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The Wedding Banquet (2025)5 ImagesIs Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet a remake, an update, or a new film that happens to share the same title as a queer classic? Released in 1993, Ang Lee’s melancholic comedy The Wedding Banquet was ground-breaking at the time for its depiction of gay Asian-Americans, chosen family, and various culture clashes (old and young; East and West; Caucasian and Asian).

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Alonso Ruizpalacios’s searing new kitchen-set drama takes us inside the messy, chaotic heart of a Times Square restaurant For nearly two decades, Alonso Ruizpalacios has been trying to cook up a comedy-drama about chaotic, charismatic restaurant workers who verbally and physically fight like family members.

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As his new film When Autumn Falls is released in UK cinemas, we recommend five films from the French cinematic stylist Provocative and prolific, François Ozon has directed 23 full-length features in 26 years, usually with a solo screenplay credit, too. What’s more, the 57-year-old French auteur is versatile: no two Ozon films are alike, except that they all showcase his trademark mischievousness, often with an icon of French cinema in the ensemble.