The end of the week is near, and I have a slow moment. Time for another top 10 movie list.
Each film need not be about cooks or cooking per se. Food simply must be integral to the central theme, and make you hungry watching it.
1. Babette’s Feast (also one of my favorite religious movies)
2. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
3. Like Water for Chocolate
4. Mostly Martha
5. Big Night
6. Chocolat
7. Waitress
8. Fried Green Tomatoes
9. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
10. Tortilla Soup
Haven’t seen Tampopo, God of Cookery, or Kitchen Stories, so they’re not on the list.
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August 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm
edsvoice
Don’t forget:
Big Fat Greek Wedding
Julie & Julia
Ratatouille
Food Inc.
August 19, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Not A Native
“Eating Raoul”
“Super Size Me”
“Into the Wild”
“Silence of the Lambs”
August 19, 2011 at 2:41 pm
kristabel
Ha! I was going to add Silence of the Lambs as well. Also 9 1/2 Weeks, Soul Food, Diner and The Wedding Banquet.
August 19, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Sally
Well, this is just a DVD bonus track with a movie, but it *will* make you hungry, and yes, I’ve cooked this!
August 19, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Eric Kirk
Wasn’t Wedding Banquet done by Ahn Lee as well as Eat, Drink? Excellent movie, but I don’t remember much about the food.
NAN – did Eating Raoul and Silence of the Lambs make you hungry? Okay, that’s the last time I piss you off!
August 19, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Jim
I’d like to add Last Holiday to the list. It is a Queen Latifah movie that centers on her love of cooking, and makes my mouth water every time I see her make gourmet dishes in the film.
August 19, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Ernie's Place
It’s way before anybody’s time on this blog, but “Tom Jones” had some great food scenes. I’ve never seen chicken look more appetizing.
August 19, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Bruce Ross
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover.
August 19, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Dave Kirby
I nominate Cold Mountain. A really depressing southern cook book .
August 19, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Sally
Well, I guess the Donner Party would be the most gross… but NAN’s “Silence of the Lambs” gave me the biggest laugh!
August 19, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Ben Schill
Bruce gets my vote and Tampopo is great, but my favorite is Moonstruck. Olympia Dukakis making eggs in a hole with peppers. I made the exactly the same for years…. manicotti… the bakery ovens… I love Italian food.
August 19, 2011 at 8:41 pm
ED Denson
See Tampopo. You’ll be glad you did. It’s a fave out here on the 10 Springs Ranch.
August 19, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Unk John
We can’t leave out “Who’s Killing the Great Chefs of Europe.” I could watch the whole movie just for one of the greatest lines in movie history. One chef was told he was a suspect in the murder of another chef from Switzerland, who was found dead in a hot oven. I will paraphrase his reply as, “That’s preposterous! Only a rank amateur would bake anything Swiss in a 350 oven.”
August 20, 2011 at 6:39 am
Erasmus
“Soylent Green” is obviously the food film with the most visceral effect on the viewer.
August 20, 2011 at 8:47 am
Anonymous
Wasn’t the airplane crash in the Andes that became the movie “Alive”?
How could you bizarre-o’s forget this one?
August 20, 2011 at 8:48 am
Anonymous
And….
Soylent Green
August 20, 2011 at 9:02 am
moviedad
For god’s sake man, get counseling. What’s next, “movies where the stars wear black shoes?”
Ha! Keep up the good work, Sir; the world needs your weirdness.
August 20, 2011 at 9:28 am
Jack Durham
“Harold and Kumar go to White Castle” is about a quest for food, for what it’s worth. Food plays an important role in “Goodfellas.”
August 20, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Eric Kirk
Oh, yeah, the Goodfellas scene where they’re slicing the garlic up into paper thin sheets to dissolved into the sauce definitely caught my imagination. It also figured prominently at moments in the Godfather movies. (“Leave the gun. Grab the cannolies.”).
It was also prominent in The Contender, which each political player having food habits which symbolized his/her approach to power, and the President, played by Jeff Bridges, always ordering obscure dishes to see if he could catch the kitchen lacking in some ingredient. It is a bit pedantic and somber, but it is one of the better films about politics.
August 20, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Ettersburg local
OMG!! nobody even mentioned a gem of a movie…..
IF you haven’t seen “What’s Cooking” you’ve totally missed one great food movie……
Should be near the top of the top 10. Don’t miss it….
August 21, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Anonymous
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