DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Eat Me: The 10 Greatest Movies About Eating

  • bookishboy · 1 year ago
    Please consider adding "301/302" to the list.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112257/

    This could easily bump Fried Green Tomatoes or Ratatouille. Two women live in different apartments on the same floor of a residential building. One's a self-taught chef who can -and will- cook anything. The other's an anorexic who can barely keep down any sort of solid nutrition. They're both dysfunctional and let's just say that maybe they're not the most well-matched pair to become best friends. The movie is dark, and subtly humorous. The scene in the film has one of the most underplayed (but hilarious) moments I've ever seen in a movie, communicated with nothing more than a look from one of the actresses.

    Watch it, especially if you enjoy dark comedies.
  • Tim · 1 year ago
    I guess if I could to add my two cents, I'd add the movie "Eat Drink Man Woman" by Ang Lee (before he did Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility, and Hulk). It certainly got me hungry for Taiwanese food. ^_^

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111797/

    As for 301/302, I'd have to admit the movie definitely put eating in a new light for me (especially the facial close ups of people chewing or of that surprise ending). However, I don't know if anybody outside of Korea really saw it. For me, I only saw it by chance since I was working at the media library while I was in college.

    Was 301/302 really a dark comedy? I always assumed it was more of a social commentary on our habits of eating.
  • bookishboy · 1 year ago
    I didn't think 301/302 was a comedy until the very last scene, when the one woman looks across the table and seems to self-consciously ask (with only the expression on her face), "Well? It's not too salty, I hope?".
  • Eric Melin · 1 year ago
    How about Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" (1989)?
    It's the most exotic film ever about food, torture, and cannibalism. Plus Helen Mirren (The Queen), Ciarin Hinds (Munich), Tim Roth, and Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) star!
  • The Comedian · 1 year ago
    What about that scene from Hook? There is some serious celebrating of food by those kids. Imagined chicken grease slobbers smeared my glasses only to be covered by colorful icing-pudding stuff until coconut milk washed it all down.

    Gawd i love that scene.
  • The Comedian · 1 year ago
    And I agree with Soylent Green. That choice made me laugh out loud and then sad that my neighbors were of dwindling supply.

    OH! What about Sweeney Todd? Mmmm, delicious meat pies!