Ride with the Devil: Apocalypse Then
By April 28, 2010
Just over halfway through Ang Lee’s masterful Civil War drama Ride with the Devil, the small group of men at the story’s center, young, Southern-sympathizing Bushwhackers fighting Read more »
- United States
- 1999
- 148 minutes
- Color
- 2.35:1
- English
- Spine #514
SYNOPSIS: With this new director’s cut, Ang Lee reconstructs his original vision for Ride with the Devil, a harrowing, unorthodox Civil War epic. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, the film follows Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull (Skeet Ulrich), who join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack Bull’s father is killed by abolitionist Jayhawkers, and find an unusual ally in Holt (Jeffrey Wright), who’s fighting for the South despite being a former slave. A rumination on identity and loyalty, both political and personal, Ride with the Devil is a provocative challenge to preconceptions about America’s bloodiest conflict.
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Cast
| Daniel Holt | Jeffrey Wright |
| Jake Roedell | Tobey Maguire |
| Jack Bull Chiles | Skeet Ulrich |
| George Clyde | Simon Baker |
| Pitt Mackesen | Jonathan Rhys Meyers |
| Black John | James Caviezel |
| Sue Lee Shelley | Jewel |
| Riley Crawford | Tom Guiry |
| Orton Brown | Tom Wilkinson |
Credits
| Director | Ang Lee |
| Screenplay | James Schamus |
| Based on the novel Woe to Live On by | Daniel Woodrell |
| Producer | James Schamus |
| Editor | Tim Squyres |
| Music | Mychael Danna |
| Director of photography | Frederick Elmes |
| Production designer | Mark Friedberg |
| Costume designer | Marit Allen |
| Casting | Avy Kaufman |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer of Ang Lee’s director’s cut, supervised and approved by Lee and director of photography Frederick Elmes (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Two audio commentaries, one featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus, and one featuring Elmes, sound designer Drew Kunin, and production designer Mark Friedberg
- New video interview with star Jeffrey Wright
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Godfrey Cheshire and Edward E. Leslie, author of The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders
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Press Notes: Ride with the Devil
May 11, 2010
When it was originally released in the fall of 1999, Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil was underrated by critics and thus underseen by audiences. Now this complex Civil War drama has a new lease Read more »
