The Year That Was: Movies
This probably should have been in the Media entry, but whatevs. The Year That Was continues.
Top: Wallace and Gromit as bakers in "A Matter of Loaf or Death." Above, clockwise from left: Amy Adams, Julie Powell, Meryl Streep, Julia Child.
Nominated for five Oscars, Ratatouille wins Best Animated Feature category.
A movie based on the Julie/Julia blog-book is announced, with noted foodie, author (Heartburn), and director (Sleepless in Seattle) Nora Ephron at the helm. Our own Ed Levine gets a part as an extra and has dinner with Ephron after his scene wraps. Martha Stewart claims the movie is about her!
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to be made into a movie.
New Wallace & Gromit movie, A Matter of Loaf and Death, is set in a bakery.
Keanu Reeves to star in a chef movie. Whoa or no? Most serious eaters say no.
More of The Year That Was
Pizza
Food as Other Stuff
TYTW on Serious Eats New York
Food in Space
Food Media
Food Shortages, Scares, and Rising Costs
Videos
Science
Starbucks
Bacon
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the julie/julia link is broken, but i remember reading an interview with martha stewart where she tells the journalist that she cooked her way through "mastering the art of french cooking" and that "a movie is being made about what i did."
cybercita at 10:20PM on 12/29/08
@cybercita: Are you referring to the link to the Detroit Free Press from Julie's site? Because that one seems to be borked. But I think my links here are good, no? (I just doublechecked them.)
Adam Kuban at 12:02AM on 12/30/08
I just found a working link to a reprint of that article in the Shreveport Times: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081105/LIVING01/811050301 "Stewart suggested that people approach 'Cooking School' the way she did with Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' (Alfred A. Knopf, $40). ¶ 'I cooked every single recipe; now they're making a movie about what I did,' says Stewart. 'Julie & Julia,' scheduled for an April 2009 release, is about a secretary who decides to restore her ambition by preparing all 524 recipes in the Child classic. ¶ 'Not only I did, many of my friends (did). We cooked every single thing in those two volumes of "Julia Child."'"
To be fair, I think Martha meant that they're making a movie about someone doing what I did. She (or the reporter) probably just talked faster (or wrote faster) than she was thinking.
Adam Kuban at 12:12AM on 12/30/08
We watched A Matter of Loaf and Death on Christmas day (along with most of the UK) and I highly recommend it!
Iheartcupcakes at 12:25PM on 12/30/08