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In honor of the upcoming Oscars, Cooksden has created its own Culinary Cinema awards. Categories include "Best On-Screen Feast," "Sexiest Food Movie," "Best Food Documentary," "Best Restaurant Industry Movie," "Funniest Food Movie," "Most Disturbing Food Movie," and "Best Leading Actor/Actress in a Food Movie." Nominees for the big award, "Best Food Movie," include Big Night, Chocolat, Eat Drink Man Woman, La Graine et le Mulet, Tampopo, Babette's Feast, Ratatouille, and The Scent of Green Papaya. Check out the site to see the results.
Personally, I think Like Water for Chocolate - the movie that had thousands of home cooks attempting to make quail in rose petal sauce - should have been in the running. What's your favorite food flick?
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2-12-2009 @9:23AM Harlan said... Ratatouille, not even close. Brilliant. Tampopo is quite good, though. Most films with food aren't even as compelling as a good episode of Iron Chef America, unfortunately. It's really hard to translate flavor to film, and most of the time, the result is boring.
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2-12-2009 @9:35AM Rob O. said... "Ratatouille" was good, but "Chocolat" was great! And I really enjoyed "Super Size Me."
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2-12-2009 @11:29AM Bernie B said... Love Tampopo!
Let's not leave out God of Cookery for Comedy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116426/
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2-12-2009 @1:06PM pbergen said... Mostly Martha.
I have not seen the American remake but the German film was the best restaurant/cook movie I have ever seen. What I really liked about it was the straightforward presentation of the food prep without artificially explaining everything. I did not know what she was doing some of the time, and that made the film better for me. (And the food looked great too!)
It also shows the best way to seduce a recalcitrant chef.
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2-12-2009 @1:18PM totoro said... Definitely Tampopo.
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2-12-2009 @2:07PM Chris Furniss said... Babette's Feast. I have loved that movie since childhood, and it's one of the things that inspired me to learn how to cook.
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2-12-2009 @7:25PM Andrew R said... Most disturbing?
"The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and her Lover" no contest.
The film is amazing and horrifying and all about food! The van ride is what secures the win.
Has anyone else seen the movie? I'd love to hear what others think!
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2-13-2009 @4:49AM Aidan Brooks said... Others may be worthy contenders, but Tampopo has always been my favourite. It's a work that sublimely represents that condition of artistic genius bordering on insanity.
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2-14-2009 @8:08PM Indiefab said... Crap list. Big Night didn't win anything. Totally wrong.
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