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Not a foodie film, but a foodie short we did for a competition. It is pretty hilarious!! Borrow heavily from Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love and 2046.

In the mood for tuna shot by sarah krusen-chen

HI,

Lovely. How did the competition settle out?

Regards,

The Sandwich Movie is a short, animated documentary created by Sean Christensen about a “very important” sandwich his older sister made early one morning before he flew to Europe with the Phoenix Boys Choir in 1997. It’s short, and not exactly groundbreaking, but exploits how small things, like a crappy sandwich, can tell a larger story. It could be the prologue in an episode of This American Life about uneaten meals or something.

I just saw Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love. From the single review I had read before going (from the Reader), I thought it would be worth seeing for the Milan cityscape, and also because I'm kind of a sucker for Tilda Swinton in any movie with a vaguely Shakespearean plot. It turns out food is central to this film, including a forboding cake box, a rapturous scene with Swinton and a plate of shrimp and ratatouille, homoerotic eggplant with elderflower syrup, a possibly incestuous box of Ladurée macarons and a pivotal and ultimately devastating serving of ukah. Anthony Lane in the New Yorker, whom I read after seeing the movie, gets it mostly right.

THE TRIP

2010, Michael Winterbottom, UK, 107 min.
With Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon

"A mostly improvised, totally hilarious road movie."
—Karina Longworth, Village Voice

"Funny and strangely affecting...in its wry pricking of supercilious egos, suggests a more self-aware version of SIDEWAYS."
—Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine

After the harrowing THE KILLER INSIDE ME, the unpredictable Winterbottom shifts gears yet again to come up with a mellow, hugely enjoyable road comedy. Reprising their shtick from Winterbottom's TRISTRAM SHANDY, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play skewed versions of themselves--Coogan the pompous narcissist, Brydon the sly, salt-of-the-earth needler. Coogan is hired by the Observer to take a culinary tour of the Lake District; when his girlfriend jilts him, he brings Brydon as a last-minute substitute. The two wits amble through gorgeous scenery, dine on scrumptious gourmet food, recite Romantic poetry, discourse on matters trivial (food stuck in teeth) and profound (death), and try to one-up each other with hilarious movie-star impressions (their dueling Michael Caines are a special highlight). In English. Special advance screening courtesy of IFC Films. (MR)

Immediately following the screening, the audience is invited to a closing night reception hosted by Whole Foods Market.

Has anyone seen Who's Killing the Great Chef's of Europe? I've been trying to see that but its hard to get. It was made back in the l970's.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078488/

according to netflix it doesnt exist yet on DVD. i saw it, and it was not memorable. you really arent missing anything. it's much more about the stars than about food, as i recall. justjoan

Over at the blog I write for we hold a movie night every Monday and one of our writers hosts a discussion with the filmmaker. This week, the film with be "Danny Meyer: The Restauranteur" and our guest will be Roger Sherman who made the film which is described as "an intimate documentary" following Danny Meyer as he opens Tabla and Eleven Madison Park. The trailer can be seen here: http://www.florentinefilms.com/sherman/ ... auranteur/

Come on by and join the discussion - Firedoglake Movie Night at http://www.firedoglake.com at 7PM CDT Monday March 28.