Ahn says that Lee's version of the film was the first queer Asian-American film he saw, and helped inspire him to tell his own stories. That's the power of representation and authenticity in film.

Angela Lora spoke through tears Thursday in Lehigh County Court as she addressed her daughter’s killer shortly after he admitted to fatally shooting the young woman through her closed apartment door.

Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,” which opens in theaters Friday, is the most personal of remakes. Even that word, “remake,” his ...