your favorite food movie..

[mizzdee]

Post anything!! Just as long as it is food related..in any way..

[nolanani]

Now this is a subject I can get behind. I am a movie AND food freak and I love a good movie that includes eating, drinking, cooking, or even food shopping. Here is just a partial list.
Heartburn
It's Complicated
Out of Africa
Julie & Julia
Under the Tuscan Sun
Victor Victoria
Hannibal
To Catch a Thief
Shirley Valentine
Something's Gotta Give
Chocolat
One True Thing
The Devil Wears Prada
Barefoot in the Park
Sabrina (the original)
The Four Seasons
Waitress
Indiscreet
Two for the Road
Ratatouille
French Kiss
Le Divorce
Accidental Tourist
How to Murder Your Wife

[rabaja]

Mostly Martha is a really beautiful movie, with great food and lots of sexual chemistry. The remake is an embarrassment, watch the original, it's awesome.

[wandajune6]

Chocolat is one of my favorite movies of all time! Between this, Like Water for Chocolate, and Woman on Top, it's the perfect trio with magical realism, food, and awesome characters!

Now I want to watch a bunch of movies!

[Wisey]

I got a kick out of how much the very pregnant Marge liked to eat in Fargo.

[Bacardi1]

Oh Lord - I did too. All that Arby's + the scene at the buffet? And then she orders a Diet Coke in the bar - lol!!!

[sanjacinto]

For me it's American Psycho, hands down. I can actually pinpoint the moment when I first became interested in food and fine dining, and it's when I saw that movie. It's not actually *about* food, but so much of it takes place in trendy restaurants, with people eating food, and talking about the food, and so on, and so forth. It's a satire, yes, and I know it's supposed to be mocking the culinary culture it depicts, but still, it's all so classy and delicious.

Oh, also Pulp Fiction. That entire movie is mostly just people talking about what hamburgers are called, and arguing over the price of milkshakes.

[elenacampana]

"Woman on Top"

[Novelli]

What? No mention of Sammo Hung in Kung-Fu Chefs? He can completely debone an entire pig with one fell swoop of his cleaver!...a magic cleaver at that! LOL

It's good for a laugh.

[Michelly]

My List so far:

Big NIght
Chocolat
Julie and Julia
Like Water For Chocolat
Ratatouille
Bottleshock
Sideways
A Good Year

[bobbert]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding. "what do you mean you don't eat meat? oh, that's ok, i'll make you lamb" Great food scene.

[wolfe]

I now make a great version of the cake with a hole in it.

[laredo]

The diner scene in "Five Easy Pieces."

I have had to do a version of this myself on one or two occasions. :<)

[jhopp217]

Great call!

[freshlycured]

John Belushi walking the cafeteria line in Animal House. I think about "going Belushi" every time I eat Jello.

[2roadsdiverge]

"See if you can guess what I am now"

[INDIANRIVERFL]

Pardon the brain fart, but I just remembered a favorite seen every New Years Eve in Germany.

Classy matron is being served holiday dinner by the butler. As he announces each course for her approval, she replies," The same as always." The ending is hilarious and I won't spoil it for you. In English in black and white. Hopefully some European Hounds can come up with the actual title for me.

[elenacampana]

"Dinner for One"??

[wolfe]

Very good Elena. Irf does this look familiar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1v4BY...

[suzigirl]

Okay, everyone is mentioning all these fancy movies so forgive me. I love this goofy ass movie I saw super late one night I couldn't sleep. Simply Irresistable. One of my favorite songs plays in that movie. Once in a blue moon by Sidney Forrest
Also Fatso. Who doesn't love that movie?

[thymeoz]

Pieces of April -- a hilarious Thanksgiving movie.

[INDIANRIVERFL]

Days of Wine and Roses.

The fatal glass of beer with W. C. Fields

The Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin.

Thanks to way too many channels at my sister's house, the films Tampopo and Babette's Feast.

[melpy]

My sister and I were forced to watch Days of Wine and Roses as kids once. I don't think we even say through the whole thing but were never forgot the beginning and used to turn to eachother an yell out "peanut brittle? Peanut brittle?!!!" in that cackling voice the woman did for years afterwards. Not sure my sister who was quite little even knows what movie it's from honestly.

[Bacardi1]

I don't remember any mention of Peanut Brittle in "Days of Wind and Roses". In fact, I don't remember any mention of food at all.

[melpy]

At the beginning doesn't someone go to the office and bring a woman peanut brittle and she talks about how you are supposed to bring a woman chocolate and laughs that anyone would think to bring peanut brittle?

I don't know about food but plenty of drink, like the gateway drink brandy Alexander.

[2roadsdiverge]

Yeah, Jack Lemmon visits Lee Remick at her office in his attempt to get her to agree to a date. As she repeatedly denies his advances he keeps offering her and her co-workers peanut brittle from a box he brought.

[Bacardi1]

Oh goodness - you're talking about that 60-second blip about peanut brittle at the beginning of the movie??? No wonder I didn't remember it. I don't think they even showed the peanut brittle.

[melpy]

We only saw it once and I don't think we finished it but that scene was extremely memorable for two kids. We were probably 10 and 7.

[Christina D]

My first thought was Like Water for Chocolate and I agree with Julie & Julia. My favorite, though, has to be Ratatouille.

"He's ruining the soup!"

[Bacardi1]

Isn't "Ratatouille" adorable?!? My husband bought the dvd for me because I not only adore cooking & food, but also used to have pet rats & adored them as well. I loved the beautiful presentation (albeit cartoon) of the ratatouille the rat makes, & the food critic's (voice done by Peter O'Toole) expression & memories when he takes his first bite.

[Christina D]

Did you ever see "The Tudors"? Peter O'Toole played the Pope and every time he spoke, all I could hear was Anton Ego!

[khh1138]

I'm grateful to "Amelie" for teaching me that those delectable bits on the back of the chicken are called "oysters." No one but me seems to care about them, and that bit of the movie gave me such delight.

[Jotalandim]

I liked "Bella Martha", specially for the italian sous-chef character, but found the american remake "No Reservations" pretty bad.
And yeah, "Babette'sFeast" and "Tampopo" are all time favorites.
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ok, I liked "Ramen Girl" too :)

[RosePearl]

Chocolat. Watched it during matinee. 12 screen theater. Had to strain to hear it over some war movie next door, screams and explosions galore.

[dbrodbeck]

I quite liked The Ramen Girl.

[ctfoodguy]

Goodfellows ia a great food movies as are Julie & Julia and Big Night

[Bacardi1]

How could I have left out "Julie & Julia"?!? That was a terrific movie - Meryl Streep was so good as Julia Child.

[meagan]

Moonstruck with Cher and Nicholas Cage. I have seen that movie a dozen times just to look at the food.There is so much wonderful food in that movie! Aside from the bread bakery scenes, there is a great scene near the end. Olympia Dukakis cracks an egg over a piece of bread sizzling on the stove, then lays strips of red pepper on top. You can smell it cooking! ( well, I can anyway).

[Bacardi1]

Definitely!!! I also love that Dukakis with the egg/toast scene - particularly because it brings back fond memories of my mother, who used to enjoy the same thing for breakfast.

[jhopp217]

Good Call with Moonstruck. I also always felt a personal attachment to that film, because the Bakeri, Cammareri's was the bakery my parents went for all their bread in the 70's and early 80's. The two ladies behind the counter were actually in the movie.

[Crockett67]

For me it's the steak and egg scene. Don't know why it sticks but any time I make it I think of it.

[Bacardi1]

I don't have any favorite 100% "food" movies, but as for movies with favorite food "scenes":

"Tom Jones" (of course!)

"My Favorite Year" (when they're all at "Benjie's" mother's house for dinner & complementing her Filipino husband re: his stew, until he discloses the secret ingredient - parrot.)

"Goodfellas" (LOVE the scene where Paul Sorvino is slicing the garlic with a razor blade while in prison, as well as Ray Liotta's final family dinner (a pile of paper-thin veal cutlets fried up as an appetizer!))

"The Godfather" ("Fat Clemenza" showing "Michael" how to make sauce for a crowd - lol! - as well as "Fat Clemenza's" famous line after killing "Paulie" - "Leave the gun; take the cannoli".)

Re: the latter, Anthony Bourdain did a funny take on that in his "New Jersey" episode, where he was the one getting whacked, & Mario Batali did the gun/cannoli line.

I'm sure there are others that are just escaping me at the moment.

[Crockett67]

+1 On the Godfather, even mentioning it makes me crave spaghetti!

[wolfe]

Additional suggestions from my friends, Delicatessen and Sweeney Todd. What can you do if your friends are the Addams Family?

[latindancer]

Goodbye Columbus...

The buffet scene.

[MonMauler]

Definitely not a food movie, but a Legendary movie nonetheless. One of the greatest food-related scenes in cinema history:

Pulp Fiction:

Jules: Looks like me and Vincent caught you boys at breakfast. Sorry about that. Whatcha having?

Brett: Hamburgers

Jules: Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. What kind of hamburgers?

Brett: Ch-cheeseburgers.

Jules: No, no, no, where'd you get 'em, McDonald's? Wendy's? Jack in the Box? Where?

Brett: Big Kahuna Burger.

Jules: Big Kahuna Burger. That's that Hawaiian burger joint. I hear they got some tasty burgers. I ain't never had one myself. How are they?

Brett: They're good.

Jules: Mind if I try one of yours? This is yours, here, right?

[Picks up burger and takes a bite.]

Jules: Mmm-mmmm. That is a tasty burger. Vincent, ever have a Big Kahuna Burger?

[Vincent shakes his head.]

Jules: Wanna bite? They're real tasty.

Vincent: Ain't hungry.

Jules: Well, if you like burgers give 'em a try sometime. I can't usually get 'em myself because my girlfriend's a vegetarian, which pretty much makes me a vegetarian. But I do love the taste of a good burger. Mm-mm-mm. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?

Brett: No.

Jules: Tell 'em, Vincent.

Vincent: A Royale with cheese.

Jules: A Royale with cheese! You know why they call it that?

Brett: Because of the metric system?

Jules: Check out the big brain on Brett! You're a smart mf'er. That's right, the metric system. What's in this?

Brett: Sprite.

Jules: Sprite, good. You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down?

Brett: Go right ahead.

Jules: Ahhh, hit the spot.

[MonMauler]

And, of course, who could forget The Big Lebowski:

Walter: He lives in North Hollywood, on Radford, near the In-and-Out Burger.
Dude: The In-and-Out Burger is on Camrose.
Walter: Near the In-and-Out Burger.
Donny: Those are good burgers, Walter.
Walter: Shut the F up, Donny.
...
Donny: We'll be near the In-and-Out Burger.
Walter: Shut the F up, Donny. We'll, uh, brace the kid -- he'll be a pushover. We'll get that F'ing money, if he hasn't spent it already. Million F'ing clams. And yes, we'll be near the uh -- some burgers, some beers, a few laughs. Our F'ing troubles are over, Donny.

[Mutch2Do]

Classics!

[d8200]

That scene where they're driving in the Dude's car with the smashed out windshield silently eating In-N-Out burgers cracks me up every time.

[rayrayray]

Soylent Green

[wolfe]

Hurray rayrayray.

[emglow101]

Julia & Julia
Mid - August Lunch ( Italian / with subtitles)
Blood Into Wine ( documentary)

[Leonardo]

I Like Killing Flies.

[bobbert]

My all time favorite food movie.

[wolfe]

Renfield agrees with you.

[mbfant]

Best food scene in a masterpiece of a nonfood movie: Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti). Will say no more.
Also Tom Jones.
and
It's Complicated
Eat Drink Man Woman
Babette

I am probably the only person in the world who was irked by Big Night, despite the great actors. The brothers' Italian accents were really American, thus lost credibility. And, given their purism, that timpano and the seafoodless seafood risotto were unlikely to come out of the same kitchen.

[wewwew]

"Best food scene in a masterpiece of a nonfood movie: Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti). Will say no more."

Maybe a word or two is needed. I've searched CH and could find no other mention of Big Deal (if my search is off goodhealthgourmet, our resident film archivist can correct me) on any of the many movie food threads. My guess is that it is the oldest film mentioned and one of the few that has only one mention, most having multiple recs.
There is nothing like pasta from the fridge with co workers after a job well done.

[gaffk]

Agree with a lot of the faves so far. But want to add one in current release: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. It's not a movie about food, per se. But the reaction to/adjustment of senior Brits to food in India is hilarious and is intertwined throughout the movie. From the residents who embrace it to the ones who won't eat it, you can tell who will thrive and who will not by their reaction to the food.

[pikawicca]

Went to see this yesterday, based on your rec. Loved it! Thank you.

[gaffk]

It was so freaking funny I actually saw it again yesterday (friends wanted to see it and I wasn't going to veto the choice).

[Bacardi1]

You know what's funny about that, is that according to a book on the history of Indian food in the UK that I recently read, Indian food - curries in particular - are second in both popularity & volume of consumption only to India itself!!

[gaffk]

I believe that. But most of these elderly Brits were not the most adventurous--they were retiring in India because they could not afford retirement in the UK. (That was the best conceit of the movie--the hotel owner was outsourcing old age. There are a lot of countries, not just the UK, that don't like the elderly ;)

[tcamp]

Today's Special, streaming on Netflix.

[wolfe]

Bambi meets Godzilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RopV-A28P1o&feature=related
http://www.amazon.com/The-Original-Ro...

[Querencia]

Wolfe: LOL. Your name works too.

[Ottojr]

I loved the movie 'Tortilla Soup'. I get hungry when I watch it.

[SweetPhyl]

Big Night and Babette's Feast--both classics and both guaranteed to stimulate your appetite! Of course, the wino in me loves Sideways.

[Bkeats]

The Big Night
Tampopo
Le Grand Chef Kimchi Battle
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

[valerie]

We also liked Jiro Dreams of Sushi.

And one of my favorite movie scene(s) was in "Defending Your Life" with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep.

[Llamalicious]

Since I'm a 90's kid I would have to say Good Burger! I also love Chocolat :)

[khh1138]

Heh, my husband and I love to quote Good Burger to each other. "Welcome to GoodBurger, home of the GoodBurger" "You bring your own sauce? -- Doesn't everyone?" (especially the last one when we couldn't get a burger with thousand island dressing while we were living in Princeton instead of LA)

[wakondatch]

Dinner Rush
Pieces of April

[jhopp217]

Big Night is great and knowing Tucci's love of fine dining and wine makes it even more special, but strictly speaking about great movies, Julie & Julia is hands down the best food movie. The food is a supporting actor in this masterpiece and the final scene, is not only poignant, but hilarious.

Honorable mention goes to Chocolat & Babette's Feast

The best food scene in a movie that has nothing to do with food, would have to be 9 1/2 weeks. Although, I do have to say, the baby corn scene in Big was pretty great too.

[vday]

Definitely Chocolat!!

Such a beautiful sumptuous performance from all involved . . .

[sandylc]

Loved this one.

[truman]

+1 for Bottle Shock. (Netflix had it stream-able when I saw it last year.)
Chocolat - speaking of food (chocolate) porn...

And it's not a food movie, but what about the lunch scene in The Breakfast Club? Anyone remember Ally Sheedy's sandwich of Pixi Sticks and Cap'n Crunch?

[Mutch2Do]

OMG yes.....Pixi Sticks and Cap'n Crunch. I could feel myself getting cavities watching her make and then bite into that thing. GAH!

[njmarshall55]

Fatso (w/Dom DeLuise) and Big Night.

[grangie angie]

OH....forgot about Fatso....hysterical scene in the car with the Chinese take-out food!

[melpy]

You forgot! Love it all :)

[njmarshall55]

I still roar at his visit to the "Diet Doctor" and my fave line of the whole movie..."OK...everybody stop trottin'"

[Motosport]

"YOU ATE THE ...ONY!!"

[Motosport]

The Big Night is my all time favorite!!
Just saw Love's Kitchen. Great movie about food and love.
And of course Fatso!!

[beevod]

La Grande Bouffe.

[Motosport]

Ditto on Le Grande Bouffe!!

[sydthekyd]

Big Night.

[2roadsdiverge]

Such a great movie. The final wordless scene where one brother cooks a perfect omelet for another is so beautiful. (check it out on YouTube). I also love the scene where the chef refuses to accommodate a patrons request (don't want to spoil anything).

[grangie angie]

YES....the Big Night also.

[thirtyeyes]

Tampopo
2nd for...Eat Drink, Man Woman
Supersize Me
The Meaning of Life
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

[d8200]

I was browsing the On Demand free movies one night and caught a German flick called "Soul Kitchen." Great film. The main character owns a crappy diner but happens to be dining out with his girlfriend at a trendy, high-end restaurant when he sees the chef get fired (for publicly berating a customer who asked for his gazpacho to be served hot). The diner owner hires the hotshot chef to run his restaurant and they revamp the menu and decor into a small plate hipster hangout. Things started slowly, but they eventually become the new "it" place in town, then have to deal with all the positives and negatives that come with running a successful restaurant business.

There isn't a lot of food porn, but if you enjoy the restaurant industry and don't mind subtitles (or can speak German) it's a great movie.

[Mutch2Do]

I love the food scenes in Soul Food! Anyone remember that one scene in 9-to-5 where the ladies raid the fridge? Cracks me up every time I watch it.

[melpy]

I want the BBQ Dolly eats!

[DuchessNukem]

Eating Raoul

[Robin Joy]

What a top movie.

[sydthekyd]

Like Water for Chocolate.

[sydthekyd]

Babette's Feast.

[ferventfoodie]

ditto

[sandylc]

Yes.

[calliope_nh]

Ratatouille and Tortillia Soup

[pikawicca]

"Tom Jones." That one scene is total food porn (and hysterically funny).

[Bill Hunt]

Good one! Had not though of the "oyster scene" in decades.

Hunt

[Linda VH]

As soon as I saw the title I said - TOM JONES!!!

[zzDan]

Eat Drink Man Woman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Drin...

The story is good and the visuals are very good

[Bill Hunt]

Well, you stole my idea, but it was "wine-related," but essentially the same. I wondered WHERE that post would be best.

Since you started it, here are my two favorite "wine (food?) related" movies:

"Sideways"
"Bottle Shock"

Honorable mention: "This Earth is Mine."

Hunt

[Veggo]

Companion films "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring". Wine related, you would enjoy them, Bill.

[MRS]

Agree!

[grangie angie]

Veggo,Absolutely second this.....fantastic films....what a story!!!!!

Enough said!
BUT....you MUST watch "Jean de Florette" first,then "Manon of the Spring" second!

[Mutch2Do]

I second "Sideways". The clip where Paul Giamatti's character asks Thomas Church' "Are you chewing GUM?" when they're at the wine tasting.

I also enjoyed "A Good Year" with Russell Crowe.

I'll have to look into Bottle Shock and This Earth is Mine.

[Robin Joy]

Russell Crowe? Aren't most of his performances wine related?

[FoodChic]

Love, love, love "Bottle Shock!"