- Babette's Feast
The Sundance Film Festival is all about food, drink and film—three favorite pastimes for many of us. Of course, cinema writ large is peppered with dining and drink, and I’m not talking about the overpriced popcorn buckets and sodas at the cineplex. Great food and libation had been a Hollywood co-star (and sometimes the star) for many years before Food TV cashed in on the food-porn craze. From Woman on Top and Mostly Martha to Chocolat and Tortilla Soup, filmmakers continue to satisfy our culinary appetites on the big screen and, often, at big tables.
The grand feast has been a favorite theme of hungry filmmakers since at least 1973, when La Grande Bouffe debuted starring the late Marcello Mastroianni. In the film, four success
Food and sensuality are happily entwined in films like Tampopo (1986), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) and Like Water for Chocolate (1992). In these movies, food is not only a way of expressing creativity and generosity, but love itself. Tampopo, the story of a young woman’s attempt to create the perfect bowl of Japanese noodles, is brimming with an appreciation of food that spills over frequently into the bedroom. The scene of lovers sensuously passing a raw egg from mouth to mouth is one of the hottest ever put to film, and who could forget the aphrodisiacal qualities of quail prepared with honey in Like Water for Chocolate?
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It’ll be interesting to discover what delicious pleasures this year’s Sundance Film Festival will bring. The chef’s coat is the new little black dress of the millennium, so I’d be surprised if there weren’t at least a few films that revolve around restaurants, chefs, cooking, kitchens, feasts and gluttony. If not, I hope I’ve given you some suggestions for some tasty DVD rentals. Plus, there are many other great food films I didn’t mention. We’d love to hear about your favorites.
Sexy Movie Scenes Involving Food