Repeating the success of "Crouching Tiger" is probably impossible.

Scenes from the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon were filmed on location in Hongcun.

As he positioned himself to stand up straight, to stretch the muscles at the base of his spine-pained by crouchIng--Us foot touched a hard, unyie7lding surface.

Peter Pau - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)

There, from the blowing and raining, Crouching, I sought to hide me: Something rustled, two green eyes shone, And a wolf lay down beside me.

The Global Times gave the film four stars, stating that it was "the best wuxia film since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

He is also known for creating visual effects for American Beauty, Crouching Tiger, Big Lebowski and X-Men.

Ang Lee's romantic martial arts epic, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," packed them in again last weekend at multiplexes across the United States.

Sony Pictures Classics came under fire for sending academy members both a videocassette of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and weeks later a DVD.

The more "The First Emperor" sounds like "Crouching Tiger" the better; the more it sounds like updated "Turandot," the more tedious it becomes.

In the "Art and Power" installation, "Liberated Man" echoes the pose of "Crouching Prisoner in Saint-Cyprien," Nussbaum's firsthand news from the concentration camps.

Chang portrayed "Dark Cloud", the lover of Zhang Ziyi's character, in the 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee.

Her seven performers ("action engineers," in Strebese) run to the screen, leap up "Crouching Tiger" style and slam their feet or bodies into it, two feet from the tots .

In the enfilade of smaller rooms alongside the skylight rooms the Italian and Spanish fine art of the 15th-17th centuries, including Michelangelo's Crouching Boy and paintings by El Greco.

"Somebody made a fortune off this movie in China, and not a penny of it will make its way back to the filmmakers," said James Schamus, a screenwriter and executive producer of "Crouching Tiger."

After all, Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," a martial arts film set in China and starring Ms. Zhang, was the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history.

It remains one of the most acclaimed Chinese language films ever made, appearing at number 11 in a 2005 centennial list by the Hong Kong Film Awards, immediately below Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

ISMAIL MERCHANT Producer, director I'M looking forward to Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

(Isherwood) 'THE JADED ASSASSIN' Imagine mediocre professional wrestling mixed with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," and you get the idea (1:15).

Dear God, I offer up to you this work I do today.... Crouching in the shadows of the choir balcony high above the altar, Sister Sandrine peered silently through the balustrade at the cloaked monk kneeling alone.

On the other end of the spectrum is Ang Lee's winning, sophisticated and equally enduring "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" - though inescapable might be the word for it, since the picture still seems to be running on some airlines.

It is a strategy that has worked in the past for unconventional nominees like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Chocolat" in 2001, though this year there seem to be more candidates and more room for such candidates than usual.

'CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON' There aren't many who would choose to parody the loony conventions of the Hong Kong action film and to simultaneously give them dramatic weight.

I felt the same way about three other entrees on an eight-item specials menu that changes frequently: shrimp and eggplant curry, almond crispy prawns, and something called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a vast assemblage of fried chicken, pork and shrimp.

The second thing she did was move forward into a crouch.

The young man got to his feet, still in a crouch.

I went down into a crouch and felt around near my feet.

Crouch has been so much better in the second half.

He was still in his crouch on the far side of the room.

Everything set, I went over the top and came up into a crouch.

I got up and ran in a crouch away from the house.

He got up from his crouch and walked about a lot.

He rose up from his crouch and started to run.

The man was in a crouch, and held a gun.

"We finally decided to get our power game going," Crouch said.

He was at a crouch when the floor gave way beneath him.

He rose from his crouch as the two men started to turn back to the computer.

I rose to a crouch and looked through the open back door.

It took him a moment to rise again to a crouch.

Then the man moving called something and rose to a crouch.

From the crouch position, she pushed the door open into the room.

Crouch found the key, and started to play the piano.

He moved into a crouch on the balls of his feet.

They moved in a crouch, trying to set their feet only on grass.

Stanley Crouch is a man your eyes do not want to leave.

As she came up into a crouch, he fired, from off to her right.

Because of the injury, Crouch left the team before playing a game.

The best way to prepare for a service return is to get in the crouch position.

At a comfortable crouch I moved along the side of the house, looking for a window.

He crouched alone on the far side of his father's fire.

The man crouched back with his hands in the air.

I made my way over to him and crouched down.

His wife is crouched at the head of their son's body.

She came around in front of me, and crouched down.

She found him crouched on the other side of the room.

Once on the top they crouched down and looked about them.

The second crouched off to her side, talking in a low voice.

He was very still, half crouched over her, as though running the words through his head again.

No one had eyes for the boy crouched in the water by the wall.

A little later, he looked at the others as they crouched around the fire.

He made for the next bush and crouched behind it.

The man next to him, crouched down now, said nothing.

But then he had crouched down and taken her in his arms.

I then crouched down, and took her in my arms.

One of the men, who had crouched down to see better, moved.

Then the woman crouched down before him and told this story.

May's father came toward them and crouched as if to take May in his arms.

I had seen his eyes as he crouched next to me on the floor.

It would be too dark to see him crouched in there.

It was a bad moment as she crouched there, looking at him.

The pain moved up and crouched just behind his eyes.

He crouched down to get on the boy's eye level.

They had crouched waiting at the side of the room.

He went to the woman and crouched to speak with her.