Filmmaker Ang Lee has been honoured at the 18th Annual Provincetown International Film Festival.
Introducing Lee, 61, before conducting an onstage conversation with the Oscar-winning director, longtime Provincetown festival patron John Waters said, "Ang Lee may seem like he has sense and sensibility, but look at his career, it's really nuts when you think about it.
"He's made movies about suburban swingers, gay cowboys and lust-filled assassins. He made a brainy superhero movie, and a great film about Woodstock that I really loved that never even showed the music. He's the only director that makes me look forward to CGI effects. Plus he stated the cinematically incorrect opinion that we should stop trying to imitate film stock, but instead embrace digital and make it better than 3D. If that's not 'edge,' I don't know what is."
Waters steered Lee through a personal overview of his career, starting with the two filmmakers' shared admiration of the work of Ingmar Bergman, said the Hollywood Reoporter.
He then traced Lee's output from the Taiwanese family trilogy that put him on the map - "Pushing Hands", "The Wedding Banquet" and "Eat Drink Man Woman" - through his English-language debut with "Sense and Sensibility" to his upcoming November release, Billy Lynn's "Long Halftime Walk".
Lee spoke candidly about his flops such as "Ride With the Devil", "Hulk", "Taking Woodstock" and even the critically adored "The Ice Storm", which was a commercial under-achiever.
"They are all my kids," he said.
"I don't judge these movies by their success or by what critics say. They're all a part of my life.
