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

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).

Dumb Money + Craig Gillespie | Strange Way Of Life | Brokeback Mountain (2005)

On Truth & Movies this week, we take a look at stranger-than-fic­tion tale of Red­dit vs Wall Street in Dumb Mon­ey and spoke to it’s direc­tor Craig Gille­spie. We also review Pedro Almodovar’s high­ly antic­i­pat­ed short film Strange Way Of Life star­ring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pas­cal for­mer lovers in the wild west. And for film club it is more cow­boys and for­bid­den love in Ang Lee’s Broke­back Mountain.

How Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm stays warm 25 years later

by Kevin Bui

This chilly por­trait of an all-Amer­i­can fam­i­ly is a fas­ci­nat­ing and empa­thet­ic char­ac­ter study.

Gemini Man, duplicates and crises of masculinity

by Kambole Campbell

Ang Lee’s sci-fi thriller explores male inti­ma­cy and depen­den­cy through a time-hon­oured trope.

Get a double dose of Will Smith in the Gemini Man trailer

by Charles Bramesco

The actor plays both an assas­sin and his tar­get in Ang Lee’s lat­est epic.

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

by Adam Nayman

Ang Lee takes Amer­i­can excep­tion­al­ism to task in this hyper-real spectacle.

Life of Pi

by Andrew Schenker

Ang Lee’s daz­zling CG dream­world basks in the dan­ger of sea-bound soli­tude, but it all cloaks a big, banal reli­gious metaphor.