Nautilus? I thought you said noodle house

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Tampopo (1985) is a delightful movie and I thank all the gods and especially Inari that we made a full plate of sushi and a stockpot of ramen before we started watching, because otherwise we would have been very unhappy. People should recommend me food movies, because I was talking about them with rushthatspeaks afterward; I have seen Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) and Babette's Feast (1987), but that covers a very small spectrum of cuisines. Also, Tsutomu Yamazaki is awesome.

(And thus, apparently, I celebrated the fall equinox. Happy autumn!)

I have started to remember my dreams again. Last night was a sort of science fiction throwback: I didn't leave on a deep-space research project with my lover who was a doctor, because he had lied to me about being an alien; when their ships broke up in space, they rolled apart in sullen, almost maroon billows of fire, because of the atmospheric difference. I remember pushing my way off the ship, knowing there was too much bureaucracy in the passenger lists for him to find me in time. Seriously, I have no idea. The last thing I finished before bed was a completely realist novel set from 1935 to the present day.

I am not planning to watch Incubus (1965) when it screens tonight on TCM, but since it stars a pre-Trek William Shatner and it is entirely in Esperanto, I feel like people should know it's out there. I will instead be attending an oratorio about how the power of music makes you burn down Persepolis.

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[mrbelm.livejournal.com]

Other food movies: Big Night, God of Cookery, The Wedding Banquet, Ratatouille. I should have you over for dinner so we can watch God of Cookery.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

There is such a thing as a pre-Trek Shatner?! And he spoke Esperanto?

The world is being created by a generator of bizarre randomness.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Second on Big Night. Other good food movies include Bonjour Monsieur Shalomi, Chocolat (2000), Mostly Martha (US version is No Reservations, but it's not as good), Soul Kitchen (out in theaters now - limited release).

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Does Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me count as a food movie?
It's all that coffee and pie that does me in, but for me, there's nothing like it for fall movie-watching.

[zdenka]

Yay Alexander's Feast! I thought about going to that but decided I was too tired.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Happy Autumn to you as well!

Glad you enjoyed the film.

I have seen Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) and Babette's Feast (1987), but that covers a very small spectrum of cuisines.

There ought to be a movie about black pudding, but I've never heard of one, alas. In the unlikely event of my becoming ridiculously wealthy, I'll have to finance one. I wonder if there's a film about haggis? It seems as if somebody should have made one, so I'll have to go a'googling.

Interesting dream. Had he lied to you by pretending to be a human when in fact he was an alien, or had he claimed to be an alien whilst being, in fact, an ordinary specimen of Terran-derived H. Sapiens Sap.?

Enjoy the oratorio! But do try to not burn down Persepolis, please?

The Shatner film in Esperanto sounds... remarkably odd, like something one might drop into an alternate history story as a passing bit of local colour. I suppose I'll have to try and watch it, sometime.

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

There is a delicious scene in Dealers, the one with Paul McGann. It's not primarily a food movie, though.

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

Tampopo is definitely the best film Juzo Itami ever made, but his next film, A Taxing Woman, is very good as well. Yamazaki is in it, too, though he's not doing his dead-on John Wayne impersonation this time.

Hmm, food movies? Eating Raoul and Delicatessen? Er, maybe not.

[erzebet.livejournal.com]

Dis made me watch La grand bouffe one night without warning. :O

I'm not sure I can recommend it, but it was certainly something.

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

About cuisine, besides the classic scenes in Tom Jones and Chocolat: A Touch of Spice

About Alexander: Iskander, Khan Tengri