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Directed by Ang Lee Focus Features 5 Stars The cultural pressure placed on “Brokeback Mountain” to be a commercial and artistic success has been, to say the least, staggering. Perhaps unfairly, renaissance-man director Ang Lee (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) and his two cowboys are expected to deliver the “Big Gay Love Story”—epic, sexy, tear-jerking, and with just enough political consciousness to please its liberal target audience. I’ve always been a fan of the devil?...
...gracefully in Rob Marshall’s (“Chicago”) production of “Memoirs of a Geisha.” “Memoirs of a Geisha” boasts an acting team of international superstars like Zhang, Michelle Yeoh (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), and Gong Li (“The Emperor and the Assassin”), talented big-name producers like Steven Spielberg and Gary Barber, and the plot line of the bestselling novel by Arthur S. Golden ’78. The resulting expectations are completely satisfied...
...indie rock of their last release, 2003’s “The New Romance.” They’ll be joined by bands The Double and Tangiers. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. $10. (JSA)Grizzly Bear with Tom Thumb & the Latter Day Saints and Tiger Saw. According to Spin Magazine, “The Grizz offer tender and creepy folk mantras that function as a Paxil substitute or antidote, depending on your disposition.” Openers are Tiger Saw at 9:15 p.m. and Tom Thumb & the Latter Day Saints...
...citizens would include in their burial tombs. Pieces like this sculpture portray animals of the real world. But, Mowry says, that “we wanted to show there are more animals than just horses.” Beyond these equestrian pieces are animals as diverse as the monkey, tiger, and snake. Animals of the fantasy world include the dragon and phoenix. In “Dragon amid Clouds,” a hanging scroll from the Choson dynasty of Korea in the nineteenth century, an orange and green dragon is offset by black and white clouds. The dragon...
...seem like every critic, journalist, and arthouse scenester on either side of the Rockies feels obligated to attach this particularly fallacious appellation to this here “Mountain?”In an interview with The Crimson, conducted in Los Angeles, director Ang Lee (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) and Gyllenhaal offer their own thoughts on the movie, its making, and why it needs to be seen before it’s branded. Lee takes the first shot, scoffing at the “gay cowboy” label. “The best...