Charlene and Jackie discuss Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, a 2025 update of Ang Lee’s celebrated 1993 film starring Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang. 

Topics discussed include our favorite book to movie adaptations, how to retell a 1990s gay love story in 2025, Ang Lee being a repressed king, fake movie jobs, and how well placed plants can make a film more believable. 

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Time Stamped Notes: 

1:30 Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993) 

2:30 “I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about” - Ang Lee, maestro of unrequited desire 

5:45 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, published in the New Yorker in 1997 

10:00 James Schamus, co writer of both versions of The Wedding Banquet 

12:00 Lily Gladstone in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women 

19:00 Andrew Ahn’s authentic, intimate directing style and redefining the romcom 

25:40 The twists and turns of Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden 

27:15 Chaebol: a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family

36:06 Robin Williams teaches Nathan Lane to ‘Act Like a Man’ in The Birdcage 

38:33 The obligatory Romantic Comedy Grand Gesture 

43:17 Emma Thompson losing it in Sense and Sensibility 

50:34 Materialists Trailer featuring Pedro Pascals 12 Million Dollar Apartment 

51:25 Do I Look Like I Belong Here? Working Girl and the Secrets of Class Politics 

53:17 Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Non Fiction, french people getting in the literary zone 

54:05 Romeo and Juliet, or Juliet and Romeo????

54:54 You Can’t Out Baz Baz

58:29 The Historical Realism of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners

1:00:23 Tony McNamara on The Great - ‘‘Historians have to know we’re making mistakes on purpose’

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