HONG KONG -- Roland Soong's only memory of Eileen Chang, one of modern China's most celebrated novelists, was when she stayed at his family home in Hong Kong in the early 1960s. ''I was 12,'' Mr. Soong said. ''Eileen Chang took over my room, which was located off the kitchen, and I had to sleep on the sofa in the living room, which was filled with...

Don't be misled by the title of Ang Lee's ''Taking Woodstock.'' This likable, humane movie is not an attempt to recreate the epochal Woodstock Music and Art Fair captured in Michael Wadleigh's documentary ''Woodstock.'' It is essentially a small, intimate film into which is fitted a peripheral view of the landmark event that took place on Aug. 15...

JAGAT PANDEY and his wife, Asha, owners of the Valley Rest Motel here, stood forlornly next to their garage. Although most of their property was well maintained -- neatly trimmed grass, freshly painted brick-red doors, newly gleaming paneling in the front office -- one wall looked atrocious. Paint peeled on the clapboard. The window was caked with...
Ang Lee (født 23. oktober 1954) er en taiwanesisk filminstruktør, der nu arbejder i USA.