Film Society of Lincoln Center to Host Screening of Wayne Wang's SOUL OF A BANQUET

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced a special screening of Wayne Wang's Soul of a Banquet to be held at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 West 65th Street) on Saturday, October 19 at 7:00PM. The director and documentary subject, Cecilia Chiang will be in attendance for a Q&A immediately following the screening.

Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) surprises audiences again with his twentieth feature and first documentary, about San Francisco restaurateur and chef Cecilia Chiang. Merely intending to capture footage of the then-92-year-old Chiang (who counts culinary legends James Beard, Alice Waters, and Julia Child among her students), preparing a banquet in her apartment, Wang became so enraptured with his subject (who founded SF's legendary restaurant The Mandarin in 1961) that he opted to expand his project to a feature-length account of Chiang's extraordinary life, an oral history of Chinese food in America, and a mouth-watering spectacle of Chiang concocting her cuisine. Chef Alice Waters and food writer Ruth Reichl provide context for this nourishing multi-course feast.

Tickets are on sale now: $13; $9 for students and seniors (62+); and $8 for Film Society members.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
Founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center works to recognize established and emerging filmmakers, support important new work, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility, and understanding of the moving image. The Film Society produces the renowned New York Film Festival, a curated selection of the year's most significant new film work, and presents or collaborates on other annual New York City festivals including Dance on Camera, Film Comment Selects, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Latinbeat, New Directors/New Films, NewFest, New York African Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. In addition to publishing the award-winning Film Comment magazine, the Film Society recognizes an artist's unique achievement in film with the prestigious Chaplin Award. The Film Society's state-of-the-art Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, located at Lincoln Center, provide a home for year-round programs and the New York City film community.

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