Ang Lee on 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' 20 years later
Read full article: Ang Lee on 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' 20 years laterThis photo released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Chow Yun Fat, left, and Michelle Yeoh in a scene from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." (Sony Pictures Classics via AP)NEW YORK โ Itโs physically impossible to get to the forest fight scene that hovers atop slender bamboo trees in โCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonโ and not say out loud โWhoa.โTwenty years later, the exhilarating grace of Ang Leeโs martial-arts masterwork is just as breathtaking. The way you dream about a movie, itโs very difficult to make real.โTuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the release of โCrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,โ an occasion being celebrated with a new limited-edition 4K UHD Blu-ray. Arguably more than any other film, โCrouching Tiger Hidden Dragonโ opened mainstream American moviegoers not just to a new genre known predominantly in Asia -- the wuxia tradition -- but to subtitled films in general. It set another record with 10 Academy Awards nominations, a mark since equaled by โRomaโ and โParasite.โ โCrouching Tigerโ took home four Oscars.