Food-related films
Sep 25 2008
K so we're doing a series of film nights in Ipswich, and as a tie-in for world food day (I know, I know), it was suggested that we do a food-related film/documentary this month. Does anyone have some good suggestions?
Sep 25 2008
#2
Try the documentary "Our Daily Bread".
Sep 25 2008
#3
well, I've always liked The Cook, The Thief, his Wife and her Lover for a nice arty attack on Thatcherist behaviour. Then there is the pop-doc Super Size Me - bit simplistic. Not sure if this is what you are looking for xx
Sep 25 2008
#4
This is a fairly well known documentary film (by the guy who Good Night and Good Luck was about, Edward Morrow), about migrant agricultural workers in the US. I haven't seen it, but it's supposed to have had quite an impact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_of_Shame
EDIT: This - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217577/ - might update it, it's new this year. The Immokalee workers' struggle has been very inspiring. You could probably go back to Grapes of Wrath, and have a hundred years of barely changing exploitation in the fields of the Southern US.
There's also Nick Broomfield's film Ghosts, about the Morcambe Bay cockle pickers who were drowned a couple of years ago. It's not very good though, to be honest.
Sep 25 2008
#5
Sep 25 2008
#6
posi wrote:
There's also Nick Broomfield's film Ghosts, about the Morcambe Bay cockle pickers who were drowned a couple of years ago. It's not very good though, to be honest.
You must be kidding - that film is amazing and Nick Broomfield's best by a mile.
For dark comedy value, the Hong Kong film Dumplings is food for thought.
Sep 25 2008
#7
Sep 25 2008
#8
... Ghosts is nowhere near Broomfield's best (it's a feature thing by the way, not a documentary, in case people only know Broomfield from his docs).
His best, imho, is Behind the Rent Strike. Have you seen that? The assembly scene! Amazing. Here it is... http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=behind+the+rent+strike&emb=0&aq=f# - I think it was his college film or something.
EDIT: tho tbf alot of people thought Ghosts was really good, so it might be a good pick...
Sep 25 2008
#9
Meat and You: partners in freedom
When i grow up, I'm going to Bovine University
Sep 25 2008
#10
Steggsie wrote:
For dark comedy value, the Hong Kong film Dumplings is food for thought.
Only with a warning at the beginning. sheesh, that film had me cringing. Or try the Untold Story, about the case of a restaurant worker who started selling special 'pork' buns
Sep 25 2008
#11
dee wrote:
Steggsie wrote:
For dark comedy value, the Hong Kong film Dumplings is food for thought.
Only with a warning at the beginning. sheesh, that film had me cringing. Or try the Untold Story, about the case of a restaurant worker who started selling special 'pork' buns
Dumplings was great, especially the riding. 
Sep 25 2008
#12
fucking double post
Sep 26 2008
#13
delicatessen might work if people have got sense of humour, maybe chocolat also
Sep 26 2008
#14
A fab film with the politics in the history and implicit in the personal relationships is Babette's Feast. It's Danish IIRC and is about a cook who is clearly a refugee from the suppression of the Paris Commune and a repressed isolated coastal community in denmark (though I think the book it came from was originally Norway)
Regards,
Martin
it sounds like it could be a bit fair-trade liberal, but i got a random email about 'Food on Earth' a while back.