[Sca-cooks] OOP - Food Movies

King's Taste Productions kingstaste at comcast.net
Tue Jun 20 21:03:43 PDT 2006


Here's the list of titles without commentary - always looking for more!
Christianna

FOOD MOVIES
"A Chef in Love"
“A Feast At Midnight”
"Babette's Feast"
“Chocolat”
"Dinner Rush"
"Eat,Drink,Man,Woman" and "Tortilla Soup"
"Fried Green Tomatoes."
“Full Moon Lunches” (Japan)
"La Grande Bouffe"
“Last Holiday”
"Like Water for Chocolate"
“Lunga Vita alla Signora!”(1987) Italy
"Mostly Martha"  
"Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
"Tampopo"/"Dandelion"/"The Noodle Shop"
"The Big Night"
"The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"
"The Chinese Feast"
"The God of Cookery"
“The Joy Luck Club” (Chinese/American)
“301/302” (Korea)
“Vatel”
"What's Cooking?"
"Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?"
“Woman on Top”


ONE OR TWO MEMORABLE FOOD SCENES:
"Age of Innocence"
"A Passage to India"  
"Eating Raoul"  
"Fellini's Satyricon" (1968) Italy/ France
“Girl with a Pearl Earring” (2003) Luxembourg/UK
Harry Potter movies
“I Love You to Death” (1990) USA
“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
"Last Tango in Paris"
“Motel Hell”
"My Father's Glory" and "My Mother's Castle"
"My Favorite Year"
"9-1/2 Weeks"
"Royal Flash" (1975) UK.  
“Ruggles of Red Gap” (1918, 1923, 1935)
"The Man Who Came To Dinner"
“Theatre of Blood”
”Tom Jones”
"Volere, Volare"


FOOD IN SCARCITY:
"A Boy and His Dog"	
"A Private Function" 
"King Rat"	
"Soylent Green"  
"Delicatessen"


HORROR/CANNIBALISM:
“Blood Feast” (1963) USA 
“Delicatessen” (1991) France. 
"Eating Raoul" (1982) USA 
"Fellini's Satyricon" (1968) Italy/ France.   
"Soylent Green" (1973) USA. 
"Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (1984) UK 
“Theater of Blood” (1973) UK.  
"Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" (1978) USA/ West Germany.  


DOCUMENTARY: 	
“Feast” (Yanomamo documentary)
“Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers”
"In Heaven There Is No Beer"
"J'ai Eté au Bal" ("I Went to the Dance")
“Yum, Yum, Yum”
“Cooking with Porn Stars” (2002) USA
“Cooking with Porn Stars for the Holidays” (2002) USA.

TV: 
"Arias and Pasta"
"Chef!" 
"Pie in the Sky"
"Tattinger's"
“The Spice of Life”
"Iron Chef"
"Jeeves and Wooster"
	
(I suppose we should amend this list to include some of the chef shows -
I really did like "Top Chef", and "Who will be the next Food TV Star"
did give a lot of insight into what it takes)


BOOKS:
"A Cook's Tour" - Tony Bourdain
"Kitchen Confidential" -Tony Bourdain
“The Bobby Gold Stories” (fiction) Anthony Bourdain
 “Baked to Death” - Dean James 
"Catering to Nobody” - Diane Mott Davidson
"Dying for Chocolate"  - Diane Mott Davidson
"Killer Pancake" - Diane Mott Davidson
"The Cereal Murders" - Diane Mott Davidson
"The Last Suppers"  - Diane Mott Davidson
"Death by Chocolate" 
“Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe” by Nan and Ivan Lyons
"The Butter Did It" by Phyllis Richman. 
"The Cat Who..." series- 
"Too Many Cooks" - Rex Stout 





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