Ang Lee Articles

Harrison Ford in Andrew Davis' DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated The Fugitive (top); Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins in Robert Altman's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated Short Cuts (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1980s: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, David Lynch 1990 DGA Barry Levinson, Avalon Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso [the 1988 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner; ineligible for the 1990 Academy [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Meditations on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Part III: Technical Brilliance Now, leaving behind its technical and analytical aspects, I should add that Brokeback Mountain reached me on a deeper level — in a manner that's all but impossible to explain — like no other movie had done before. In high school, I always loved movies; yet, I always [...]

Heath Ledger's Ennis Del Mar, Jake Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Meditations on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Part II: Ennis Del Mar – Iconic Film Character Moving on to another area of the film, I must add that Brokeback Mountain works just as beautifully from a purely cinematic standpoint. Let me analyze one short scene as an example of the brilliance of Ang Lee's [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Meditations on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Part I: Multilayered Love Story People make fun of Jack Twist's line, "I wish I knew how to quit you", but that line is heartbreaking for the honesty it conveys. He literally does. In many ways, Jack's love for Ennis has done more harm than good to him. And the same goes [...]