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, Wai-Tung ...
"But when the king came in to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. The king said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?' But he ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The filmmaker Andrew Ahn grew up in what he calls “a Blockbuster Video family.” They would rent three or four movies every weekend. When Ahn was 8, his mom rented the VHS for Ang Lee's ...
It’s difficult to get excited about a remake. Even now, after years of watching brave executives hack away at the walls of the content mines with their billion-dollar pickaxes to unearth intellectual ...
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 beyond ...
The 2025 Wedding Banquet movie with Bowen Yang opens in theaters this weekend, proving that the art of the Hollywood remake is not yet dead. This remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy—which, sadly, ...
Lee's 1993 film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Ahn reinvents Ang Lee’s Golden Bear-winning 1993 film for a new era, 30 years later. Writer/director Ahn co-wrote the ...