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Leo and Kate: They Didn't Go Down With The Ship

John Farr | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Aviator, Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Titanic, Sense and Sensibility, Martin Scorsese, Best Movies by Farr, Infernal Affairs, Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin, Todd Field, Ang Lee, Gangs of New York, Jackie Earle Haley, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jennifer Connelly, The Departed, James Cameron, Revolutionary Road, Catch Me if You Can, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Dicaprio, Sam Mendes, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment News
John Farr

Here's hoping Leo and Kate do many more films together. But for now, let's celebrate their careers to-date with a sampling of their more interesting, lesser-known work, both pre-and post-Titanic.

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HuffPost Review: Bright Star

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Jane Campion, John Keats, Bright Star Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Campion's film Bright Star is about the love of beauty -- particularly the ability of poetry to move the soul -- and about longing.

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Ang Lee's Movies: Which Is Your Favorite? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Slidepoll, Sense-and-Sensibility, Eat-Drink-Man-Woman, Ang Lee, The Wedding Banquet, Hulk, Pushing-Hands, Ride With the Devil, Lust-Caution, The Ice Storm, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News

'Taking Woodstock,' Ang Lee's loving portrait of the behind-the-scenes buildup to the 1969 music festival, opened Friday. Unsurprisingly, it looks lik...

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Q&A: Actor Jonathan Groff's Charmed, Provocative Life On Stage and In Film

Brad Balfour | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Ang Lee, The Bacchae, Hair, Duncan Sheik, Michael Lang, Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening, Taking Woodstock, Off-Broadway, Broadway Plays, New York News
Brad Balfour

Jonathan Groff has starred in Hair on Broadway, played Dionysus in The Public Theater, and will play impresario Michael Lang in Taking Woodstock.

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Movie Review: Taking Woodstock

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Taking Woodstock Movie Review, Woodstock, Demetri Martin, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is as unlikely and enjoyable a memento of that long-gone moment in the age of Aquarius as we're likely to find in this 40th anniversary year of the epochal rock festival.

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Remembering Don Hewitt, Taking Woodstock, Michael Vick and More

Alec Baldwin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Don Hewitt Dead, Don Hewitt, Michael Vick, CBS News, Cbs, 60 Minutes, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News
Alec Baldwin

Sunday nights have been sacred television time in my house for years now. That's thanks to David Chase and, especially, to Don Hewitt and the cast, producers and staff of 60 Minutes.

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An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Inner Circle, The O'Jays, Imogen Heap, The Adventures, Janis Ian, Cate Bros., Rubicon, Daryl Hall & John Oates, The Beach Boys, Woody Guthrie, Eric Burdon, REO Speedwagon, Otis Redding, Now That's What I Call Country, Matt Hires, Mark Schultz, Jack Ingram, Smile Empty Soul, Roy Hargrove, Billy Ocean, Cheap Trick, Rory Gallagher, David Guetta, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Michael Bolton, Queen Latifah, Matisyahu, Robert Glasper, The Roy Hargrove Big Band, Cass Elliot, Neil Diamond, The Casualties, Roberta Gambarini, Patton Oswalt, George Benson, Elvis Presley, Phil Stacey, Tim Buckley, Delores O'Rioran, Carmen Appice, The Mamas & the Papas, Al Jarreau, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Entertainment News, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, The Dukes, Paul Revere & the Raiders, 16 Horsepower, Collective Soul, Fun., Alan O'Day, Pilot, Now That's What I Call Music, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Roy Orbison, The Bloody Beetroots, Felix Da Housecat, Teddy Pendergrass, The Subdudes, James Carter, Adam Ant, Colbie Caillat, Arctic Monkeys, Jeff Golub, Jackie DeShannon, Island Records, Fame, Woodstock, Sounds of Blackness, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Smokie Norful, Irma Thomas, Mew, Tanya Stephens, Brian Bromberg, Willie Nelson, Jack Wagner, The New City Ramblers, Mott the Hoople, Love and Theft, New Releases, Deryl Dodd, Cross Country, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Kenny G, Jet, Niti Sawhney, Vander Graaf Generator, Sally Shapiro, John Denver, Jason Aldeean, Smokey Robinson, Taking Woodstock, Vandaveer, Najee, Selah, Needtobreathe, Latoya, Strawbs, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Advocate, Lgbt, Sony Legacy, Verve Records, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein, Grammy, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Jerry Wexler, Gramma Awards, Saturday Night Live, Wbai, Wnew, Miami Vice, Dar Williams, Birthers, Fox News, Cher, Teabaggers, Joan Baez, Glen Campbell, Mel Torme, Death Panel, Nina Simone, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Janis Ian is one of the Woodstock era's unsung musical heroes who, just two years prior to the Bethel Bash, shocked our nation with her controversial single "Society's Child."

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Tom DeLay and the Woodstock Nation

Michael Winship | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Politics, Jack Abramoff, Woodstock Now and Then, James Schamus, Woodstock, Tom Delay, Dancing With the Stars, Barbara Kopple, Woodstock Anniversary, Taking Woodstock, Entertainment News
Michael Winship

It's wistful to reflect on a Woodstock Nation that never really materialized, its moment of rhythm and harmony trumped by the heavy-footed dance stylings of men like Tom DeLay.

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DVDs: I Heart "Firefly"

Michael Giltz | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Shows, Dollhouse, Firefly, Joss Whedon, Movies, Dvds, Route 66, Paul Rudd, Bluray, The X-Files, Chris Isaak, Pushing Daisies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Maverick, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Kristen-Chenoweth, Wentworth-Miller, Ang Lee, Dr. Who, Andy Samberg, January Jones, Torchwood, I Love You Man, Alec Baldwin, Jason Segel, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Firefly is quirky, with the offbeat and clever dialogue we expect from Whedon. But it's also wholly satisfying and fun from episode one

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Oscar-Winning Director Ang Lee Enjoys Two Retrospectives

Brad Balfour | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Taiwan Born Director, Ang Lee, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Walter Reade Theater, James Schamus, Taking Woodstock, Western, Woodstock, 40th Anniversary, Lincoln Center Film Society, Focus Features, Ride With the Devil, New York News
Brad Balfour

With his feature film retrospective going on at the Lincoln Center Film Society's Walter Reade Theater and the August 28th release of Taking Woodstock, Taiwan born director Ang Lee is being put into an ever-bright spotlight.

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Monday Music Quarterback

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Guardian, Tori Amos, Conor Oberst, Tyrone Wells, Denison Witmer, Country Joe McDonald, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Comic-Con, Dan Fogler, , Henry Goodman, Sling Blade, Jonathan Groff, Rosa Agostino, Eric Rosse, Porno for Pyros, Matt Hires, John Mayer, Arcade Fire, Vienna Film Festival, Eugene Levy, One Tree Hill, Silver Mt. Zion, Martyn Lenoble, Screaming Trees, Sufjan Stevens, Gossip Girl, Queens of the Stone Age, Guy Picciotto, Elvis Costello, Mike Patton, Cowboy Junkies, Jem Cohen, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Battlestar Galactica, Modest Mouse, Rick Rubin, Dmetri Martin, Beth Ditto, Robert Moses, Brace Paine, P-Vine Records, Entertainment Weekly, Ry Cooder, Laurel Canyon, Marc Broussard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gossip, Supernatural, Vic Chestnutt, Townes Van Zandt, Emile Hirsch, Elephant Six, Robert Francis, Constellation Records, Farscape, Speed Racer, Michael Stipe, O.a.R., Danny Elfman, Jefferson Airplane, Arlo Guthrie, Elf Power, Myspace, Melanie, Richard Warren, Imelda Staunton, Steve Earle, Grateful Dead, The BQE, Stephen Halker, Jane's Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, World's Fair, Paolo Nutini, Rosie Thomas, Osso Quartet, Janis Joplin, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Hannah Billie, Woodstock, Bill Frisell, The Hives, Mark Lanegan, Chinese Zodiac, Love, Richard Hawley, Empires of Tin, Spunk Records, Danielson Famile, Crosby Stills & Nash, Elliot Tiber, My Brightest Diamond, Npr, Liev Schrieber, Canned Heat, Iron Man II, Rough Trade Records, Howard Bilerman, Jason Pierce, Dennis Herring, The Doors, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Red Ghost, Richie Havens, Itunes, The Band, R.E.M., Taking Woodstock, The Observer, Bruce Springsteen, Clash, Mutemath, Fugazi, Lambchop, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Viewmaster, 92ytribecca, Japan, Athens-Georgia, Detroit-Michigan, Louisiana, Tampa-Florida, Seattle-Washington, Montreal-Canada, Canada, New York-New York, Los Angeles-California, Salt Lake City-Utah, United Kingdom, Australia, New Orleans-Louisiana, Oxford-Mississippi, San Francisco-California, Chicago-Illinois, Portland-Oregon, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

As you're recovering from the joyful overkill that was this year's Comic-Con, take a few moments to catch-up on a handful of the more interesting new press releases.

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New Tunes On Monday: Woodstock, Woodstock Two, The Woodstock Experience, Woodstock the DVD, Woodstock the Website...

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Wikipedia, Adam Block, Santana, Johnny Winter, Max Yasgur, Cotillion Records, Macy's, Martin Scorsese, Yasgur's Farm, Janis Joplin, Ang Lee, Holly George-Warren, Sony Music, Rhino Records, Sly & the Family Stone, Woodstock, Legacy Recordings, Joni Mitchell, Robert Altman, American Idol, Michael Madleigh, Michael Shrieve, Hugh Hefner, Michael Lang, Jefferson Airplane, Edgar Winter, Pavlov, Bethel, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Well, it's that time again: Woodstock Fever has arrived (beads and headbands optional) to remind us there actually was music made before American Idol.

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Cannes 2009 Wrapup: Quick Movie Rundown and Sights & Sounds Of The Fest

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Ang Lee, Up, Film, Pixar, Cannes Film Festival, Sylvester Stallone, Cinema, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Since I can't sneak you into screenings of the films in competition, this is as close as you can get at the moment. Enjoy, thanks for reading and au revoir!

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Cannes Buzz: Which Film Will Win?

Karin Badt | Posted 06.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Marco Bellochio, Agora, Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach, Lars Von Trier, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Cannes, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

All charismatic, powerful men ruthlessly destroy other people's lives as they cheer on "Vincere!"

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CANNES: Ang Lee's 'Taking Woodstock' Premieres (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Film, Slideshow, Emile Hirsch, Cannes, Tilda Swinton, Cannes Film Festival, Taking Woodstock, Demetri Martin, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Entertainment News

(AP Article, Scroll for HuffPo Slideshow) CANNES, France - Ang Lee views his 1970s drama "The Ice Storm" as a representation of the disillusionment o...

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Crouching Tiger vs. Slobbering Slumdog: What Ang Lee Gets Right About Globalization

Chi Tung | Posted 03.25.2009 | World

Read More: Ang Lee, Lust Caution, Chinese Culture, Globalization, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Chinese Cinema, Slumdog Millionaire, China, The Academy Awards, The Oscars, World News
Chi Tung

Slumdog might be a shining example of how to package a transglobal blockbuster. But its fatal flaw is that it often treats globalization, the lingua franca of today's world, as unassailable gospel.

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Tang Wei Lands First Role Since Post-"Lust, Caution" Ban

AP | MIN LEE | Posted 03.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ang Lee, Tang Wei, Film, Crossing Hennessy, Entertainment News

HONG KONG — Ang Lee protege Tang Wei has landed her first role since starring in the sexually charged spy thriller "Lust, Caution" and her repor...

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"Brokeback" Furor As Italian TV Cuts Sex Scene

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Brokeback Mountain, Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Ang Lee, RAI TV, Film, Television, Gay Issues, Entertainment News

ROME — Italian state television cut a gay sex scene from Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," as well as a sequence showing the lead characters kissi...

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Ang Lee Defends Banned 'Lust, Caution' Actress

Reuters via Yahoo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lust, Ang Lee, Tang Wei, Caution, Entertainment News

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has come out in support of Chinese actress Tang Wei, whose advertisements have been blacklisted in China following her ...

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Ang Lee's Steamy "Lust, Caution" Victorious At Early Awards

AP | Min Lee | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lust, Ang Lee, Tang Wei, Tony Leung Chiu, Caution, Golden Horse Awards, Entertainment News

Taiwan showered native son Ang Lee with honors Saturday as his spy thriller "Lust, Caution" clinched seven prizes, including best film, director and a...

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"Lust, Caution" Spreads Virus, Doctors Warn Viewers About Mimicking Positions

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lust, Ang Lee, Tang Wei, Caution, Entertainment News

A Chinese anti-virus company has warned against free downloads of Ang Lee's steamy spy thriller, "Lust, Caution", saying several hundred sites offerin...

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Ang Lee On "Lust, Caution's" NC-17 Scenes: "After Half A Day's Shooting We Had To Stop"

Time | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lust, Ang Lee, Tang Wei, Caution, Nc-17, Entertainment News

TIME: You've said the three sex scenes in the film were harder to shoot than the martial arts scenes in Crouching Tiger. Why? Lee: I'm a shy human be...

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Real Or Simulated? The New Generation Of "Hard-Core Art" Sex Scenes

New York Times | MIREYA NAVARRO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, Lust, Ang Lee, Michelle Borth, Tell Me You Love Me, Caution, Entertainment News

A few years ago, Michelle Borth went topless for a movie, and she thought: "That's it. That's my last topless scene." Then she read the script for th...

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Ang Lee Defends Every Frame Of NC-17 Film

New York Magazine | Logan Hill | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tony Leung, Lust, Ang Lee, Tang Wei, MPAA, Caution, NC-17 Movies, Entertainment News

When the MPAA slapped Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (which opens next week) with an NC-17 rating for "explicit sexuality," the director and his writer-produ...

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How Male Nudity Has Gone Mainstream In Movies, Theater And On TV

New York Observer | Sarah Vilkomerson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lust, Ang Lee, Jane Alexander, Tang Wei, Caution, Daniel Radcliffe, Viggo Mortensen, Tell Me You Love Me, Emile Hirsch, Equus, Sean Penn, Entertainment News

In one of the many (many) startling scenes in the new HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me, which debuted Sunday night, a young, attractive married couple si...

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