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The Wed­ding Ban­quet | Seek­ing Mavis Bea­con | The Wed­ding Ban­quet (1993)

09 May 2025

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On Truth & Movies this week, we dis­cuss The Wed­ding Ban­quet, a film­mak­er goes on a quest to meet a touch typ­ing icon in Seek­ing Mavis Bea­con, Rógan Gra­ham is here to talk to us about her BFI sea­son The Black Debu­tantes and final­ly, for film club, we revis­it Ang Lee’s The Wed­ding Ban­quet (1993).

Join­ing host Leila Latif are Cheyenne Bart-Stew­art and Lau­ra Venning.

Truth & Movies is the pod­cast from the film experts at Lit­tle White Lies, where along with select­ed col­leagues and friends, they dis­cuss the lat­est movie releas­es. Truth & Movies has all your film needs cov­ered, review­ing the lat­est releas­es big and small, talk­ing to some of the most excit­ing film­mak­ers, keep­ing you across impor­tant indus­try news, and reassess­ing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.

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