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List Of Films About Food And Drink
This is a list of films about food and drink. Films about food and drink Documentary films * ''All in This Tea'' * ''American Beer'' * '' Bananas!*'' * '' Barolo Boys'' * '' Beer Wars'' * '' Bill W.'' * '' The Birth of Saké'' * ''A Bite of China'' * '' Black Coffee'' * '' Black Gold'' * ''Blood into Wine'' * '' The Cheese Mites'' * '' Chef Thémis, cuisinier sans frontières'' * '' Chez Schwartz'' * '' Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven'' * '' The Delicacy'' * '' Dive!'' * ''Fat Head'' * '' Fed Up'' * '' Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness'' * '' Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9'' * ''First We Eat'' * ''The Five Obstructions'' * ''Food - Weapon of Conquest'' * '' Food, Inc.'' * ''The Fruit Hunters'' * ''Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers'' * '' Gather'' * ''Global Steak'' * '' Gutbusters'' * ''I Like Killing Flies'' * ''Ingredients'' * '' Jiro Dreams of Sushi'' * ''Kings of Pastry'' * '' Knife Skills'' * '' Know Your Mushrooms'' * '' A Matter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All In This Tea
''All in This Tea'' is a 2007 documentary film co-directed by Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht, about Chinese tea. It follows the American tea connoisseur David Lee Hoffman as he travels to remote tea-growing areas of China. Hoffman attempts to interest Chinese tea growers and distributors in fair trade issues, and explores the importance of terroir and organic growing methods in both the quality and future sustainability of the Chinese tea market. The film premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2007. Production The documentary was filmed with a hand-held camera on digital video and is 70 minutes in length. Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 83%, based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. As well as entertainment ratings, All in This Tea has been subject to some praises of those in the industry as well as those in the academic world. For example, Kim Stanton, of the University of North Texas Libraries, writing for the Educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fat Head
''Fat Head'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by and starring comedian and health writer Tom Naughton. The film seeks to refute both the documentary ''Super Size Me'' and the lipid hypothesis, a theory of nutrition started in the early 1950s in the United States by Ancel Keys and promoted in much of the Western world. Production Naughton first saw ''Super Size Me'' as part of his research into a comedy piece he was working on about prejudice against fat people, saying, "I watched ''Super Size Me'' as part of my research. But the premise and the rather large gaps in logic annoyed me so much, I decided I needed to create a reply. I know some other filmmakers went on McDiets and documented how they lost weight, but as far as I could tell, they weren't funny. If it's true what Mencken said, that the cure for contempt is counter-contempt, then the cure for a funny documentary that's full of bologna is a funny documentary that isn't." In 2013, Naughton released a director's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Like Killing Flies
''I Like Killing Flies'' is a 2004 documentary film produced, directed, filmed, and edited by Matt Mahurin. It documents Shopsins restaurant in New York City's Greenwich Village and its owner and head cook, Kenny Shopsin. In 2002 and 2003, Mahurin followed Shopsin in his final year at the location he ran for over 30 years. Throughout the film, Shopsin offers what he calls "half-baked" philosophy, peppered with profanities. In the first half, Shopsin opens his eatery for the day and talks about his kitchen, his business, his employees, and his customers. We meet the regulars and friends who eat some of the 900 eclectic dishes he prepares, and we learn the rules of the restaurant: all customers must eat, parties of four or more are unwelcome, and anyone who irritates the owner will be swiftly shown the door. Shopsin's wife and children, all of whom work at the restaurant, weigh in on what it's like to work for this eccentric and occasionally hot-tempered man. In the film's secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gutbusters (film)
Gutbusters is a 2002 Discovery Channel documentary following the efforts of three competitive eaters seeking to gain entry into the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Background The documentary follows three members of the competitive eating community. The program documents the training and one stop is at J&R’s Steakhouse in Long Island. The restaurant gives eaters one hour to eat a 76 ounce steak and one portion of a side order: the meal for free if they can accomplish the task. The show also follows eaters in other states who compete eating crawfish, hot dogs and pancakes. The documentary also introduces International Federation of Competitive Eating founders Richard and George Shea and details their efforts to establish eating as a sport. A second installment of ''Gutbusters'', about the IFOCE in Alaska, also ran on Discovery Channel. The show featured: “ Hungry” Charles Hardy, Dale Boone and “ Crazy Legs” Conti. The documentary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Steak
''Global Steak: Demain nos enfants mangeront des criquets'' () is a 2010 French documentary television film directed by Anthony Orliange. Synopsis The film explores the problem of meat consumption by humans and suggests that the increasing demand of meat in the world could lead to a catastrophe. Entomophagy section * Entomologist Séverin Tchibozo suggests the larvae of the rhinoceros beetle contain much protein (40%), more than chicken (20%) and beef (approximately 18%) and that larvae could become a protein source for a large umanpopulation. *Professor Arnold van Huis at Wageningen University in Netherlands says that locust can produce 1 kg protein from 2 kg fodder compared to a cow needing 10 kg fodder to produce the same amount protein. Other benefits are that locust does not produce greenhouse gases and does not need antibiotics. *Marian Peters of Bugs Organic Food talks of people's attitudes towards eating insects and suggests separating mealworms fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gather (film)
''Gather'' is a documentary film about Native American efforts for food sovereignty, directed by Sanjay Rawal and released in 2020. The film follows efforts by various people and groups to reclaim ancestral foodways. It was positively reviewed by critics, and named a Critic's Pick by ''The New York Times'' in September 2020. Synopsis ''Gather'' follows attempts by Native Americans to reclaim the foodways of their ancestors. The documentary opens with a quote from Crazy Horse: Chef Nephi Craig works to start Café Gozhóó, a restaurant that will serve traditional Apache food and train people recovering from addiction to cook it. Fred DuBray and his daughter Elsie DuBray work with bison in the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation, while the Ancestral Guard made up of Sammy Gensaw III and other Yurok men in Northern California practice and teach their tribe's traditional practices for fishing and preparing salmon on the Klamath River. Twila Cassadore studies and shares about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers
''Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers'' is a 1980 documentary film about garlic directed by Les Blank. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the United States’ National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The Academy Film Archive preserved ''Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers'' in 1999. It was filmed at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, as well as in other locations in Northern California. Its official premiere was at the 1980 Berlin Film Festival. The director recommends that, when the film is shown, a toaster oven containing several heads of garlic be turned on in the rear of the theater, unbeknownst to the audience, with the intended result that approximately halfway through the showing the entire theater will be filled with the smell of garlic. In Blank's 1982 film ''Burden of Dreams'', a documentary chronicling the filming of ''Fitzcarraldo'', director Werner Herzog and other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fruit Hunters
''The Fruit Hunters'' is a 2012 feature documentary film about exotic fruit cultivators and preservationists. It is directed by Yung Chang and co-written by Chang and Mark Slutsky, and inspired by Adam Leith Gollner's 2008 book of the same name. In addition to documentary sequences, the film also uses CGI animation, models and performers to stage real and imagined moments in the history of fruit. Film subjects Subjects in the film include actor Bill Pullman, who was not featured in Gollner's book. The filmmakers became aware of his interest in fruit thanks to a 2009 ''New York Times'' profile. The film follows Pullman's efforts to develop a communal orchard near his Hollywood Hills residence. Two staff members of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden are shown exploring jungles in Asia and South America in search of plants to graft and preserve. ''The Fruit Hunters'' also features a Honduran scientist trying to find an alternative to the Cavendish banana, an Italian cultivator wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food - Weapon Of Conquest
''Food - Weapon of Conquest'' is a 22-minute 1941 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime ''Canada Carries On'' series. The film was directed and produced by Stuart Legg. ''Food - Weapon of Conquest'' shows the food shortage in Nazi-occupied countries in the Second World War, contrasted with the Allied response to the global food crisis. The film's French version title is ''Une armée marche sur son estomac''. Synopsis During the Second World War, food has become a weapon of war, validating Napoleon's adage that "An army moves on its stomach." In Allied nations such as the United States and Canada, vast reserves of farmland have to be harnessed to meet the needs of the war effort. While rationing is still in place in Canada for civilians, the food produced in the Prairies have been made available to the overseas military forces. In other Allied nations, food scarcity is a daily misery. The United Kingdom faces a serious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Five Obstructions
''The Five Obstructions'' is a 2003 Danish documentary film directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth. The film is conceived as a documentary, but incorporates lengthy sections of experimental films produced by the filmmakers. The premise is that von Trier has created a challenge for his friend and mentor, Jørgen Leth, another renowned filmmaker. Lars von Trier's favorite film is Leth's ''The Perfect Human'', and von Trier gives Leth the task of remaking ''The Perfect Human'' five times, each time with a different "obstruction" (or obstacle) imposed by von Trier. It has been said that "Both this film and ''Dogville'' show a more mature von Trier, one who is more aware of and accountable to the full implications of the torture, suffering and victimization he has employed in his films, especially in exploring how easily those who victimize others in the name of righteousness become victims ftheir own self-righteousness." The obstructions #Leth must remake the film in Cuba, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First We Eat
''First We Eat'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Suzanne Crocker and released in 2020. The film documents the attempts of Crocker and her family, after a landslide temporarily blocked highway access to their hometown of Dawson City, Yukon, to spend a full year exclusively consuming food that had been hunted, fished, gathered, grown or raised locally, while carefully considering the environmental and social impacts of modern commercial transport of food. The documentary film premiered on May 28, 2020 on Hot Docs. Production Crocker first announced the project in 2017. The film's production website also incorporates an ongoing collaborative project on food security, including guides to foraging for edible wild plants, a seed guide to fruits and vegetables that grow well in Yukon, and a recipe guide to dishes that can be cooked with local ingredients available in the Dawson City area. Release The film premiered as part of the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Document ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
