Ang Lee

Interviews

Karla Rae Fuller

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781626745797
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has won an Academy Award two times for Best Director--the first Asian to win--for films as different as a small drama about gay cowboys in Brokeback Mountain (2005), and the 3D technical wizardry in Life of Pi (2012). He has garnered numerous accolades and awards worldwide.Lee has made a broad range of movies, including his so-called "Father Knows Best" trilogy made up of his first three films: Pushing Hands (1992), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), as well as 1970s period drama The Ice Storm (1997), martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), superhero blockbuster Hulk (2003), and hippie retro trip Taking Woodstock (2009).Thoughtful and passionate, Lee humbly reveals here a personal journey that brought him from Taiwan to his chosen home in the United States as he struggled and ultimately triumphed in his quest to become a superb filmmaker. Ang Lee: Interviews collects the best interviews of this reticent yet bold figure.

Key Resources

Pushing Hands

Lowenstein, Stephen. “Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands.” My First Movie. Ed. Stephen Lowenstein. New York: Pantheon, 2000. 361–81.

The Wedding Banquet

Berry, Chris. “Taiwanese Melodrama Returns with a Twist in the Wedding Banquet.” Cinemaya no. 21 (October 1993): 52–54.

Berry, Chris. “The New Face of Taiwanese Cinema: An Interview with Ang Lee.” Metro, no. 96, (December 1993): 40–41.

Horn, Andrew. “The Wedding Banquet.” Screen International, no. 897 (March 5, 1993): 22.

Lee, Ang, and Tony Chan. “Dinner for Two.” Filmmaker 1, no. 4 (July 1993): 22–23.

Leung, William. “So Queer Yet So Straight: Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet and Brokeback Mountain.” Journal of Film and Video 60, no. 1 (April 2008): 23–42.

Spines, Christine. “Indie Jones.” Premiere 6, no. 12 (August 1993): 51.

Eat Drink Man Woman

Byrge, Duane. “Eat Drink Man Woman.” Hollywood Reporter 332, no. 14 (May 17, 1994): 7, 14.

Comer, Brooke. “Eat Drink Man Woman: A Feast for the Eyes.” American Cinematographer 76, no. 1 (January 1995): 62–67.

Dawes, Amy. “Lee Eats, Drinks, Sleeps Films.” Moving Pictures International, no. 191 (June 30, 1994): 15.

Errigo, Angie. “New Films.” Empire, no. 68 (February 1995): 31.

Nathan, Ian. “Global Village: Independent, Foreign, Arthouse: Ang Lee.” Empire, no. 68 (February 1995): 48–49.

Sense and Sensibility

Cramer, Barbara. “Film Reviews.” Films in Review 47, no. 3/4 (March 1996): 65–66.

Farrow, Boyd. “Reviews.” Screen International, no. 1039 (January 1996): 26.

Finnane, Gabriel. “Remarks on Jane Austen and the Period Film.” Metro, no. 106 (July 1996): 4–12.

Fuller, Graham. “Shtick and Seduction.” Sight and Sound 6, no. 3 (March 1996): 24.

Fuller, Graham. “Cautionary Tale.” Sight and Sound 6, no. 3 (March 1996): 20–22.

Gant, Charles. “The Numbers: Austen Power.” Sight and Sound 15, no. 11 (November 2005): 8.

Geraghty, Christine. “Crossing Over: Performing as a Lady and a Dame.” Screen 43, no. 1 (April 2002): 41–56.

Gray, Beverly. “Sense & Sensibility: A Script Review.” Creative Screenwriting 4, no. 2 (July 1997): 74–82.

Hendrickson, Nancy. “License & Liability: Collaborating with Jane Austen.” Creative Screenwriting 4, no. 2 (July 1997): 62–73.

Leung, William. “Crouching Sensibility, Hidden Sense.” Film Criticism 26, no. 1 (October 2001): 42–55.

Lyons, Donald. “Passionate Precision.” Film Comment 32, no. 1 (January 1996): 36–41.

McFarlane, Brian. “Verbal Concepts, Moving Images.” Cinema Papers, no. 110 (June 1996): 30–32, 60.

Medhurst, Andy: “Dressing the Part.” Sight and Sound 6, no. 6 (June 1996): 28–30.

Monk, Claire. “Reviews.” Sight and Sound 6, no. 3 (March 1996): 50–51.

Nathan, Ian. “Front Desk Clips: Hugh’s a Clever Boy.” Empire, no. 81 (March 1996): 17.

Welsh, Jim. “A Sensible Screenplay.” Literature/Film Quarterly 24, no. 1 (January 1996): 111–12.

The Ice Storm

Aston, Martin. “New Films.” Neon, February 1998, 86.

Blair, Iain. “Ang Lee.” Film and Video 13, no. 10 (October 1997): 48–50, 59.

Byrge, Duane. “Film Review.” The Hollywood Reporter 347, no. 23 (May 1997): 7, 14.

Cheshire, Godfrey. “The Morning After.” Filmmaker 6, no. 1 (September 1997): 42–43, 89.

David, Andrew. “DVD reviews: The Ice Storm.” Film International 7, no. 3 (May 2009): 70–71.

Dean, Joan. “American Letter: The ’70s, The Way We … Weren’t.” Film West, no. 31 (January 1998): 18–19.

Errigo, Angie. New Films.” Empire, no. 105 (March 1998): 41.

Fisher, Bob. “Fred Elmes, ASC.” Film and Video 13, no. 10 (October 1997): 59.

Flynn, Bob. “People: Ang Lee / Reviews.” Total Film, no. 14 (March 1998): 25, 86.

Francke, Lizzie. “Reviews.” Sight and Sound 8, no. 2 (February 1998): 42.

Fuller, Graham. “Chistina Ricci.” Interview, October 1997, 102–7, 143.

Fuller, Graham. “Three Films That Show How Frozen We Are.” Interview, January 1998, 40.

Handelman, David. “Cheat Drink Man Woman.” Premiere 11, no. 3 (November 1997): 98–115.

Hardesty, Mary. “Ang Lee on Directing in an Ice Storm.” DGA (Los Angeles), September 1997.

Hemblade, Christopher. “Profiles: Joan Allen.” Empire, no. 105 (March 1998): 59.

Hunter, Allan. “Cannes Reviews.” Screen International, no. 1109 (May 1997): 18.

Kirwan, Catherine. “The Ice Storm.” Film Ireland, no. 63 (February 1998): 39–40.

McCarthy, Todd. “Film Reviews.” Variety, May 1997, 49, 50.

Moverman, Oren. “The Angle on Ang Lee.” Interview, September 1997, 64–68.

Westbrook, Caroline. “Front Desk Clips: Tobey Maguire.” Empire, no. 105 (March 1998): 30.

Williams, David E. “Reflections on an Era.” American Cinematographer 78, no. 10 (October 1997): 56–58, 60, 62, 64–65.

Ride with the Devil

Bankston, Douglas. “A Less-than-Civil War.”American Cinematographer 80, no. 11 (November 1999): 66–75.

Calcutt, Ian. “Ride with the Devil.” Film Review, December 1999, 33.

Collins, Andrew. “Films.” Radio Times, November 2004, 53.

Eimer, David. “In Person: Tobey Maguire.” Empire, no. 126 (December 1999): 80–81.

Fuller, Graham. “Reviews: Riders on the Storm.” Sight and Sound 20, no. 6 (June 2010): 92.

Goodridge, Mike. “Ride with the Devil.” Screen International, no. 1229 (October 8, 1999): 50.

Kaufman, Anthony. “Cinema Scope review.” Cinema Scope, no. 1 (September 1999): 30.

Kenny, Glenn. “Ride with the Devil.” Premiere 13, no. 3 (November 1999): 34.

Matthews, Peter. “Reviews.” Sight and Sound 9, no. 12 (December 1999): 34–35, 56.

McCarthy, Todd. “Film Reviews.” Variety, September 13, 1999, 42–43.

Nathan, Ian. “New Films.” Empire, no. 126 (December 1999): 20–21.

Pinsker, Beth. “The Americanization of Lee: Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil.” Iff (International Film Festival Magazine), no. 9 (July 1999): 20–21.

Schwarzbaum, Lisa. “Civil Inaction.” Entertainment Weekly, no. 515 (December 1999): 73.

Thomson, David. “Riding with Ang Lee.” Film Comment 35, no. 6 (November 1999): 4–6, 8–9.

Tibbetts, John C. “The Hard Ride: Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers in the Kansas-Missouri Border Wars—Ride with the Devil.” Literature/Film Quarterly 27, no. 3 (November 1999): 189–95.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo Hu Chang Long)

Arnold, Darren. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Influences.” Metro, no. 129/130 (December 2001): 180–86.

Brown, Colin. “Crouching Tiger’s Hidden Truth.” Screen International, no. 1296 (February 16, 2001): 26.

Caro, Jason. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” Film Review, no. 602 (February 2001): 20–21.

Catania, John. “Enter the (Diaspora) Dragons: Martial Arts Cinema and Globalization.” Metro, no. 148 (April 2006): 96–99.

Chan, Kenneth. “The Global Return of the Wu Xia Pian (Chinese Sword-Fighting Movie): Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” Cinema Journal 43, no. 4 (July 2004): 3–17.

“Chasing the Dragon.” Film Review, no. 600 (December 2000): 60–61.

“Chinese Whispers.” Film...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Filmography
• The New Face of the Taiwanese Cinema: An Interview with Ang Lee, Director of The Wedding Banquet
• Ang Lee Returned to His Native Taiwan to Make Eat Drink Man Woman
• Eat Drink Man Woman: A Feast for the Eyes
• Schtick and Seduction
• The Angle on Ang Lee
• The Morning After
• Ride with the Devil: Ang Lee Interview
• Ang Lee and James Schamus
• Enter the Dragon
• Ang Lee Tackles the Hulk
• Ride the High Country
• Firestorm
• Cruel Intentions
• Based on a Truly Gay Story
• Ang Lee Interview for Taking Woodstock
• Crossing Borders
• Spinning Platters Interview: Ang Lee on Life of Pi
• Interview: Ang Lee on the Journey of Bringing Life of Pi to the Screen
• Ang Lee Interview: How He Filmed the Unfilmable for Life of Pi
• Key Resources
• Index