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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." ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sundance: Andrew Ahn's update on the 1993 classic of the same name follows two gay couples in crisis, but it’s the matriarchs who shine. 'The Wedding Banquet’ Review: A Blandly Charming Ang ...
"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.