Word: anges
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Famed director Ang Lee recently went in front of the camera to sing “Victory, Illinois” for a University of Illinois ad. Roger Ebert, Robert Novak and other famous alums appear in the spot, which runs...
...office success of Chinese kung-fu movies has in turn revived kalarippayat. Indian filmmakers, hoping to mimic the high-kicking fights and gravity-defying leaps in Jet Li's Romeo Must Die and Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, are hiring kalarippayat fighters and teachers like Kumar as stuntmen. They're even making sure Bollywood stars have basic training. "Even five years ago, Kerala martial arts had nearly died out," says Kumar, who with his two brothers runs C.V.N. Kalari Sangham in Calicut, among the best known schools in the country. "Now suddenly it is popular again...
...selection of flavor-of-the-month Ang Lee as best American film director had more to do with hype and fashion than artistry or achievement. How could Lee be chosen over a far more accomplished filmmaker like Robert Altman? He continues to create works of passion and originality at an age (76) when most directors are far past their prime. His influence can be felt in the most exciting films of recent years, and he has worked in just about every film genre known to man. In a field of imitators, Altman is an innovator--one of the best America...
...Ang Lee is America's best film director, eh? Best--well, fine--but American? Lee, who was born and raised in Taiwan; who brings a very Mandarin delicacy to his subjects; who has shot most of his features in distant climes (Taipei for Pushing Hands and Eat Drink Man Woman, rural England for Sense and Sensibility, mainland China for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon); who has never made a movie in Hollywood; and whose name, correctly put, is Lee Ang...That Ang...
...career that keeps maturing and surprising, Lee is about to direct his first Hollywood film--The Incredible Hulk. An outsider with amazing powers: he could be a very American hero. He could be Ang...