Pre-Order The Incredible Hulk Score Soundtrack – Released On June 10, 2008 Comments Off

The Incredible Hulk ScoreAmazon.com is taking pre-orders for composer Craig Armstrong’s The Incredible Hulk Score.

The Incredible Hulk Score is going to be released on June 10th, three days before the movie is released in theaters.

The Incredible Hulk Score has included the full track listings for the 2 discs that are included.

The Incredible Hulk stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, aka, the Hulk, as well as Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, and William Hurt. The Incredible Hulk, due June 13, is said to have a formidable obstacle to overcome: Ang Lee’s Hulk (Widescreen 2-Disc Special Edition) in 2003.

Brokeback Mountain Film Director Ang Lee Meets Film Industry Leaders, Directors & Students Comments Off

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.

Buy Cheap DVDs: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) (DVD 2002) – In Stock On 26, December 2007 Comments Off

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)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!

Buy Cheap DVDs Online: Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition) (2007) Comments Off

Lust, Caution (Widescreen, NC-17- Rated Edition) (2007)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.

“Lust, Caution” Sweeps 7 Golden Horse Film Awards Comments Off

Taiwanese director Ang Lee‘s erotic spy thriller “Lust, Caution” swept the top honours at the Golden Horse Film Awards, seen as the Chinese-language Oscars.

“Lust, Caution,” took home seven awards, including the coveted best film, best director, and best actor accolades.

Lee was also recognised as the outstanding Taiwanese filmmaker of the year at the 44th edition of the awards in a glittering ceremony in the Taipei Arena.

“I am really moved by the audience’s overwhelming support (of the film) in Taiwan and in Asia. I feel like I am sharing a joint effort with them,” Lee said.

The film, called “Se, Jie” in Chinese, also bagged best make-up and costume design, best original film score, best screenplay adaptation for Lee’s long-time filmmaking partner James Schamus and best new performer for Chinese actress Tang Wei.

“Lust, Caution” in September picked up the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice Film Festival.

Lee, noted for blending elements from East and West to depict characters struggling to fit into society and live up to family pressure, won the best director Oscar for his groundbreaking gay cowboy drama “Brokeback Mountain” in 2006.

He last won a Golden Horse for directing in 1993 for family drama “The Wedding Banquet” about a gay man faking marriage to meet cultural demands.

Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu-wei garnered an unprecedented third best actor title for his performance as a powerful Japanese collaborator in “Lust, Caution,” which is set in World War II Shanghai.

He defeated fellow Hong Konger Aaron Kwok, who was also seeking a third best actor gong.

Leung, who was absent from the ceremony, won best actor in 2003 for the hit police thriller “Infernal Affairs” and in 1994 for the love story “Chungking Express.”

Chinese-American veteran Joan Chen beat top rival Tang Wei to take her second best actress crown for her performance in “The Home Song Stories.”

“I am overwhelmed by the award because there are fewer good roles to choose for a middle-aged (actress) and this award is much more important to me than the previous one” received in 1994, Chen said.

The film depicts the troubled love life of Chen’s character after moving to Australia from Shanghai with her two children. It is competing for a best foreign language film Oscar representing Australia next year.

Chinese starlet Fan Bingbing took best supporting actress for her role in the ghost movie “The Matrimony.”

Hong Kong’s Tong Leung Ka-fai won best supporting actor in “The Drummer,” a story about a renegade gangster inspired by Chinese Zen drumming while in hiding.

Meanwhile, Taiwanese pop prince Jay Chou’s directorial debut “Secret,” depicting a mysterious romance, won best original song and best visual effects awards and was named as outstanding Taiwanese film of the year.

Some 36 films were nominated at this year’s Golden Horse Film Awards, which are styled on the US Academy Awards but decided by a jury, as at the Cannes film festival.