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Happy 65th, James Schamus.
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飲食男女, 1994
#comedy#drama#romance#飲食男女#eat drink man woman#ang lee#james schamus#hui-ling wang#sihung lung#chien-lien wu#jui wang#lacking
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The King's Daughter (2022)
My rating: 6/10
With a premise this silly and a plot this ridiculous, it depends entirely on the execution whether it's a bit of entertaining nonsense or just utter garbage, and I think they managed to land on the right side of the line - I had a pretty good time with this, even if it isn't objectively very good.
#The King's Daughter#Sean McNamara#Barry Berman#James Schamus#Vonda N. McIntyre#Pierce Brosnan#Kaya Scodelario#William Hurt#Youtube
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon commentary highlights Ang Lee (Director) and James Schamus (Producer and Writer)
Michelle Yeoh describes this movie as "Sense and Sensibility with martial arts" and it's so hilariously true, to the movie's credit
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Dear President Biden,
We come together as artists and advocates, but most importantly as human beings witnessing the devastating loss of lives and unfolding horrors in Israel and Palestine.
We ask that, as President of the United States, you call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost. More than 5,000 people have been killed in the last week and a half – a number any person of conscience knows is catastrophic. We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.
We urge your administration, and all world leaders, to honor all of the lives in the Holy Land and call for and facilitate a ceasefire without delay – an end to the bombing of Gaza, and the safe release of hostages. Half of Gaza’s two million residents are children, and more than two thirds are refugees and their descendants being forced to flee their homes. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to reach them.
We believe that the United States can play a vital diplomatic role in ending the suffering and we are adding our voices to those from the US Congress, UNICEF, Doctors without Borders, The International Committee of The Red Cross, and so many others. Saving lives is a moral imperative. To echo UNICEF, “Compassion — and international law — must prevail.”
As of this writing more than 6,000 bombs have been dropped on Gaza in the last 12 days — resulting in one child being killed every 15 minutes.
“Children and families in Gaza have practically run out of food, water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals, following days of air strikes and cuts to all supply routes. Gaza’s sole power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday afternoon, shutting down electricity, water and wastewater treatment. Most residents can no longer get drinking water from service providers or household water through pipelines…. The humanitarian situation has reached lethal lows, and yet all reports point to further attacks. Compassion — and international law — must prevail.” – UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder
Beyond our pain and mourning for all of the people there and their loved ones around the world we are motivated by an unbending will to stand for our common humanity. We stand for freedom, justice, dignity and peace for all people – and a deep desire to stop more bloodshed.
We refuse to tell future generations the story of our silence, that we stood by and did nothing. As Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths told UN News, “History is watching.”
Alia Shawkat
Alyssa Milano
Amanda Seales
Amber Tamblyn
America Ferrera
Andrew Garfield
Anoushka Shankar
Aria Mia Loberti
Ayo Edebiri
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Bassem Youssef
Cate Blanchett
Channing Tatum
Cherien Dabis
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David Cross
Dominique Fishback
Dominique Thorne
Elvira Lind
Farah Bsaiso
Fatima Farheen Mirza
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Indya Moore
James Schamus
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Macklemore
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Michelle Wolf
Mo Amer
Oscar Isaac
Quinta Brunson
Ramy Youssef
Riz Ahmed
Rooney Mara
Rosario Dawson
Ryan Coogler
Sandra Oh
Sebastian Silva
Shailene Woodley
Shaka King
Susan Sarandon
Vic Mensa
Wallace Shawn
Wanda Sykes
👉🏿 https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/hollywood-demands-gaza-israel-ceasefire-joaquin-phoenix-cate-blanchett-1235763646/
#politics#palestine#gaza#israel#ceasefire#war crimes#hamas ≠ palestine#genocide#collective punishment#israel is an apartheid state#never again#humanitarian aid#benjamin netanyahu is a war criminal#bds#boycott divest sanction#never again to anyone
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Brokeback Mountain 2005. American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus.
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List of celebrities that have signed letters in “solidarity” with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians
and the list of celebrities that have signed a letter supporting a ceasefire in Gaza:
Adam McKay
Alfonso Cuarón
Alia Shawkat
Alyssa Milano
Amanda Gorman
Amanda Seales
Amber Tamblyn
America Ferrera
Andrew Garfield
Ani DiFranco
Aminé
Anoushka Shankar
Aria Mia Loberti
ASAP Nast
Ayo Edebiri
Bassam Tariq
Bassem Youssef
Belly
Bonnie Wright
Boots Riley
Caroline Polachek
Cate Blanchett
Channing Tatum
Charm La’Donna
Cherien Dabis
Darius Marder
David Cross
David Oyelowo
Deb Never
Dev Hynes
Dina Shihabi
Diplo
Dominic Cooper
Dominique Fishback
Dominique Thorne
Dua Lipa
El-P
Elvira Lind
Elyanna
Farah Bsaiso
Farida Khelfa
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Florence Pugh
Hasan Minhaj
Hend Sabry
Ilana Glazer
Indya Moore
James Schamus
Jay Shetty
Jai Courtney
Jeremy Strong
Jessica Chastain
Jessie Buckley
Jessie Williams
Joaquin Phoenix
John Cusack
Jon Stewart
Kathryn Grody
Kaytranada
Kehlani
Killer Mike
Kristen Stewart
Lauren Jauregui
Lena Waithe
Macklemore
Mandy Patinkin
Mahershala Ali
Margaret Cho
Mark Ruffalo
May Calamawy
Megan Boone
Michael Malarkey
Michael Moore
Michael Shannon
Michael Stipe
Michelle Wolf
Miguel
Mo Amer
Mousa Kraish
Natalia Cordova
Natalie Merchant
Oscar Isaac
Quinta Brunson
Rachel McAdams
Rachel Sennott
Ramy Youssef
Raveena Aurora
Riz Ahmed
Rooney Mara
Rosario Dawson
Rosie O’Donnell
Rowan Blanchard
Ryan Coogler
Sandra Oh
Sebastian Silva
Shailene Woodley
Shaka King
SimiHaze
Simon Helberg
Stephanie Suganami
Susan Sarandon
Taylour Paige
Tommy Genesis
Tony Kushner
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Vic Mensa
Victoria Monét
Wallace Shawn
Wanda Sykes
Yara Shahidi
Zoe Lister Jones
I wanted to include them both but there were hundreds of celebrities who came out in support of Israel.
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while there are many celebrities who stand with colonizers and are quite literally supporting a genocide, here’s a list of celebrities who have come together and wrote a letter in support of palestine calling for an immediate ceasefire and allowance of aid into gaza (yes, israel is currently blocking all aid from getting into gaza)
the following celebrities have used their platform and privilege for the better:
Alia Shawkat
Alyssa Milano
Amanda Seales
Amber Tamblyn
America Ferrera
Andrew Garfield
Anoushka Shankar
Aria Mia Loberti
Ayo Edebiri
Bassam Tariq
Bassem Youssef
Cate Blanchett
Channing Tatum
Cherien Dabis
Darius Marder
David Cross
Dominique Fishback
Dominique Thorne
Elvira Lind
Farah Bsaiso
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Hasan Minhaj
Hend Sabry
Ilana Glazer
Indya Moore
James Schamus
Jeremy Strong
Jessica Chastain
Joaquin Phoenix
Jon Stewart
Kristen Stewart
Macklemore
Mahershala Ali
Margaret Cho
Mark Ruffalo
May Calamawy
Michael Malarkey
Michael Stipe
Michelle Wolf
Mo Amer
Oscar Isaac
Quinta Brunson
Ramy Youssef
Riz Ahmed
Rooney Mara
Rosario Dawson
Ryan Coogler
Sandra Oh
Sebastian Silva
Shailene Woodley
Shaka King
Susan Sarandon
Vic Mensa
Wallace Shawn
Wanda Sykes
#so proud of all of them#thank you for your support#can’t believe it’s come to this#like we are actually thanking people to speak up against genocide#because so many people are FOR genocide!!!!#unbelievable#palestine#pro palestine#anti israel#anti Zionism
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celebs who signed an open letter to biden calling for a ceasefire
Riz Ahmed
Mahershala Ali
Mo Amer
Cate Blanchett
Quinta Brunson
Farah Bsaiso
Jessica Chastain
Margaret Cho
David Cross
Cherien Dabis
Rosario Dawson
Ayo Edebiri
Fatima Farheen Mirza
America Ferrera
Dominique Fishback
Andrew Garfield
Ilana Glazer
Oscar Isaac
Shaka King
Elvira Lind
Aria Mia Loberti
Macklemore
Michael Malarkey
Rooney Mara
Darius Marder
Vic Mensa
Alyssa Milano
Hasan Minhaj
Indya Moore
Sandra Oh
Joaquin Phoenix
Mark Ruffalo
Hend Sabry
Susan Sarandon
James Schamus
Amanda Seales
Anoushka Shankar
Alia Shawkat
Wallace Shawn
Sebastian Silva
Jon Stewart
Kristen Stewart
Jeremy Strong
Wanda Sykes
Michael Stipe
Amber Tamblyn
Bassam Tariq
Channing Tatum
Dominique Thorne
Michelle Wolf
Shailene Woodley
Ramy Youssef
+ more have signed, full list here
#copied this from a tweet mainly just wanted to have the list saved for myself#just to know who doesn’t completely suck#save
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Watched it as a kid, thought the ending was dumb and pretentious. Now, through a writer’s eye, I see the themes and subtlety, but the ending is still confusing and not cathartic. Everything else makes it a MUST WATCH!
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia martial arts adventure film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung. The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. It is based on the Chinese novel of the same name serialized between 1941 and 1942 by Wang Dulu, the fourth part of his Crane Iron pentalogy.
#crouching tiger hidden dragon#crouching tiger hidden dragon review#wuxia#martial arts#adventure#ang lee#chow yun fat#michelle yeoh#zhang ziyi#chang chen#wang dulu#crane iron#green destiny sword#movie review#2000#must watch
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飲食男女, 1994
#comedy#drama#romance#飲食男女#eat drink man woman#yin shi nan nu#ang lee#james schamus#hui-ling wang#chien-lien wu#winston chao#strained
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25 of 250: Favorite Films - Hulk
Not long ago, work colleagues and I got into a discussion about what our favorite films were. Given my categorical nature I could not resist writing down a list and, as a writing challenge, have decided to write 250 word reviews of my favorite 25 films of all-time. Note: these are my favorite films, not what I think are the best films of all time.
Directed by: Ang Lee
Written by: James Schamus, Michael France, John Turman
Starring: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, Nick Nolte
Year/Country: 2003/United States
Halfway through Hulk, a pre-MCU entry into the superhero canon, Bruce Banner’s love interest, Betty Ross, says, “The thing that worries me is a physical wound is finite, but with emotions, what's to say it won't just go on and on and start a chain reaction?” Bruce, having transformed back from the titular character into his human form, replies, “You know what scares me the most? When it happens, when it comes over me and I totally lose control, I like it.” Your standard MCU quip-fest this is not. Thank God. Derided by critics for such dialogue, those barbs miss the ambition in this film.
Hulk tells the origin story of Bruce Banner’s Hulk. After he’s zapped by gamma radiation Bruce transforms into the Hulk whenever he becomes stressed or angry. Whereas audiences wanted (and yearned) for a smash’em up, director Ang Lee saw an opportunity to explore ideas about hubris and parental sins manifesting in children. In this origin myth, Bruce’s father, David Banner (Nolte) experimented on himself to boost his immune response, then passed it down to his son, who bears the burden. This comes to a head during the film’s climax where Bruce and David confront each other. Lee stages them as if they’re in a play, allowing a delightfully manic Nolte to shine. This is where the film fully sold me. It’s not a superhero movie - it’s a monster movie, dealing with substantive issues in a mature way. Too mature for most; perfect for my taste.
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Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-Lien Wu, and Kuei-Mei Yang in Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994)
Cast: Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-Lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Sylvia Chang, Winston Chao, Chao-jung Chen, Chit-Man Chan, Yu Chen, Ah-Lei Gua. Screenplay: Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang. Cinematography: Jong Lin. Production design: Fu-Hsiung Lee. Film editing: Tim Squyres. Music: Mader.
Ang Lee's Oscars for directing Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012) suggest something of his versatility. But then, Lee's filmography is all over the map: Since he returned to the United States after starting his directing career in Taiwan, he has made a Jane Austen adaptation, Sense and Sensibility (1995); a story of family dysfunction in Connecticut, The Ice Storm (1997); a Civil War-era Western, Ride With the Devil (1999); a martial arts epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); a comic-book movie, Hulk (2003); an erotic thriller, Lust, Caution (2007); a story set at the fabled 1969 rock festival, Taking Woodstock (2009); and an experiment using radically new film technology, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). If it's possible to discern in that almost random collection of films the kind of personal vision that auteur theorists believe is essential to the greatness of a director, I don't see it. He began with a personal vision, however, in the films he made in Taiwan after receiving his MFA in film at NYU: a focus on the conflict between the traditional and the new in Asian culture. Eat Drink Man Woman is the third of these, after Pushing Hands (1992) and The Wedding Banquet (1993), in what has been called Lee's "Father Knows Best" trilogy. Sihung Lung, who played similar roles in the other two films, is Chu, master chef at a large hotel restaurant, a widower with three unmarried daughters. The oldest, Jia-Jien (Kuei-Mei Yang), is a schoolteacher who converted to Christianity after a failed love affair; the middle daughter, Jia-Chien (Chien-Lien Wu), is a workaholic airline executive in line for a promotion that will get her transferred to Amsterdam; the youngest, Jia-Ning (Yu-Wen Wang), is still in school and works part-time at a Wendy's, where she commiserates with a co-worker whose boyfriend is inattentive -- largely because he's fallen for Jia-Ning. They all gather regularly for a Sunday dinner prepared by their father in a bravura opening sequence that details the skill and technique with which the chef creates his classic dishes. But the dinner is something of an ordeal for the daughters, each of whom is preoccupied with her own love life, as well as being concerned about the health and future of their aging parent. It's a well-plotted film, written by Lee with Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus, whom Lee met at film school and who became his frequent producer and co-writer. Tim Squyres is the film editor whose work shines in the opening food-preparation sequence and in the intercutting of the daughters' several stories, and the cinematography by Jong Lin gives us an effective traveling shot through the crowded kitchens of the hotel restaurant. But the movie stays on a superficial level when it comes to examining the lives of the Chu family, especially when you compare it to another family drama by a Taiwanese director, Edward Yang's Yi Yi (2000), whose characters have a depth lacking in Lee's film. With his versatility and technical prowess, Lee reminds me most of a classical Hollywood director like William Wyler, who gave us brightly polished entertainments as varied in tone and genre as Roman Holiday (1953), Ben-Hur (1959), and Funny Girl (1968), but without showing us anything of himself as an artist.
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Professor James Schamus accuses Columbia University of persecuting all s...
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