Feast: A Look at Food in Film
source: http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/feast-20091124
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The latest video essay from Matt Zoller Seitz tracks the use of food in film as we head into Thanksgiving:
In Big Night, Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's 1996 drama about two chef brothers cooking a one-of-a-kind dinner at their struggling Italian restaurant, there's a moment where the siblings unveil their prize dish, timpano, a mix of meat, cheese, pasta, tomato sauce, and hardboiled eggs served inside a drum-shaped crust. The unveiling begins with an overhead shot of the brothers carefully lifting the chafing dish to reveal the timpano; at the sight of that buttery crust, the audience collectively exhaled in pleasure and envy—a noise that was half sigh, half moan. We all wanted to be in that movie, in that restaurant, sitting at the brothers' table as honored guests, knife and fork at the ready. Dear Lord, that food looked good.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/feast-20091124
In Big Night, Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's 1996 drama about two chef brothers cooking a one-of-a-kind dinner at their struggling Italian restaurant, there's a moment where the siblings unveil their prize dish, timpano, a mix of meat, cheese, pasta, tomato sauce, and hardboiled eggs served inside a drum-shaped crust. The unveiling begins with an overhead shot of the brothers carefully lifting the chafing dish to reveal the timpano; at the sight of that buttery crust, the audience collectively exhaled in pleasure and envy—a noise that was half sigh, half moan. We all wanted to be in that movie, in that restaurant, sitting at the brothers' table as honored guests, knife and fork at the ready. Dear Lord, that food looked good.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/feast-20091124
