The Wedding Banquet
This cycle showcases the cinematic works of filmmakers from East Asian diasporas, exploring North American identity in their films.
Winner of the Golden Bear, 1993 Berlin International Film Festival
Wai-Tung is Taiwanese and emigrated to the United States. He lives in New York with his partner Simon. His parents, who are still in Asia and to whom he hides his homosexuality, don't understand his celibacy and try to find him a wife. Wai-Tung arranges a marriage of convenience with Wei-Wei, his Chinese lodger in search of a green card. Wai-Tung's parents arrive in New York for the wedding...
Ang Lee
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed, hidden emotions. During his career, he has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, two Golden Lions in Venice, and two Golden Bears in Berlin. In 2003, he was ranked 27th in The Guardian's 40 best directors. Born in Pingtung County, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. He rose to prominence directing films such as Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western; the three films are informally known as the Father Knows Best trilogy. The films were critically successful both in Taiwan and internationally. His breakthrough in Hollywood was the costume drama Sense and Sensibility (1995), which was also his first entirely English-language film. Lee went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Director twice for the romantic drama Brokeback Mountain (2005) and the survival drama Life of Pi (2012). He directed films in a broad range of genres, including the drama The Ice Storm (1997), the martial arts drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), the superhero blockbuster Hulk (2003) and the erotic espionage drama Lust, Caution (2007).
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