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MC Moot
05-09-2005, 12:14 PM
Hello,
I have 2 favorites in which the way or the preperation and presentaion of food is portrayed leaves ya hungry and humbled....food really is the subject matter around which the plot or subject of the film unfolds....
"Big Night" A small american Italian restaurant waits for Louis Prima,and waits,and waits and....
"Eat Drink Man Woman" A retired chef and 3 daughters meet each Sunday for a traditional dinner all that holds a family growing in different directions together....Taiwanese with subtitles
Any you like?
iceygirl
05-09-2005, 12:15 PM
chocolat
MC Moot
05-09-2005, 12:36 PM
chocolat
Yessss! Damn, it was on this weekend to,good one! (y)
"Delicatessen" French,funny as hell but not at all appetizing!
"The Dinner Game" French,subtle humour,cruelty gets the last kick!
"The Cook, the Thief, His wife and Her lover" Another wack cannabalistic French flick.... :D
Mr.Right
05-09-2005, 12:37 PM
La Grand Bouffe.
hellojello
05-09-2005, 12:40 PM
like water for chocolate
MC Moot
05-09-2005, 01:11 PM
La Grand Bouffe.
Ce qui est La Gran Bouffe? The big buffet? Humour?
MC Moot
05-09-2005, 01:13 PM
like water for chocolate
That's a movie that I have passed over many times,despite it's good reputation,gracias!
ms.peachy
05-09-2005, 01:33 PM
Hello,
I have 2 favorites in which the way or the preperation and presentaion of food is portrayed leaves ya hungry and humbled....food really is the subject matter around which the plot or subject of the film unfolds....
"Big Night" A small american Italian restaurant waits for Louis Prima,and waits,and waits and....
"Eat Drink Man Woman" A retired chef and 3 daughters meet each Sunday for a traditional dinner all that holds a family growing in different directions together....Taiwanese with subtitles
Any you like?
Those are both excellent choices.
I can't hink of any offhand but I am a bit brain-fatigued; busy day at work. I'm sure something will pop into my head eventually...
iceygirl
05-09-2005, 01:37 PM
ive had chocolate on the brain ever since i read this post
(n)
:( :rolleyes: :D
b-grrrlie
05-09-2005, 02:22 PM
like water for chocolate
That was called Love hot as chili here
another chocolate movie: Strawberries and chocolate, Cuban gay movie
Fried green tomatoes
The Scent of Green Papaya
Coffee and cigarettes (if you count coffee as food)
can Frankie and Johnny be counted in (well there's eggs)
American Pie :p
and there was one about chocolate and vineyard with Keanu Reeves, can't remember its name now...
MC Moot
05-09-2005, 02:41 PM
can Frankie and Johnny be counted in (well there's eggs)...
hmmmmm well if that does count so does "Alive" ;)
ericg
05-09-2005, 03:55 PM
"Cooking Under Fire" -PBS
I couldn't even get through "Chocolat". People say it's good, but it was so mildly irrelevent and boring as hell, I couldn't stand it. It was like some horribly bad waste of time like an English independant film on PBS. I just couldn't be bothered. And really, I almost never quit on a movie. What's up with that. Charley and the Chocolate Factory.. I hope yields... and true to the original!!!!!! But I don't really expect it to be....
The cooking show with the English lady always has some underlying tension with the guests, like Remote Control... or as refered to in the Beastie Menu, Rem-Haute Cuisine.. its just stupid.
Maybe you could throw Spanglish in there, or Survivor with the raw fish ..., or the Company... I don't know of any food films per se.
MC Moot
05-09-2005, 04:13 PM
"Cooking Under Fire" -PBS
I couldn't even get through "Chocolat". People say it's good, but it was so mildly irrelevent and boring as hell, I couldn't stand it....
I thought it was quaint,nice setting...but I'll tell you this,Deppe played the worst interpretation of a "Gypsy" I have ever seen...it was like he was from Memphis or something,goddamn playing blues slide guitar...that was horribly out of context,despite the priests affinity for American music....I did think it spoke quite well to religious fervor and abusive relationships....I really hear the "BBC or PBS production" shot though,funny! Seriously though, after "Horseman on the Roof" I could watch Juliette Binoche read the dictionary by the foot of my bed....urrrr.....yeah....thats it ;)
harold and kumar go to white castle.
willy wonka and the chocolate factory.
hellojello
05-09-2005, 10:17 PM
That's a movie that I have passed over many times,despite it's good reputation,gracias!
i haven't actually seen it, but i've read the book and it sure made me hungry.
ms.peachy
05-10-2005, 04:09 AM
"The Cook, the Thief, His wife and Her lover" Another wack cannabalistic French flick.... :D
Isn't that a British film? Peter Greenaway directed it, and most of the cast are brits at any rate. Or maybe it was a Pathe joint thing I suppose. I'll go look it up.
......
ok, joint UK/France production.
Aaaaanyway, I can't believe I forgot this one until now, but of course Babette's Feast (http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/11739.htm) is a materwork of the allegorical employment of food preparation.
MC Moot
05-10-2005, 09:14 AM
Isn't that a British film?......ok, joint UK/France production.....Aaaaanyway, I can't believe I forgot this one until now, but of course Babette's Feast (http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/11739.htm) is a materwork of the allegorical employment of food preparation.
That's bizarre because in my memory I had that movie down as being french dialogue.....and I don't recall Tim Roth in it at all...but the end scene in which they "plate up" is burned in the synapses quite deeply.....I think my local may have "Babette's Feast",sounds familiar, or maybe a remake of it not sure..... :)
Mr.Right
05-10-2005, 09:36 AM
Ce qui est La Gran Bouffe? The big buffet? Humour?
Voilá:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0070130/
MC Moot
05-10-2005, 11:35 AM
Voilá:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0070130/
Marcello Mastroianni viva la postiino! That sounds interesting!Time to put the video clerk to work.....
Merci!
enree erzweglle
05-10-2005, 11:45 AM
I remember laughing at an old movie called Fatso, where the main character (Dom Deluise) is trying to lose weight while living with/among his Italian, food-loving family.
Jasonik
05-10-2005, 01:05 PM
Tampopo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/tampoponrhinson_a0c94d.htm) (y) (y)
MC Moot
05-10-2005, 01:38 PM
Tampopo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/tampoponrhinson_a0c94d.htm) (y) (y)
Nice! That is a good one! Totally forgot about it, I think the same director did a film called "Shower" about the demise of the traditional bat houses in Japan.....Udon! (y)
yeahwho
05-10-2005, 04:53 PM
Silence of the Lambs
IDIOTSVILLE
05-11-2005, 01:43 PM
supersize me.
thats why i don't eat mcdonalds anymore
IDIOTSVILLE
05-11-2005, 01:44 PM
except from drinks and mcflurry's
ericg
05-11-2005, 01:57 PM
Frosty the Snowman
He can always re-up. Be good though or he'll Jack Frost ya.
IDIOTSVILLE
05-11-2005, 01:59 PM
Frosty the Snowman
He can always re-up. Be nice though or he'll freeze ya.
That's a good one
ericg
05-11-2005, 02:02 PM
Word.
Glad you dig it.
ericg
05-11-2005, 02:26 PM
Sideways...
And on that tip I know another fine finger lickin' spread that's good.. it tends to be a bit cheesy, but ages very well.. a delightful delicacy... that's just deliriously deserving to the bone. I've been watching my weight and rarely eat there though. Well, I've been starving myself actually to make room for the real deal. Anyway, I don't want to make this into a whole thing. Forgive me.
IDIOTSVILLE
05-11-2005, 02:44 PM
Chicken Run
ericg
05-11-2005, 02:52 PM
fuck you'll be sayin' lamb chop or charlette's web next.
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