Considering the unpredictability of Ang Lee’s previous filmic ventures: middle-class melodrama, high-wire Kung-Fu drama, English period-drama, and less successfully, the ‘Giant-Green-Man Drama’ it’s perhaps not such a stretch for Lee to opt for ‘shepherding-homosexual-drama’ as the choice for his latest; a tale of forbidden love against the oppressive homophobia of Southern America, 1963. Wisely released in time for an Oscars shoe-in, Brokeback Mountain started its life as a short story by E. Annie Proulx published in The New Yorker magazine, [...]