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As in the earlier film, the wedding ceremony is the high point: Min, the regal bridegroom in traditional Korean garb, enters the banquet hall with a solemnity that makes him seem like a true ...
They would rent three or four movies every weekend. When Ahn was 8, his mom rented the VHS for Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet.” “She was like, ‘It’s this Asian movie that white people ...
What a cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-chan, and Bowen Yang. Remaking Ang Lee's award-winning 1993 queer rom-com The Wedding Banquet is no mean feat, but Fire Island's Andrew Ahn ...
“The Wedding Banquet” doesn’t simply slap a new coat of paint on a faded project; it finds new resonance in a classic story, setting a standard every remake of this nature should aim fo ...
‘The Wedding Banquet’ in English and Korean, with subtitles, opens April 18, AMC Kabuki Theater, 1881 Post St. www.amctheatres.com www.bleeckerstreetmedia.com Never miss a story! Keep up to date on ...
From left: Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-Chan and Bowen Yang in "The Wedding Banquet." (Courtesy Bleecker Street/ShivHans Pictures) One would have hoped our society had progressed ...
But The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee’s’ 1993 breakout feature, is actually an inspired vehicle to revisit. Thirty years ago, gay marriage wasn’t legal in America, and most general audience LGBTQ ...
A retelling of Ang Lee’s classic of queer cinema comes at the same farcical situation in a new way. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...
Gay marriage was illegal when Ang Lee released 1993’s “The Wedding Banquet,” a New York-set romantic dramedy about a queer Taiwanese man, his white male partner and the female Chinese ...
Stylistically, “The Wedding Banquet” has the gauzy look and feel of prestige television. During a faux bachelorette party for Angela, the friends gather at a spacious queer dance club so ...