After Brokeback Mountain, Jake Gyllenhaal often spoke about how Heath Ledger’s presence changed him. Heath’s raw passion and ...

This year marks 20 years since Brokeback Mountain hit theaters. The film starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two sheep herders who fall in... Looking back at ‘Brokeback Mountain’ This year ...

Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” tells the story of two young cowboys — Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) — herding sheep on the titular mountain in 1960s Wyoming. Over the ...

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I was in my 20s when I read the original Annie Proulx short story "Brokeback Mountain" in The New Yorker; I was floored by it. First, because it was a Western. I'd spent years reading New Yorker ...

I read further and met Ennis and Jack, two sheep herders who eke out a kind of strangled, self-loathing love story on the wind-whipped slopes of a mountain in Wyoming in the 1960s. I then realized why ...