'Brokeback Mountain' still stuns 20 years later

I remember the first time I heard about "Brokeback Mountain," the love story between two cowboys. My mom told me that my grandfather enjoyed the movie. A simple sentence, one that other prepubescent children might have forgotten. But as a …

20 years on, Brokeback Mountain remains as poignant and important as ever

Open on: The lone countryside, early in the morning. It’s an unassuming still shot as a soft guitar melody starts to build. If it is your first time watching, you don’t know how quickly Gustavo Santaolalla’s simplistically moving score will be one of the …

The ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Scene We Can’t Stop Thinking About 20 Years Later

Jack Twist, I swear: the gay cowboys are back! Brokeback Mountain arrived on screen in 2005 with great anticipation and even greater reviews. Twenty years later, the film is hitting theaters again for a special anniversary re-release. It’s clearer now than …

Twenty years later, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain remains a gently painful drama of queer love that endures for a reason

click to enlarge Brokeback Mountain returns to theaters for its 20th anniversary starting June 20. It's impossible to watch Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain without thinking about, at least in part, death. There is the story itself about two men …

Brokeback Mountain’s Cast and Crew Remember How the Movie Came to Be

The following quotes are from Brokeback Mountain's cast and crew come from the original interviews during the making of the film's EPK. Ang Lee (director): To me, Brokeback Mountain is uniquely, and universally, a great American love story. Diana …

Paris is Burning to Brokeback Mountain: Top 10 greatest movies ever made on LGBTQ+ to watch in this pride month

Back to Brokeback

On the evening of March 5, 2006, it felt like the improbable was about to happen: My favorite movie of the year was going to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Brokeback Mountain had already won three awards—Original Score for Gustavo Santaolalla' …

‘Brokeback Mountain’ Started as a Punch Line. 20 Years Later, It’s an Undisputed Classic

“It was a laughing stock—the ‘gay cowboy’ script.” That’s how producer James Schamus remembers the reputation surrounding Brokeback Mountain as it first started making the Hollywood rounds in the late 1990s. An adaptation of Annie Proulx’s lauded short …

‘Grim’ Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying triumph is a bleak day for parliament

The portents this morning were grim. The Grim Leadreaper was doing her HR manager of Hades act, buzzing around with faux sincerity like a wasp that had discovered LGBT History Month. Jess Phillips took a great huff on her vape in the lobby before walking …

Film lets you put yourself in mariner's place as he drifts for 76 days

Steven Callahan survived 76 days lost at sea after his boat sank in 1982. Callahan's experience, documented in his book "Adrift," is now a documentary film. The film uses immersive perspective, with the actor recreating Callahan's …