In the stellar career of Ang Lee, one movie stands out like a sore thumb, not only as one of his few boxoffice clunkers, but as a film which he edited for a studio. “Of the 11 films I worked on with ...
Ang Lee, US, 1999, 35mm, 138 min. Ang Lee reteamed with Tobey Maguire two years after The Ice Storm for this revisionist Civil War-western based on the novel “Woe to Live On” by Daniel Woodrell. The ...
*Another actor was hired to dub Jeffrey Wright’s voice in director Ang Lee’s 1999 film “Ride with the Devil” after he refused to censor the N-word in a scene. In the film, Wright plays a former slave ...
Jeffrey Wright said he was asked not to use the N-word while recording the clean version of "Ride with the Devil." He told EW that he refused to let people "be comfy in the darkness of their own ...
Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...
In American Fiction, Jeffrey Wright finally has a leading role worthy of his prodigious talents, but in an interview with EW's Around the Table (above), the actor recounts some of the frustrations ...
What stands out about the film is not its cast (as impressive as it is), but the unorthodox view of the Civil War. Early on you learn that the film's protagonists are on the side of the reviled ...