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Ang Lee Confirms His Next Film is 'Life of Pi'
30 October 2009 12:30 PM, PDT
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Ang Lee hasn't had much mainstream success since he won an Oscar for directing "Brokeback Mountain" a few years back. His follow-up was the hard-to-distribute Nc-17-rated Chinese period romance "Lust, Caution." Then, this past summer he released the much broader "Taking Woodstock," a comic look at a singular true story behind the scenes of the legendary music festival, and it failed to find an audience (I recommend seeing it when it hits DVD on December 15, specifically for Imelda Staunton, who deserves an Oscar already).
Fortunately, Lee's next film will be based on a best-selling novel and could therefore bring him back to the spotlight for the moviegoing masses. He confirmed to Digital Spy that he thinks he's going to do "Life of Pi," which he's adapting from Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winner. Of course, if you're familiar with the source material, you may wonder how on earth it's going to work as a film.
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Listen: Will Oscar remember Alexandre Desplat's score for 'Coco Avant Chanel'?
26 August 2009 2:29 PM, PDT
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Had an opportunity to see Anne Fontaine's "Coco Avant Chanel" last night and while I can't review it at this time I will heap some praise on the gorgeous score by Alexandre Desplat you can already find online.Desplat is a two-time Oscar nominee for his work in "The Queen" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," but his music has usually been hit or miss in my opinion with his score for "Lust, Caution" being his most memorable score to date -- before "Chanel" that is. To say his music makes the movie wouldn't be fair to the strong performance from
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Cannes Film Festival Names Competing Films
23 April 2009 2:39 AM, PDT
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Quentin Tarantino will have the distinction of being the only American-born
filmmaker to be competing in the 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival this year.
Tarantino, who won the festival's prestigious Palme d'Or in 1994, will be
debuting his Inglourious Basterds, frequently described as a World
War II revenge caper. (Although the film is set in France, it was filmed
mostly in Germany to take advantage of that country's tax incentives.)
Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk,
Brokeback Mountain, Lust, Caution), who became a U.S. citizen in 1983,
will return to the festival with Taking Woodstock, which describes
the origins of the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. Other highlights of the
competition include the premiere of Spanish director Pedro
Almodovar's Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces), New
Zealand director Jane Campion's Bright Star, British film director
Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, and Danish director Lars Von Trier's
Antichrist. The Cannes Film Festival is set to open on May 13 with
the out-of-competition screening of Disney/Pixar's Up and to close on
May 24 with the also-out-of-competition screening of Dutch filmmaker Jan
Kounen's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.
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