I fail to see how the number of movies you direct makes you either a great
or not so great director.
I believe Kubrik only directed about 20 movies give or take a few...
Cheers,
Vesna
> RE: Lee is unquestionably one of the great directors...
>
> I question that Phil - "Hulk" was such a poor film.
>
> Ang Lee has made three good Chinese-language films, I'll give him that,
But
> I don't think he can be classed as one of the greats just yet.....He's
made
> 10 films
>
> Steven Spielberg - Age 60, made 106 films
> Francis Ford Coppola - Age 67, made 66 films
> Martin Scorsese - Age 64, made 42 films
> Bernardo Bertolucci - Age 65, made 22 films
> Quentin Tarantino - Age 43, made 18 films
>
> These are all "Great" Directors
>
> Looks like Ang Lee has got a bit of catching up to be classed as
a "Great"
> Director in my book
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Phil Edwards Cinema Arts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Phil Edwards Cinema Arts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [MOPO] ANG LEE
> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:40:29 +1100
>
> I'd have to rate Ang Lee as one of the most interesting directors I've
> ever met and/or interviewed. He was in Australia promoting THE WEDDING
> BANQUET. At the time I was editing a local movie trade publication and
> the publicist on the project invited me for a tete-a-tete dinner and
> interview cruising Sydney Harbour. The distributor was desperate for
> trade publicity for this completely unknown film and its director and as
> the journal I edited went directly to exhibitors who took some notice of
> our recommendations in the indie sphere it was decidedly with a vested
> interest in their project. These things can be a drag for both sides,
> but this was a definite delight because Ang and discovered we both
> LOVED movies and the way they worked.
>
> Ang was charming and completely forthright about how the film was made
> on a budget of about HALF the publicised figure ("How's anybody going to
> want to see a film made for a hundred thousand dollars?" he said. And so
> the budget for this already low budget movie was "increased" for
> publicity purposes. Those that have seen it, or Ang's previous film
> PUSHING HANDS and the later EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN, know that he is a
> remarkably astute film maker.
>
> What was fascinating... and this was only apparent later in his career
> and subsequent films, was that when I asked him about what sort of films
> he wanted to make, he said (albeit not verbatim without digging out my
> original i/v tapes), "I want to make the best film I can in every genre.
> I like all films. I want to make the best martial arts film I can. I
> think there is a way of doing it that hasn't been done before, and I
> want to make a western..." which he did long before BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
> in the sadly under-rated RIDE WITH THE DEVIL. Similarly, his THE ICE
> STORM was somewhat dismissed, but I don't doubt for aminute was a major
> influence on AMERICAN BEAUTY two years later.
>
> Emma Thompson obviously recognised in Lee his ability to undertsand the
> humanity of the characters in his work (and yes, even THE HULK has many
> people who see beyond its CGI overkill and find it one of the more
> fascinating studies of a "tormented superhero") and found him just right
> for her screenplay of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.
>
> Lee is unquestionably one of the great directors, and one whose range
> across many aspects of the medium of film is masterful. I have no doubt
> that BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is right up there with his best work. He's not
> afraid of presenting confronting human emotions, and you don't need to
> see BROKEBACK to see that. Get a hold of THE ICE STORM, also a film of
> true emotional depth and issues that are never comfortable to deal with
> - both in films or in life, but often have to be.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> Susan Heim wrote:
>
> >Well........all this talk about stickin' a needle in your eye and rump
> >rangling.......I can't wait to see this movie now! And to think I was
> >just going to see it because I love Ang Lee and both the guys are cute!
> >
> >Sue
> >
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> > - David (who's so very gay) Kusumoto. Wait'll I tell my wife
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