Ang Lee
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Diverse nominees translate into fairly traditional winners, with Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut taking best British film and Hopkins becoming oldest ever male acting winner
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Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
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From JG Ballard to Eileen Chang, these books capture some of the extraordinary spirit of a truly international city between the wars
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Original director Gus Van Sant has revealed that multiple A-listers turned down the chance to star in the gay romance
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Featuring Coen brothers masterpieces and an astonishing run by Michael Haneke, this was the decade in which film rediscovered its history – and explored its future – thanks to digital technology
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They can be set anywhere from Australia to Pakistan – and increasingly it’s women who are shooting from the hip. With new westerns such as My Pure Land and Brimstone, the gunslinger genre continues to reinvent itselfin
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A first look at the new documentary which features never-before-seen home footage of the late actor as well as interviews with family, close friends and collaborators2:29
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3 out of 5 stars.Ang Lee’s novel attempt at capturing PTSD mars this version of Ben Fountain’s novel about a young soldier with divided loyalties
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2 out of 5 stars.Ang Lee turns in an uninteresting comment on the US misadventure in Iraq, with the story of a soldier whose PTSD is triggered at a Texan football game
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He has won two Oscars but his dad saw him as a failure. Ang Lee talks about his new war movie, the sex in Brokeback Mountain – and why his films possess him
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk blurs the line between what is real and what is fake, and allows the viewer no escape from implication
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The dismal box office for Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is the latest in a string of post-9/11 war flops – what can we learn about the lone exception?
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2 out of 5 stars.
First look review Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk review – Ang Lee war drama is a misfiring folly
2 out of 5 stars.A rare misstep for the Oscar-winning director is an adaptation of Ben Fountain’s acclaimed novel flattened by ill-fitting experimentation with new technology
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Complaints centre on host Chris Rock’s skit featuring three children from east Asian backgrounds introduced as ‘Academy accountants’, with response so far denounced as ‘patronising’
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Star Trek actor George Takei, one of 24 Academy members who wrote an open letter of complaint after the awards ceremony, has dismissed the ‘bland corporate response’
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