Showing posts with label Yann Martel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yann Martel. Show all posts

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Can "Life of Pi" put Ang Lee back in the Best Picture Race?

Suraj Sharma
Update: I have written a review for the movie here.

Recently at the New York Film Festival, we saw the opening of director Ang Lee's Life of Pi. Critics like Jack Giroux have called it near perfect while Katey Rich was taken away by the visuals and believes that it will dominate the visual effects categories. Still, can this $100 production of Yann Martel's bestseller book bring Lee back to the forefront of the Oscar season, or is the idea of a man on a raft with a tiger not able to compete with Argo, The Master, and other high concept, zeitgeist-stemming movies?