So you are still cracking your head if you want to buy a collection of cheap DVDs or an Audemars Piguet offshore watch as Father’s Day gift this year?

If he is a fan of Harrison Ford, perhaps you can give him a collection of The Adventures of Indiana Jones. Or you may get him international director Ang Lee’s movies.

Academy Award winning director Ang Lee , whose films include Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Lust, Caution, will meet with film industry members and students in Vancouver next Saturday afternoon to offer his perspective on the future of the film industry.

The plan for the session with Ang Lee is to make it interactive, with more than 100 industry leaders, young directors and film students getting the opportunity to ask questions of the director in an informal setting.

How wonderful it is that the very brief talent Heath Ledger shared with the world will live on long after we all move off this mortal coil.

You only need to watch this Brokeback Mountain (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) (2005) to see what talent he had.

His performance as the brooding and distant Ennis Del Marr in this movie is nothing short of brilliant. He should have won the Academy Award instead of Phillip Seymor Hoffman but that’s history now. We can only now think of what might have been in the years ahead.

For people who have not seen the Brokeback Mountain (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) (2005) , I would like to point out as I’m sure many other reviewers before me have said,it is not a “gay” cowboy movie.

The two men in this movie fall in love with each other in the purest form that the word can ever mean. We all wish for a love so deep and meaningfull and some of us are lucky enough to find it once or twice in our lives.

If you take anything from this cheap DVD: Brokeback Mountain it is a new definition of the meaning of love and life and how short our time on Earth is.

Essential viewing!

If you’re willing to read subtitles, Cheap DVD: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) is an excellent foreign film. This movie is set in Taiwan, about the importance of and the tight connection between a person’s individual identity and his/her family life in Chinese society and culture.

The work lives, interpersonal lives, and spiritual lives of four main characters are explored and interwoven, with the Sunday dinner table being the terminus at which they all meet and from which we switch characters and depart on the continuing exploration of each person’s life.

Each of the main character’s lives would be interesting enough for its own full-length movie; so together they keep you thinking and interested from opening to closing credits.

In this masterful cultural portrait of the balanced interplay between life and death, work and love, family and self, food and deprivation, Ang Lee allows us to see and experience the intimate details of a major world culture, which is vastly different from our own in the western world.

The popular theme of traditional Chinese culture being impacted by modern life is addressed in a more realistic, less overdone, manner than in many movies, and the multi-generational presentation of interwoven lives makes it more easily understandable and complete.

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) will leave you with a warm smile of satisfaction and deeper understanding of what it is to be a person on this planet.

Warning: Do not watch Cheap DVD: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) if you are hungry! If you do, within the first 10 minutes, you will pause it, and have to run out for Chinese food instantly and not the quick take out junk either, but the honest to god traditional Chinese cuisine that the father makes.

Ang Lee gives us insight into this family from the perspective of how love and life and humanity can be compared to eating and drinking. The soundtrack is amazing, the scenery is magnificent and the realness of it all transport you in, so that you can almost smell the food cooking. I would have killed to be on that set to just sample all those dishes!

Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition) (2007). I saw this movie twice in the theater – very unusual for someone as critical of movies as I am.

The first time I went by myself, and the second time I took my husband, who was not initially interested in the story line (espionage and all). He was profoundly moved by it as well.

I’m not exaggerating – I was like in a zone for a few days after I saw the movie. It really shook me to the core in a sense.

A very powerful movie in and of itself, it moves me particularly because I am originally from China and Eileen Chang was one of my favorite writers when I was a teenager book worm.

Having grown up surrounded by the communist propaganda, I found it refreshing to watch a movie so artfully done to create a theme about love, sexuality and loyalty. It shows how innocent and ignorant the young revolutionaries could be (something that was obviously omitted in our history lessons).

This Lust, Caution is a movie about powerful human emotions, like all the other movies directed by Ang Lee. I’m also happy to see Ang Lee sticking to making movies based on good, solid stories, instead of falling into the ‘glitz overriding story’ trap like so many other talented Chinese directors, Zhang Yimou and Cheng Kaige specifically.

My husband and I went on an Ang Lee mini marathon after watching this movie, and saw The Ice Storm, and Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. We really think Ang Lee is a genius film-maker.

Ang Lee breaks through again with a masterful adaptation of Eileen Chang’s short story, Lust/Caution (like what he did with Annie Prolux’s similarly brief story, Brokeback Mountain). While the hype seems to be mostly misplaced on the controversial acrobatics displayed by Tony Leung and Tang Wei in bed, Lee’s storytelling leaves one breathless.

Buy Cheap DVDs: Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition) (2007). The love story unfolds against the backdrop of 1930′s Japanese-invaded Shanghai where tyranny and suffering were synonymous.

Nubile Wang Jia Zhi played by Tang Wei joins the resistance movement and gets herself drawn into the role of a spy to crumble the traitor, Mr Yee. In between the espionage and wild climatic trysts, both of them unknowingly embroil themselves in love and deceit, much deeper than they would have liked themselves to.

Tang Wei, as a newcomer to cinema, is impeccable. Her evolution from a wide-eyed country girl to a seductive temptress is enough to make the hardest of most men, in this case, the distrusting Mr. Yee fall for her.

Wei acts pretty much on instincts and her body language does wonders at seducing the somewhat vulnerable Mr. Yee played by multiple-award winner Tony Leung. Wei breaks down in the memorable scene where she’s talking to the resistance leader on her unyieldingly sacrificial role that is both a torment and insidious attack to her emotions.

As usual, Tony has the penchant for playing dark brooding men and in this instance, an evil Chinese traitor. He does not act. His presence already commands attention as the cynical no-nonsense minister.

The pivotal sex scenes, split into three parts, are not just there for visual enhancement. They actually convey the shift in roles between the two throughout their complex relationship. The raw emotions displayed on their faces were enough to convince anyone hard-hearted to think twice about the essence of love. I must say these are some of the best bed scenes you’ll ever witness on film.

Of course, the supporting cast of Joan Chen as Mrs Yee and Wong Lee-Hom as Tang Wei’s resistance compatriot, Kuang Yu Min, is every bit just as spectacular.

In the end, the story about love is bittersweet. You’ll also see how fervent the resistance movement, which puts the enemy above self and others, was through Wang Jia Zhi’s eyes.

Cheap DVD Lust Caution is 157 minutes’ of rewarding watch that will linger on in your minds well after the credits roll.