Brokeback Mountain Articles

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain As I sit here writing, I am finding it hard to gather my thoughts together. Most of this essay has already been outlined, and yet I’m still not sure if it fully expresses my feelings toward Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain. I realize that although there is a certain amount of objectivity that goes into judging the merits of a [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Review: Part II Ironically, Ledger has great chemistry in his scenes with (his then real-life partner) Michelle Williams, who, as Ennis’ frustrated wife, Alma, provides Brokeback Mountain with its most touching performance. Williams’ reaction when she sees her husband kissing Jack in front of their apartment building is a classic moment of great screen [...]

Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger (top); Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway (bottom) BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Review: Part I Jack’s frustration with Ennis leads to excessive drinking and to the search for companionship elsewhere. "You have no idea how bad it gets!" he yells at Ennis in the film’s climactic confrontation scene. "… I wish I knew how to quit you." Such all-consuming yearning is meant [...]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) Direction: Ang Lee Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Kate Mara Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana; from E. Annie Proulx’s short story Oscar Movies, European Film Award movies Recommended with Reservations Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is without a doubt a culturally significant motion picture. The same-sex romantic drama [...]