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	The New York Review of Books: An Affair to Remember
		Brokeback Mountain—the highly praised new movie as well as the short story by Annie Proulx on which the picture is faithfully based—is a tale about two homosexual men.
		The real achievement of Brokeback Mountain is not that it tells a universal love story that happens to have gay characters in it, but that it tells a distinctively gay story that happens to be so well told that any feeling person can be moved by it.
		Both narratively and visually, Brokeback Mountain is a tragedy about the specifically gay phenomenon of the "closet"—about the disastrous emotional and moral consequences of erotic self-repression and of the social intolerance that first causes and then exacerbates it.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/18712 (2024 words)

	The Ultimate Brokeback Mountain Guide -- at DaveCullen.com
		Brokeback Mountain from short story, to screenplay, to the big screen
		The launch of my love affair with Brokeback Mountain, and my one big quarrel with the short story
		A Harrowing Affair: Commentary From a Brokeback Mountain Fan
	www.davecullen.com /brokebackmountain (429 words)

	Will Jake and Heath shatter Hollywood's taboo against gay sex? - Salon
		The casting call is out for "Brokeback Mountain," the Ang Lee-directed adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story, replete with sunsets, horses, howling windstorms and a heartbreaking love story between two young cowboys.
		Director Ang Lee is set to cast Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain," a story of two cowboys in love.
		That not an eyebrow would be raised at the casting of two tadpole heartthrobs to play young men who get it on in a pup tent, share a passionate kiss on a windblown night and get gruffly teary-eyed as they talk about their unutterable feelings for each other is almost too Pollyanna-ish to be believed.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/feature/2004/01/14/brokeback/index_np.html (845 words)

	Brokeback Mountain movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal could be starring in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain as the two gay cowboys whose story is charted across 20 years.
		The story, based on a short story by E. Annie Proulx, is set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas and centres on two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1961 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection.
		More casting additions to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain with Anne Hathaway being signed up as the strong willed ex-rodeo queen wife of Jake Gyllenhall's character and Randy Quaid has been signed up as a hard bittne foreman who hires Gyllenhaal Heath Ledger.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/b/brokebackmountain.shtm (517 words)

	"Brokeback Mountain" - Salon
		The premise of Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," based on an Annie Proulx short story, is something we've never seen before in a mainstream picture: In 1963 two young cowboys meet on the job and, amid a great deal of confusion and denial, as well as many fervent declarations of their immutable heterosexuality, fall in love.
		"Brokeback Mountain" takes great pains to be a compassionate love story; but the filmmaking itself, self-consciously restrained and desiccated, is inert and inexpressive.
		But by the time the 134 minutes of "Brokeback Mountain" have ticked by, the stark, craggy poetry of its beginning feels like a faraway, rearview-mirror memory -- an echo of the way Jack, after first meeting Ennis, surreptitiously scrutinizes him in a car's side mirror.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2005/12/09/brokeback/index.html (571 words)

	Brokeback Mountain
		BROKEBACK tells the story of two cowboys who fall in love in the lonely mountains of Wyoming during the 1960’s.
		In that context BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is an anomaly for it has stimulated more thought and opinion than any film in recent memory.
		His close-lipped, emotionally-stunted performance is the heart of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, and he pulls it off masterfully.
	www.chlotrudis.org /movies/reviews/2005/brokeback.html (1594 words)

	village voice > film > Brokeback Mountain by J. Hoberman
		As all media savants know, Brokeback Mountain has transformed Annie Proulx's 1997 New Yorker short story into a sagebrush Tristan and Isolde in which Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are the tragic loves of each other's lives.
		Brokeback Mountain is the most straightforward love story—and in some ways the straightest—to come out of Hollywood, at least since Titanic.
		Brokeback Mountain, which opens (finally) next week, is less a movie than a chunk of American landscape, or perhaps, as director Ang Lee suggests, a pioneering settlement on Hollywood's "one last frontier." Are those storm heads massed around Lee's conveniently designated "gay western"—or is it only a radiant cloud of hype?
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0548,hoberman,70461,20.html (772 words)

	Metromix. Movie review: ‘Brokeback Mountain'
		In "Brokeback Mountain," taken from the short story by Annie Proulx, the mountain in question serves as a love nest, a reckoning place and a world apart from the one a few thousand feet lower.
		"Brokeback Mountain" needs those scenes, but it comes alive when Ennis and Jack are living the lives to which they cannot confine themselves, struggling for a sense of place.
		The world director Lee shows us in "Brokeback Mountain" may be as remote to his own personal experience as, say, the post-Cheever Connecticut malaise in "The Ice Storm" (one of my favorite Lee pictures).
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-0501216-movies-review-brokeback,0,7412794.story?coll=mmx-movies_top_heds (1102 words)

	Toronto International Film Festival
		Brokeback Mountain is based on Annie Proulx's much-lauded short story, originally published in "The New Yorker" in 1997 and adapted by acclaimed novelists Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
		Brokeback Mountain can be read many ways: as a chronicle of shifting attitudes towards sexuality, as the representative moment when the Old West became the New West or even as a complex marriage between Douglas Sirk and Red River.
		Destined to be recognized as one of the greatest love stories ever put to film, Brokeback Mountain represents a new and lofty level of achievement for acclaimed director Ang Lee, talented young actors Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal and a powerhouse trio of writers.
	www.e.bell.ca /filmfest/2005/films_description.asp?id=42 (508 words)

	Brokeback Mountain Movie Review - Brokeback Mountain Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		''Brokeback Mountain" is based on the 1996 short story by Annie Proulx, and the script by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana honorably expands on the writer's weathered prose.
		The reason to see Ang Lee's ''Brokeback Mountain," and see it you should, isn't its hot-button topicality or its cultural cachet but simply that it's a very good movie, with a staggeringly fine performance by Heath Ledger.
		Brokeback Mountain Movie Review - Brokeback Mountain Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=7871 (811 words)

	BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
		Annie Proulx's beautiful, delicate short story "Brokeback Mountain," which first appeared to wide acclaim in The New Yorker in 1997, has been transformed into a beautiful, delicate movie under the masterly direction of Ang Lee.
		Following his strong performances in Monster's Ball and the underrated Ned Kelly, Brokeback Mountain makes it clear that Heath Ledger is one of the most gifted young actors in movies today.
		Director Lee (Sense and Sensibility; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) isn't afraid to take his time with the initial scenes on Brokeback Mountain, creating a vivid picture of the sheepherding life and making the unconventional relationship that develops between Ennis and Jack seem almost inevitable.
	filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001614300&imw=Y (690 words)

	A Picture of Two Americas In 'Brokeback Mountain'
		Based on an Annie Proulx short story, it's the tale of two young cowboys, Ennis Del Mar (Oscar-nominated Heath Ledger, in a superb performance) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal, also nominated), who are hired to spend the summer of 1963 up Wyoming's Brokeback Mountain, tending a herd of sheep far from civilization.
		The eight Academy Award nominations secured this week by Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" guarantee that not only will the film itself continue to prosper at the box office, but that the bitter culture war surrounding the gay-themed western will continue to be fought.
		A Picture of Two Americas In 'Brokeback Mountain'
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102477.html (657 words)

	Wyoming - Brokeback Mountain - WyomingTourism.org
		Proulx’s fictional short story, “Brokeback Mountain,” was set mainly in Wyoming and first appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 1997.
		While Brokeback Mountain is a fictitious place, the western (and nature) vacation experience is easily obtainable statewide in Wyoming, and is most worthy of eager pursuit.
		One day I was shooting some mountain peaks and they asked me what to write in the script supervising notes.
	wyomingtourism.org /cms/index.php?id=503 (645 words)

	Brokeback Mountain movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		Adapted from Annie Proulx's brilliant 1997 short story, Brokeback Mountain was directed by Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) from a script by the venerable Western novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) and Diana Ossana, and together they have coaxed Proulx's anecdotal, through-the-years narrative into a wistful epic of longing and loss.
		Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center.
		Ennis and Jack call each other ''friend,'' and they mean it, but their bond evolves into a delicate, suspended romance, and Brokeback Mountain becomes their Eden, the craggy cowboy paradise from which they are destined to fall.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1136099_1_0_,00.html (1139 words)

	Brokeback Mountain
		A beautifully epic Western, Brokeback Mountain's gay love story is embued with heartbreaking universality, helped by the moving performances of Ledger and Gyllenhaal.
		"Brokeback Mountain takes great pains to be a compassionate love story; but the filmmaking itself, self-consciously restrained and desiccated, is inert and inexpressive."
		"A beautifully epic Western, Brokeback Mountain's gay love story is...
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/brokeback_mountain (1382 words)

	Alibris: Buy Used Books, Used Textbooks, Rare Books, Out-of-Print & New Books
		One of Proulx's best works, this collection contains Brokeback Mountain, the powerful short story that inspired the acclaimed new film by Ang Lee.
		National Book Award nonfiction winner, this is as much an autobiography of the depth and stages of grief as a memoir of a life turned upside down.
		This eerie novel is one of the best books of 2005—as picked by The New York Times, respected authors, finicky critics, and other book lovers.
	alibris.com /search/search.cfm?S=R&...&qsort=p (203 words)

	DenverPost.com - HOME
		Like so many people who read "Brokeback Mountain," director Ang Lee recalls being stunned by Annie Proulx's magnificent yet spare short story about two Wyoming cowboys who meet in summer 1963 herding sheep and sustain a tender and tormented relationship for two decades.
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		Wide State of Sports, which runs each Friday, examines the memorable, less visible and lighthearted aspects of sports from the High Plains to the Western Slope.
	www.denverpost.com (292 words)

	Heath Ledger News
		Brokeback Mountain -Ang Lee directed this adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's short story about a ranch hand and a cowboy who fall in love in 1963 Wyoming.
		Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal portray cowboys who fall in love with each other in 'Brokeback Mountain' "Brokeback Mountain," the controversial film about homosexual cowboys in love, allegedly had a lack of...
		Jenny Stewart GAY.COM/PlanetOut Network more articles by Jenny Stewart When news spread last week that the two shirts worn by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain were being auctioned for...
	www.topix.net /who/heath-ledger (598 words)

	Michelle Williams News
		Brokeback Mountain -Ang Lee directed this adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's short story about a ranch hand and a cowboy who fall in love in 1963 Wyoming.
		Australian actor Heath Ledger, nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a leading role for his work in "Brokeback Mountain," and actress Michelle Williams, a nominee for best supporting actress for the same...
		Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams CREDIT: STEVE GRANITZ / WIREIMAGE Michelle Williams has a shot at collecting her first Oscar Sunday night for her performance in Brokeback Mountain, but not everyone is...
	www.topix.net /who/michelle-williams (627 words)

	Randy Quaid News
		Now showing at Crossroads Cinema BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid Based on the short story by E. Annie Proulx, comes an epic love story set...
		The first thing you're likely to hear about Brokeback Mountain, the new film from Ang Lee, is that it's about gay cowboys.
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	www.topix.net /who/randy-quaid (606 words)

	BREITBART.COM - Witherspoon, 'Crash' Win Top SAG Honors
		Adapted from Annie Proulx's short story about old sheepherding buddies who conceal a homosexual affair from their families, "Brokeback Mountain" also has earned top honors from key critics groups and the Producers Guild of America.
		Reese Witherspoon as singer June Carter in "Walk the Line" and Philip Seymour Hoffman as author Truman Capote in "Capote" won lead-acting awards Sunday from the Screen Actors Guild, while the ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off an upset win over Brokeback Mountain" for the overall cast award.
		Its loss to "Crash" could prove a speed-bump on the film's path toward becoming the first explicitly gay-themed movie to win a best picture award at the Oscars, but it has dominated earlier Hollywood honors, so it will likely continue to be considered the favorite.
	www.breitbart.com /news/2006/01/30/D8FEQ8780.html (839 words)

	Witherspoon, 'Crash' win top SAG honors - Boston.com
		Adapted from Annie Proulx's short story about old sheepherding buddies who conceal a homosexual affair from their families, "Brokeback Mountain" also has earned top honors from key critics groups and the Producers Guild of America.
		Reese Witherspoon as singer June Carter in "Walk the Line" and Philip Seymour Hoffman as author Truman Capote in "Capote" won lead-acting awards Sunday from the Screen Actors Guild, while the ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off an upset win over Brokeback Mountain" for the overall cast award.
		Felicity Huffman, who has been considered the best-actress Oscar front-runner for her gender-bending role in "Transamerica," lost to Witherspoon but won the guild prize for best actress in a TV comedy for "Desperate Housewives," which also won for best comedy ensemble.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/01/30/witherspoon_crash_win_top_sag_honors (894 words)

	Brokeback Mountain
		From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx and adapted for the screen by the team of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
		Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men — a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy — who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/brokeback_mountain/about.php (808 words)

	In the Bookroom - Blog on LibraryJournal.com - 770000077
		As faithful as the film adaptation reportedly is—Proulx herself said she "may be the first writer in America to have a piece of writing make its way to the screen whole and entire"—it cannot duplicate the deep and total immersion of reading the short story (not to mention Close Range's other selections).
		A few weeks ago, Brokeback Mountain scored several Golden Globe Awards, among them Best Screenplay for Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and on Monday it garnered a slew of Oscar nominations.
		With all the film hubbub, it's easy to forget that the love story between a rodeo cowboy and a ranch hand originally sprung from the pen of Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Annie Proulx.
	www.libraryjournal.com /blog/770000077.html (2782 words)

	eric forbes’s book addicts’ guide to good books
		PULITZER PRIZE-winner Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” first breathed life as an acclaimed short story in a 1997 issue of The New Yorker and was subsequently published as a novella in 1998.
		SO BEGINS Andrew Sean Greer’s heartbreakingly haunting love story, The Confessions of Max Tivoli (2004), a striking second novel that incorporates an intriguing plot twist that is by turns fascinating and horrific, told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards.
		What is at first an opening line will be resonant throughout the novel; this opening line will be the theme of the novel, and will ultimately propel its characters to their ends.
	goodbooksguide.blogspot.com (4221 words)

	NPR : From Page to Screen: 'Brokeback Mountain'
		All Things Considered, December 9, 2005 · Director Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is the story of the love and friendship between two cowboys in the early 1960s.
		Then, writers Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry discuss adapting Annie Proulx's 11-page short story into a two-hour film.
		NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the movie, which opens Friday.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5046849 (163 words)

	RadioFree.com Interviews: Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
		Based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain is the story of Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis (Heath Ledger), a pair of ranch hands who develop an intimate relationship during the summer of 1963.
		Brokeback Mountain is directed by Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and features a supporting cast that includes Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid, and Anna Faris.
		In this interview, Jake Gyllenhaal talks about the making of the movie and offers some insight into the relationship between Jack and Ennis.
	movies.radiofree.com /interviews/brokebac_jake_gyllenhaal.shtml (1188 words)

	Wyoming tales shine with a strange glitter
		Nothing here quite compares to the wrenching "Brokeback Mountain," an unconventional cowboy love story and arguably Proulx's best and most affecting short story.
		Proulx, author of "That Old Ace in the Hole" and "Accordion Crimes" and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for "The Shipping News," divides her time between Wyoming and Newfoundland and understands the simultaneous influences of tradition and inertia that bind people to places even as their lives fall apart.
		These are diverting, tall tales swapped across a beer-soaked table in a smoky, crowded bar -- bars being to small-town Wyoming what stoplights are to the distant suburbs -- where a forlorn Dwight Yoakam wails on the jukebox, and ghosts from old fistfights scuffle in the shadows.
	www.freep.com /features/books/proulx12e_20041212.htm (561 words)

	_.-+~* Velvet Revolver *~+-._
		Lee has also shot a short film - Hire, The Chosen (2001) - and is currently working on Brokeback Mountain (2005), a film based on a short story by E.Annie Proulx.
		Ang Lee is the director of The Hulk (2003), the movie for which VR recorded their first original 'Set Me Free'.
		After Lee wrote a couple of screenplays, he eventually appeared on the film scene with Pushing Hands (1992), a dramatic-comedy reflecting on generational conflicts and cultural adaptation, centering on the metaphor of the grandfather's Tai-Chi technique of "Pushing Hands".
	www.belowempty.com /vr/encyclopedia_ijkl.php (1191 words)

	Alibris: Buy Used Books, Used Textbooks, Rare Books, Out-of-Print & New Books
		One of Proulx's best works, this collection contains Brokeback Mountain, the powerful short story that inspired the acclaimed new film by Ang Lee.
		National Book Award nonfiction winner, this is as much an autobiography of the depth and stages of grief as a memoir of a life turned upside down.
		This eerie novel is one of the best books of 2005—as picked by The New York Times, respected authors, finicky critics, and other book lovers.
	alibris.com /search/search.cfm?S=R&...&qsort=p (211 words)

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