Showing posts with label The Ice Storm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Ice Storm. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

A-Z #97: The Ice Storm

You can pick up hundreds of DVDs for a round-pound each - it doesn't matter. It's never about quantity, it's about quality. A-Z is my way of going through my collection, from A-Z, and understanding why I own the films ... or you can tell me why I should sell 'em


#97 - The Ice Storm

Why did I buy it?

For The Film Locker with Ryan. I had never seent he film and I had heard through the grapevine that this was one of Ang Lee's best and I couldn't ignore it, could I?
 
Why do I still own it?

After only one watch, I knew it was one to go back to. The depth of interest about family and the range of challenges people have which, on the one hand, are explored - but each character is unaware about the other, creates this brilliant balancing act that clearly shows the complexity of family life. I'm from a family of six children - making a total of eight people in the family household. This film highlighted how I shouldn't take advantage of these incredibly close and important relationships.

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Saturday, 13 August 2011

The Film Locker #10: Ang Lee and 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

Due to my recent holiday from blogging and, indeed, from London I am a little behind on some posts so this may serve as a little reminder for our latest episode on Ang Lee.

"Ang Lee broke onto the filmmaking scene with PUSHING HANDS and managed to get even further by then making outstanding films such as CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, THE ICE STORM, HULK, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and, most recently, LUST, CAUTION. Hatter and I chose CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON as our film of choice and then we dig deeper into his back catalogue - and even choose our films from the 'top shelf'."

There is only so much coverage on the blog we managed to scrape together for this director but Hatter did manage to find a review he wrote on Lust, Caution, one of Ang Lee's more recent films which we don't discuss too much on the podcast. Feel free to check out his review by clicking here.



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