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| Jul 09, 2009hecklerspray, Los Angeles
What Crouching Tiger does so well is in the approach to telling the story.....full of wondrous locations, acting and some of the best martial-arts choreography of the decade -.... ... Full Review
| Oct 23, 2006associatedcontent.com
Coreographed by the great Yen Wo Ping (The Matrix, Fist of Legend), Crouching Tiger#39;s fights incorporate intricate wirework that adds an element of flight to the already fluid movements.....Directed by Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain), the Chinese film not only stands on its own as one of the best films of....The Beauty of Ang Lee#39;s MasterpieceCrouching Tiger:....Lee employs a number of subtle techniques to capture beauty in even its most minute forms.For a martial arts film, Crouch ... Full Review
| May 24, 2006The Movie Insider
Schamus said, "I'm delighted that Ang is back with all of us here at Focus, and he's going to be making a very exciting film that's unlike anything he's done before.
Lust, Caution is being adapted from a short story by the late Chinese author Eileen Chang.
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| May 24, 2006timeout.com
Speaking of the project, executive producer James Schamus said 'Ang is going to be making a very exciting film that's unlike anything he's done before.
Based on Eileen Chang's short story of the same name, the action takes place in Shanghai in the early 1940s and will be adapted by 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' screenwriter Wang Hui-Ling.
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| Apr 29, 2005Bigpicturebigsound.com, NY
In "Crouching Tiger", happily back using his native language, he is the epitome of honor and strength.
Mr. Lee has always populated his films with strong female characters and "Crouching Tiger" is no different.
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| Aug 13, 2001FilmJerk.com
anyway, it was a great lesbian film.....She loves her, and somewhere, somehow.......CTHD was the greatest lesbian film since.......The erection-prone masses should see this film as well..... ... Full Review
| May 03, 2001Los Angeles Weekly
The film is amazingly compressed and economical, a miniature masterwork, but it's also curiously taxing -- you feel you can't relax for a second.
At 40 minutes, Hu's 1970 film Anger is a just about perfect length, the kung fu equivalent of a perfectly calibrated piece of chamber music, in which half a dozen characters are continuously in motion in a confined setting, in every possible martial combination, over the course of a single night.
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| Mar 09, 2001NewsOK.com
What's great about the film's fantastic martial arts technique is that the movie offers no explanation for how its practitioners defy gravity.
Simply put, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is exquisite.
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| Feb 18, 2001Moviecrypt
Top marks, Ang Lee.......American audiences too often expect (or have no choice but) to be spoon-fed a plot in the order it occurs.... ... Full Review
| Jan 16, 2001Laramie Movie Scope
It is a wondrous film with a lyrical, haunting beauty approaching that of a Kurosawa film.
This movie avoids those problems.
Zhang Ziyi is very beautiful, but is not very convincing as a martial arts powerhouse.
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