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Hsi yen, aka The Wedding Banquet (1993)

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2008-01-17 02:37:26 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...banquet and instead, forces them to suffer the indignity of a civil ceremony at City Hall Dining out, Mr. Gao is recognized by his former driver, Chen (Tien Pien). Chen owns the restaurant, and is insulted that a man as respected as his former commander should suffer a wedding dinner so puny. Chen throws a grand banquet, inviting some 200...
 
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Just who the hell says "Banquet" these days anyway?

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2008-07-28 10:42:00 by Fletch in Blog Cabins: Insanely Important Film Reviews
 
...banquet beer." Now, it may well have been called the banquet beer for decades, but who has ever called it that, and who's going to start calling it that now, just because Cowboy Sam says so? I dare you to walk into your local bar and say "Give me a banquet" - you're liable to get a few strange looks, I'd imagine, and possibly your ass kicked...
 
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Fan Rant: 'The Banquet' Gets Degraded With a "Legendary" New Title

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2008-02-26 00:00:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
...Banquet , Feng Xiaogang's loose, Chinese-language adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet played various film festivals (Venice, Toronto, AFI Fest, Palm Springs, Portland, Seattle, New York Asian) and garnered a fair amount of praise. Featuring many stately speeches, beautiful costumes, and stars Ziyi Zhang and Daniel Wu , The Banquet struck me as...
 
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Yin shi nan nu, aka Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

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2008-01-20 03:11:52 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...banquet party disaster. He confides to his friend Old Wen (Jui Wang) that he wishes all his daughters would move out so that he could lead a quiet life. They believe their father has remained a widower out of obligation to them, oblivious to his feelings for Jin-Rong (Sylvia Chang), a young single mother and friend of the family Chus...
 
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Daisies (Sedmikrásky, 1966)

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2008-07-21 14:00:05 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...banquet hall resplendent with elegant and exotic dishes and proceed to eat, throw food at each other, and smash dishes with abandon. After this epic food fight, they end up swinging on the crystal chandelier hanging above the table. They suddenly must repair everything they have broken, placing pieces of dishes together like a mosaic and...
 
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WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY?The Evening Class Interview With Bill Talen and Savitri D.

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2007-11-18 19:16:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...banquet rooms. It was a corrupt political dinner and each table was a surreal special interest group. This was around 1991 and it was an exaggeration of what was becoming rampant at the time. I had a spin doctor whispering in my ear. Another spin doctor whispering in the spin doctor's ear and so forth and so on, like a barbershop mirror into...
 
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The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)

2008-04-10 01:54:00 by Yunda Eddie Feng in HD DVD Reviews
 
...Banquet , Eat Drink Man Woman , The Ice Storm , Crouching Tiger , and Hulk --a parental figure prevents a child from self-actualizing. With Brokeback Mountain and Lust, Caution , this theme has been finessed to society preventing children from self-actualizing. (Lee was a gun-for-hire on Sense and Sensibility , and Ride With the Devil is too...
 
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Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration

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2008-05-03 19:19:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...banquet for the anti-Nazi exile and prominent Catholic Prince Hubertus zu Lowenstein. Doherty contends that Breen supported the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, which was left as left could be although Breen most assuredly was not. Doherty's evidence for this is that Breen attended the League's first-year anniversary celebration, as well as the...
 
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BKKIFF '08: Festival notes part two

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2008-09-28 13:26:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...banquet. I can't say I feel like I'm missing out. I'd rather watch films. Any minute now, they are going to be handing out the Golden Kinaree Awards at the banquet over at the Pullman Hotel. I'm going to go watch a German gay zombie movie -- Otto; or Up with Dead People -- and will catch up on the awards results afterward Fug or fabulous ...
 
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