Ang Lee

I do love festival season. There is something magical about listening to great music in a muddy field for 3 days before coming home smelling of cow shit. I’ve spent many happy times at Glastonbury and I will never forget listening to Metallica play their seminal album Master Of Puppets in its entirety at Download festival 2006. Unfortunately, I am too young to have lived through the 60s & 70s. These were the decades when music and cinema actually mattered. Names such as Hendrix, Joplin and...Read Full Story

It might not have been have been buzzed about as some of the other films in competition, but Ang Lee 's new WWII-era erotic espionage thriller " Lust Caution ," surprised many by running away with the top prize at the Venice Film Festival this weekend. The Taiwanese director, who won the 2006 Oscar for directing, " Brokeback Mountain ," also captured the same Venice top prize with his gay cowboy movie two years ago and dedicated his award to the recently passed Swedish film titan, Ingmar...Read Full Story

The official screenplay book to the new film from Academy Award® winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), starring Demetri Martin. Includes a color portfolio with production notes, historical images and movie stills. Taking Woodstock is inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. It’s 1969, and Elliot, an interior designer in Greenwich Village, has to move back...Read Full Story

Ang Lee says he's baffled by the poor box office results of "Taking Woodstock" — the Oscar-winning director's worst-performing English-language movie in the U.S. in 10 years. The Focus Features comedy, which chronicles the buildup to the 1969 rock 'n' roll gathering that drew half a million fans, had earned $7.4 million in the U.S. as of Monday, according to the box office tracking Web site Box Office Mojo. It's Lee's worst outing at the box office for an English film since "Ride with the...Read Full Story

Ang Lee is in upstate New York for the first of several U.S. screenings of his upcoming movie "Taking Woodstock." Lee and screenwriter/producer James Schamus are attending a benefit screening of the movie Thursday night in rural Columbia County, near where some scenes for the movie were filmed last year. "Taking Woodstock" is based on a memoir by Elliot Tiber and chronicles the lead-up to the concert that drew half a million people to a farm in the Catskills. The movie opens next month around...Read Full Story