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Join Charlene and Jackie, two NYC film crew workers with an absolute love of art house films …and an absolute lack of press passes to see those films at the major festivals where they premiere.
Each month your two hosts will venture through the wilds of NYC public transportation and psychotic post screening Q&A’s to discuss a festival film that has finally been released to the general public.
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The Wedding Banquet (2025)
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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