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The 14 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘News Of The World,’ ‘Collective,’ ‘World Of Wong Kar-Wai’ & More

March 30, 2021 1:35 pm

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spl...

Ang Lee Thinks Movie Theaters Need To “Upgrade” To Survive & Continues Push For 3D And High Frame Rate

Charles Barfield

January 20, 2021 12:12 pm

Box Office, News

There are filmmakers working today that not only see themselves as storytellers, but they see themselves as the folks carrying the torch in the fight to push the medium of film forward into the future. You hav...

Ang Lee Talks Difficulties “Upgrading A B-Movie” While Making ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’

Charles Barfield

January 13, 2021 1:51 pm

News

Believe it or not, it’s been 20 years since “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” arrived in theaters. The film would go on to be nominated for 10 Oscars in 2001 (a record for a non-English-language film at the tim...

Watch Taylor Swift’s New Music Video ‘Cardigan,’ Shot By Scorsese Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto

Kambole Campbell

July 24, 2020 9:30 am

News, Video

Accompanying the surprise release of her new album Folklore (the visual art for which has some Robert Eggers-esque leanings), Taylor Swift released a new music video for her song “Cardigan” last night. Direct...

Ang Lee’s Science Experiment, ‘Gemini Man,’ Might Lose $75 Million After Chinese Audiences Don’t Save The Day

Charles Barfield

October 23, 2019 1:34 pm

Box Office, News

Ang Lee knew, coming into the release of “Gemini Man,” that he was taking a big risk. Even before the film’s launch in theaters, the filmmaker talked about how he is willing to take a critical beating in favor ...

‘Avatar’ Sequels Won’t Use High Frame Rate Technology Because James Cameron Doesn’t Think It’s “The Next Big Thing”

Charles Barfield

October 22, 2019 1:45 pm

News

Ang Lee is a filmmaker that takes chances. He really swings for the fences with each and every project he releases, much like his peer, James Cameron. And lately, the films that Lee is releasing, though ambitio...

‘Gemini Man’: Ang Lee Makes A Motion-Smoothing, Fresh Prince Deep Fakes, Dad Jokes Sci-Fi Actioner With Will Smith

Rodrigo Perez

October 9, 2019 5:01 pm

Features, News, Reviews

Given how he can expertly craft beautifully detailed and intimate dramas when he wants, it does a disservice to describe filmmaker Ang Lee as an Asian analog to James Cameron. That said, there's a similar prose...

No U.S. Theaters Will Have The Ability To Show Ang Lee’s ‘Gemini Man’ As The Director Intended

Charles Barfield

October 8, 2019 2:14 pm

News

Honestly, you wouldn’t be blamed if all you know about Ang Lee’s upcoming film, “Gemini Man,” is that it stars Will Smith and is using some crazy mixtures of technology to bring a whole new level of immersion t...

Ang Lee Is Determined To Show “Brainwashed” Audiences That High Frame Rate Films Are The Future

Charles Barfield

October 3, 2019 2:27 pm

News

When you look at the filmography of Ang Lee, it paints a bit of a confusing picture. The Oscar-winning director has done everything from “Sense and Sensibility” and “Lust, Caution” to “Crouching Tiger, Hidden D...

Ang Lee Says The 3D And High Frame Rate Used In ‘Gemini Man’ Is A “New Kind Of Filmmaking”

Charles Barfield

September 19, 2019 3:15 pm

News

At this point, the main discussion surrounding director Ang Lee’s upcoming film, “Gemini Man,” is less about the content of the film and more about all the technological wizardry that went into its creation. Fa...

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