JUSTIN LIN & ANG LEE Hang Out! Grassroots Day 13/14/15

WOW!  What an amazing opening weekend in NYC!  Thanks so much for everyone who turned out for our NYC Opening Weekend.  And for those of you New Yorkers who have not caught FTG yet, it's still playing right now at IFC Center Theater in the West Village.  Catch it today or this upcoming weekend!

Justin Lin with Ang Lee at the Director's Guild of America

After an amazing opening weekend, the FTG posse packed up and headed back home to Los Angeles (if only for a short, short while).  We'll miss you Hell's Kitchen!  Though day 13, 14, & 15 of our Grassroots will be spent in our home town, it does not mean that the grassroots party is over.  It's more of a laundry stop before we head to SD, SF, Hawaii, Vancouver, & Toronto.  But that's later...  Once I got home and took a quick shower, I got a phone call from Justin.  All he said was, "He, so I'm headed over to the Director's Guild of America to hang out with Ang Lee, wanna come?"  My response..."Hell yeah dawg!  Gots to go hang with da man who made the HULK and dat gay cowboy movie!"

So I met up with Sal, Julie, Sung, & Justin at the Director's Guild of America to hang out with Ang.  He was doing a special screening of his new film "Lust, Caution" for a small group of friends and associates.  I must say, it was very cool to have the BLT/FTG camp hanging with the HULK/BROKEBACK posse.  Though we are very different in many ways, it was amazing to find out how similar we all are in terms of our creative vision of the future.  Ang's a great guy...very quite and soft spoken...but very wise...kinda like an Asian Yoda.  I thought "Lust, Caution" was an amazing film...though I think all the sex press really misrepresents the film.  It's more espionage/noir than naked asian humpy humpy flick.  After the film, Justin did a Q&A session with Ang.  Definitely a very cool site to see.  2 awesome filmmakers just hanging on stage talking about life, film, and dreams.  2 filmmakers, 2 dreamers, 2 dudes...Both Asian American.  Pretty fuckin cool.  Tomorrow we trip down to San Diego for the Opening Night of the San Diego Asian American Film Festival!!!  Crusing down with Dustin & Sung...should be interesting...

Ang & Justin have the same wardrobe stylist.  They were both a study in Gap.