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...argue, conservative) cinema, having been won over by the likes of sex, lies and videotape, Wild at Heart, Barton Fink (1989-91), Pulp Fiction (1994), Elephant (2003) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). But with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds the only fully American entry in the running - Taking Woodstock by Ang Lee is generally considered part-American, part-Taiwanese - it was always likely that the Palme d'Or would remain in the hands of world cinema. And so it has proved, via the Austrian Haneke's White Ribbon victory. Cue the debate...
...there's also a healthy representation of star directors known around the world. Ang Lee - whose Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon premiered at Cannes before becoming the U.S.' all-time top-grossing foreign-language film not made by Mel Gibson - is back with Taking Woodstock. It's a quasi-fact-based tale about the seeds of the 1969 music festival; Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber and Comedy Central's Demetri Martin are the headliners...
Actually, the diminished returns for MI3 had less to do with the director's stewardship than with Tom Cruise's waning star power. On his Enterprise enterprise Abrams summoned Leonard Nimoy out of a black hole to play an elder Mr. Spock, and Eric Bana, star of the lambasted Ang Lee version of The Hulk, for the bad-guy role of Nero. But Chris Pine (young Kirk) and Zachary Quinto (young Spock) are actors not previously seen on a movie marquee; they might not even be in FaceBook. The film's biggest on-screen name is probably Winona Ryder, hard...
...words are untangled, a thoughtful attempt to embrace all of human experience is revealed.Despite the deliberate structure of 10 groups of 10 14-line sonnets, the collection’s overarching narrative remains confusing. Each of the 10 sections has its own quasi-plot: a woman named Ang suffers through a relationship, a woman falls in love with a painter, a man named Lam flees the scene of a murder and ends up at an airport in Georgia. The characters are little more than ciphers, though, and they often disappear when thematic commentary is to be delivered, only to reappear...
...matter of economics. Filmmakers don't want to limit their audiences in terms of the number of people that can buy tickets. But I'd like to see nothing more than an appealing director make a very good film that goes out with an 'NC-17' like Ang Lee did with Lust, Caution. Then again, that was a foreign language film, so it didn't appeal to as many people as an English language film would...