Thanks for the Movies
Ah, holidays! A time for overinflated expectations and bad behavior... have you noticed that Thanksgiving movies inevitably steer clear of the food and focus, instead, on dysfunctional, stressed out people? The Ice Storm, Home For the Holidays, The Daytrippers, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Pieces of April, What's Cooking, Hannah & Her Sisters, Avalon, The Myth of Fingerprints...
Good for character development, great for driving the storyline, bad for digestion.
Choose non-Thanksgiving food movies... Tampopo, Mostly Martha, Like Water for Chocolate, Babette's Feast, Chocolat, Eat Drink Man Woman, Big Night or even Amélie (with her devilish creme brulee passion)... for films that do a better job of depicting the food as big, bold, dramatic & almost a character unto itself. Bon Appétit!
1 Comments:
I stumbled across your blog yesterday; it's nice to find a few other people on the web who understand how to put a sentence together (your subject matter is also a refreshing break from the moody adolescent public diary). As far as Thanksgiving films, I suggest The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover: it's the perfect compromise of explosive human relations AND fine cuisine. Cheers.
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