Disney’s consumer products division has to easily double the size of its creative department. In accordance with the studio's aim to squeeze every possible dollar out of a film, it will release wines based on the movie Ratatouille: "For the first time, Disney will offer red and white wines to complement the film's backdrop, a five-star Parisian restaurant, as well as cheese platters, both from Costco Wholesale Corp." Wine blogger Dr. Vino speculates that the whites will be Chardonnays from the Burgundy region of France. Something tells me that Thomas Keller’s palate (in use as consultant for the film) will not go into these mass-market wines. I may breach my no-Disney movie policy for this one, but I still don’t...
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There have actually been a lot of terrific food-centric movies, (think "Tampopo", "Eat Drink, Man, Woman," "Big Night,"and the original "Mostly Martha"). but judging from the reviews that came out today, "Ratatouille" may just claim the title of the greatest food movie ever. Here's the New York Times' A. O. Scott, who is a passionate and fair-minded but tough critic. on the film: Written and directed by Brad Bird and displaying the usual meticulousness associated with the Pixar brand, “Ratatouille” is a nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film. It provides the kind of deep, transporting pleasure, at once simple and sophisticated, that movies...
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I'm resisting the urge to dub them "foovies." Variety's food blog The Knife is compiling a list of movies that revolve around food. A rather fitting topic, given the paper's subject matter. Flicks include Mystic Pizza, Sideways, Eat Drink Man Woman, Tampopo, Like Water for Chocolate, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, among many others. You can add your 2¢ on the site—doing so gives you a chance to win a gift certificate to Geisha House. Related: Serious Eats covered similar ground in January: Question of the Day: What's your dinner scene in a movie?...
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