cast of big stars struggle with moviemaking on the mainland (11/29/99) PHOTO ESSAY On Set With Ang Lee Elaborate sets, derring-do and big stars are all found in the martial-arts drama "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...