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...public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas with Platform, a three-hour series of elegant tableaux about a music group that evolves from agit-prop in 1979 to Mandarin pop a decade later...
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...
...supervised the buoyant action scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?the pursuit by Michelle Yeoh of Zhang Ziyi across a courtyard and over rooftops; the same antagonists' fierce swordfight; the balletic battle of Zhang and Chow Yun-fat on bamboo treetops?that lifted Ang Lee's Mandarin drama out of the art houses to become the top-grossing foreign-language film in U.S. history? Why, that ballistic Balanchine, that kung-fu Fosse, that martial master?Yuen Wo-ping...
...only exclusive interview ? 'It's Emotional and Dramatic': Michelle Yeoh is no stranger to action-packed films, but the going was tough in Ang Lee's surefire hit ? 'I Thought I Was Going to Have a Stroke': Exclusive Web-only interview with Crouching Tiger director Ang Lee ? 'Speaking Mandarin Was Like Speaking Shakespeare': Chow Yun-fat on martial arts, Hollywood and mastering another language...
...could be Kim Novak in Vertigo, hijacked into a James M. Cain plot and photographed in the grainy, high-contrast glamour of a Wong Kar-wai romance. Lou Ye lays out a ravishing wasteland of femmes fatales and lovelorn tough guys--all in 79 minutes. So it's in Mandarin? After Crouching Tiger that's no longer an excuse for missing a terrific movie. Whatever city this one is showing in...move there...