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...protean talent. It's hard to square volcanic passions, after all, with a man who once told an interviewer that one of his favorite restaurants was KFC. Lee's movies, too, often revolve around the repression of overwhelming emotion. In his wuxia epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, swords and fists became stand-ins for everything the martial characters couldn't say. Brokeback Mountain's cowboys suffered for love they could not acknowledge. Even Lee's Hulk was an exploration of suppressed rage, its green marauder an embodiment of the unleashed id. "I lead a very mundane, normal life," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infernal Affair | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...made a habit of teaching Hollywood how little it knows about audiences, proving broad crowds would embrace a gay Western (Brokeback Mountain) and show up for a subtitled martial arts flick (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). With his new film, the NC-17-rated, Mandarin-language spy thriller Lust, Caution, the Oscar-winning director is once again ignoring the rules of commercial filmmaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Ang Lee | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

...self-trained illustrator who specializes in pen on paper. His notable works include Alien Fighting Dragon as well as the epic Robot Dragon. His work has been displayed throughout eastern Nebraska, most notably, on the refrigerator of Steve Batter, who “normally doesn’t put stuff on the fridge.” Catch his latest masterpieces every Tuesday, right here in The Harvard Crimson...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Crimson Editorial Board is Pleased to Announce its Fall 2007 Cartoonists | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...Love the Equinox...a Lot It’s the autumn equinox, and everyone knows what we do to celebrate — “RiverSing: Bridging the Charles with Voice and Light!” Right? There’ll be music, as well as a Chinese dragon boat! Sunday September 23, starting at 5:45 p.m. Winthrop Park in Harvard Square. 5) “Hey, You Read Firejoemorgan Too? What a Coincidence!” “From Box Scores to BABIP: A History of Baseball Statistics.” Dig out those old copies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get out! | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...sumptuous Mata Hari melodrama that measures out its many luxurious over a 2-1/2hr. running time, Lust, Caution (from a short story by the late novelist and screenwriter Eileen Chang) is in a way the perfect blending of Ang Lee's two most popular films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. Like the first, it returns the Taiwanese native to China for a tale of political intrigue; like the second, it locates the passion, melancholy and power struggles of two complicated people. In a new book that includes the movie's original story, script and comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Lust, Toronto-Style | 9/8/2007 | See Source »

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