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  • Lee's kids urged him to take drugs - 29 October 2009
    -Oscar-winning moviemaker Ang Lee was stunned when his kids told him to try drugs to make his new Taking Woodstock movie more authentic.- -The director's new film is based on the iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival in New York and features a psychedelic sequence


  • Tarantino & Lee among Cannes nominees - 24 April 2009
    -Quentin Tarantino's new movie Inglourious Basterds and Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock are among the nominees for the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme d'Or award.- -Tarantino's World War II drama, starring Brad Pitt, tells the story of a group of Jewish-Ameri


  • Ang Lee to head Venice Film jury - 28 February 2009
    -Oscar-winning moviemaker Ang Lee has been chosen to select the winners at the upcoming Venice Film Festival in Italy.- -The Taiwanese-born director has been named the head of the jury at the 2009 event, which will take place in September (09).- - The highlight

Ang Lee - what members say


  • The Ice Storm
  • The Ice Storm review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars A compelling, emotionally charged drama 4 May 2004
    ...The versatile Ang Lee came up trumps again with this absorbing drama. The film charts the increasingly complex relationships between two suburban New England families ...   Read customer review
  • Ride With The Devil
  • Ride With The Devil review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Civil War Renegades Run Wild 11 March 2008
    ... Firstly the photography was excellent and well up the standard now expected of Ang Lee. The cast worked their socks off to put in a memorable performance that was ...   Read customer review
  • Sense And Sensibility
  • Sense And Sensibility review by A customer from Midlands, UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars Better than the book? 30 December 2004
    ...tations of varying quality in recent years, but this film, directed superbly by Ang Lee with a faultless cast is undoubtedly the best. Costume, cinematography, music, ...   Read customer review

Ang Lee - filmography


  • Taking Woodstock - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Dan Fogler,  Adam LeFevre,  Kevin Chamberlain
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It is 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a failing interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has moved back home to help his parents run their dilapidated motel. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn't paid the insurance; and Elliot is still deciding how to "..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 22 members
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  • Taking Woodstock (2009)
    Starring: Demetri Martin,  Imelda Staunton,  Henry Goodman
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It is 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a failing interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has moved back home to help his parents run their dilapidated motel. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn't paid the insurance; and Elliot is still deciding how to "..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 120 members
    Not available for rental
  • Hollywood Chinese (2008)
    Starring: Turhan Bey,  Joan Chen,  Tsai Chin
    Director: Arthur Dong
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, this documentary is a voyage through a century of cinematic delights, intrigues and treasures. It weaves together a ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 5 members
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  • Lust, Caution on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Joan Chen,  Tony Leung Chiu-wai,  Tang Wei
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi (Tang Wei), gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung).
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 19,424 members
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  • Brokeback Mountain - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Heath Ledger,  Anne Hathaway,  Jake Gyllenhaal
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author E. Annie Proulx, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is the tragic and moving story of two cowboys who unexpectedly fall in love while working together one summer in 1963. When the film begins, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch-hand Ennis ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,163 members
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  • Brokeback Mountain on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Heath Ledger,  Michelle Williams
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, Brokeback Mountain . Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men -- a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy -- who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 75,276 members
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  • Hulk - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Jennifer Connelly,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,147 members
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  • Hulk on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Jennifer Connelly,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 32,862 members
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  • Hulk - HD (2003)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Jennifer Connelly,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 535 members
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  • The Art Of Action on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Jackie Chan,  Jet Li
    Director: Keith Clarke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This in-depth documentary gives a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the martial arts film--from its rebellious beginnings to the high-flying epics of today. Host Samuel L. Jackson takes you through the best moments of 100 films, including CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, CHARLIE'S ANGELS, and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 194 members
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  • Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Chow Yun-Fat,  Michelle Yeoh,  Zhang Ziyi
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Known for making films about familial relationships, director Ang Lee surprised everyone with his martial arts epic CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Based on a novel by Wang Du Lu, CROUCHING TIGER starts with the revenge plot common in the wuxia stories that Lee loved as a child, then adds a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 42,201 members
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  • Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Ziyi Zhang,  Yan Hai,  Li Li
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Known for making films about familial relationships, director Ang Lee surprised everyone with his martial arts epic CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Based on a novel by Wang Du Lu, CROUCHING TIGER starts with the revenge plot common in the wuxia stories that Lee loved as a child, then adds a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,615 member
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  • Ride With The Devil on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Tobey Maguire,  Skeet Ulrich,  Jeffrey Wright
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Ang Lee follows up the critically acclaimed THE ICE STORM with this look at the bloody, intense conflict between the pro-Confederate Bushwackers and the pro-Union Jayhawkers in Missouri during the Civil War. Pitting neighbor against neighbor, the war in the frontier state tested personal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,921 member
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  • The Ice Storm on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Sigourney Weaver,  Joan Allen
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It is Thanksgiving 1973, and the Carvers and the Hoods are two prototypical suburban families seemingly living the good life in New Canaan, Connecticut. Behind their New Age philosophies and polyester fashions, however, lies deep discontent. One husband carries on an unsatisfying affair with the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 8,737 members
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  • Sense And Sensibility on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Alan Rickman,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 13,082 members
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  • Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
    Starring: Sihung Lung,  Yu-Wen Wang
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Trouble is brewing for old Mr. Chu, Taipei's greatest chef. He is losing his sense of taste and his patience with his three ungrateful daughters. Over the course of several, torturous Sunday family dinners, many shocking situations arise: someone gets pregnant, someone gets dumped, someone dies and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 455 members
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  • Pushing Hands (1992)
    Starring: Bin Chao,  Lester Chit-Man Chan,  Fanny De Luz
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Master Chu, a retired Chinese tai-chi master, moves to Westchester, New York to live with his son Alex. A small gem of a film whose resolution offers much warmth.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 26 members
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Ang Lee facts

5 most recent films

Taking Woodstock - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Taking Woodstock - 3.5 stars
Hollywood Chinese - 1.5 stars
Lust, Caution - 3.5 stars
Brokeback Mountain - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Eat Drink Man Woman - 4.0 stars
The Wedding Banquet - 4.0 stars
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Sense And Sensibility - 3.5 stars
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Hollywood Chinese - 1.5 stars
Taking Woodstock - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Pushing Hands - 3.5 stars
Hulk - 2.5 stars
The Art Of Action - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sihung Lung - 3 times - show films
Eric Bana - 3 times - show films
Sam Elliott - 3 times - show films
Chow Yun-Fat - 3 times - show films
Nick Nolte - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Arthur Dong - 1 times - show films
Keith Clarke - 1 times - show films