Charlatan

Hey...

I was just watching Chocolate and I started to think about how many films there are out there that revolve around food.

What is your favourite food film?

What is your favourite food scene?


I'd have to say that Big Night is my favourite food film and food scene... the finale of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and her Lover.

What about you?

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Amaras

Just reading the first sentence made me think of that scene. What was that line?
"Try the cock, it's quite delicious."
Spike Lee's "Do the right thing". All that talk about pizza makes my mouth water for small, family run takeout food.
I remember seeing a Chinese film about a master chef who was losing his sense of taste. Can't remember the name, but the film moved me.
Best scenes in the "Nutty Professor" with Eddie Murphy had to be around the dinner table.

Just off the top of my head.....

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Charlatan

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Amaras

That's it! Haven't seen that in like, what, ten years?

The sheer over the top sumptuousness of the meals reminded me of that scene from
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. You know which one I mean.

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ColonelSpecial

The scene from "The Joy Luck Club" where the white fiance comes to dinner at his Chinese-American fiancee's house. The table is full of great looking food. The mother serves the dinner and he proceeds to put salt on it without tasting it first and the room goes silent.

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jewels

Although I loved Babette's Feast and many other (mostly foreign) films about food with great scenes, my choice would have to be Once Upon A Time In Mexico. This scene about slow-roasted pork, specifically (towards the end of the clip):

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Leto

I've always enjoyed watching Tampopo, but it's been so long since I've seen it on TV. The story of a woman's quest to make a perfect bowl of ramen noodle soup. She's the owner of a Japanese truck stop diner. The main story is interspersed with vignets of the lives of the diner's customers.

I like the scene where a posh Tokyo Italian restaurant is trying to train its staff around the etiquette of eating spaghetti without slurping only to see some American tourists sit down and order spaghetti to eat it exactly in that manner.

The other vignette is of a mobster's dalliance in a hotel room with his mistress and a trolly of room service (live shrimp, boobs, eggs being passed back and forth.... you get the picture).








Links:

Tampopo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tampopo (1985)

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The German film Mostly Martha.

And I liked Ratatouille as well.

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Charlatan

I love tampopo!

I also loved Babette's Feast.

Good Choices.

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SabrinaFair

Like Water For Chocolate Hot.

I actually wrote a paper in college about the movie Chocolat, analyzing the cultural significance of food in the film. It was a class on "Food and Body Politics" in the anthropology department. As soon as I saw the thread title, I thought of that movie....funny that that's what you were talking about!

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snowy

YES.

Every time I see this scene I resolve to drive out to the authentic Mexican restaurant to get some carnitas tacos. Yum.

Like Water for Chocolate is also great, and Chocolat, of course. Both are also good books!

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skizziks

Tampopo, as mentioned, and Eat Drink Man Woman.