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Ahn tells IndieWire the 1993 Ang Lee hit was the first gay film he ever saw, but that his version of "The Wedding Banquet" owes more to Lee's 1994 follow-up, "Eat Drink Man Woman." ...
The Wedding Banquet is a rare kind of remake. In revisiting Ang Lee’s queer 1993 dramedy of the same name, writer-director Andrew Ahn enlisted one of its original screenwriters, James Schamus ...
The badly burned body of a young man was found at Georgia’s Stone Mountain State Park on Saturday morning, and authorities later said he died by suicide. Officials made the tragic determination ...
Ahn tells IndieWire the 1993 Ang Lee hit was the first gay film he ever saw, but that his version of "The Wedding Banquet" owes more to Lee’s 1994 follow-up, “Eat Drink Man Woman.” Chris ...
The final shot of Ang Lee ’s 1993 The Wedding Banquet is a singular indication of a generation’s unprecedented romantic hopes. Wai-Tung Gao (Winston Chao), his boyfriend Simon (Mitchell ...
Ang Lee’s 1993 queer classic, “The Wedding Banquet,” gets a modern update from director Andrew Ahn and stars Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone and Kelly Marie Tran.
It takes a while for “The Wedding Banquet,” Ang Lee’s 1993 hit romantic comedy, to get to the big event of the title, but it’s worth the wait. The bride, Wei-Wei (May Chin), and the groom ...
Georgia's Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the largest Confederate carving in the country — has been a point of contention for years. The 3,200-acre park ...
When Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” was released back in 1993, the AIDS epidemic was still taking lives, marriage equality in the U.S. was decades away and queer representation in media ...
“Fire Island” filmmaker Andrew Ahn reunites with "Wicked" actor Yang for a reimagining of Ang Lee’s Golden Bear-winning 1993 film. Writer/director Ahn co-wrote the 2025 take on “The ...
"The Wedding Banquet" is a remake of Ang Lee's romantic comedy about marriages of convenience. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to director Andrew Ahn about the four gay friends, family and tolerance.