In 2005, Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” hit theaters and became a cultural phenomenon. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, and the late Heath Ledger. The film went on to win three Academy Awards Best Directing for Lee, Best Original Score for Gustavo Santaolalla, and Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.
The pair adapted the film from the short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx.
To celebrate “Brokeback Mountain”’s 20th anniversary, Focus Features will be re-releasing it in theaters nationwide. These special screenings will take place on June 22nd and 25th.
“Brokeback Mountain,” is an epic western that tells the story of two cowboys Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) and Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal). In the summer of 1963, the pair set out to work, you guessed it, Brokeback Mountain. These cowboys eventually fall for each other, but their relationship gets complicated when they both decide to marry their respective girlfriends.
Proulx’s short story of the same name was first published in 1997, in The New Yorker. It garnered Proulx the National Magazine Award for Fiction. The 2000 short story collection “Close Range: Wyoming Stories” contains a slightly extended version of this Pulitzer Prize finalist tale.
You can get tickets to the 20th anniversary showings of “Brokeback Mountain” on June 22nd and 25th here. Check out the new trailer below:
