This past week saw the first events of the Fourth Annual
New York City Food Film Festival. On Thursday, I checked out the world-wide premiere of
Florent: Queen of the Meat Market, a new documentary from director
David Sigal. The film profiles famed NYC restauranteur
Florent Morellet, whose
eponymous restaurant in the meatpacking district transformed the neighborhood during its nearly 25 years of operation.
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[Photograph: Un Certain Goût de L’Amérique] If you find that French cinema has a certain je ne sais quoi, you might want to check out these upcoming foodcentric flicks. Un Certain Goût de L’Amérique: Daniel Boulud This biopic "traces...
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Tickets to NYC Advance Screening of 'Julie & Julia': john82099, lizzil, seisei, AlwaysMunchin, joannie, KitchenKore, BrooklynBrownie, masha339, sarahinnewyork, and Spatula Queen. Winners have been notified by email and also appear on our Contest Winners page. Thanks to all who entered....
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We have ten pairs of tickets to give away to a special New York City screening of Julie & Julia on August 3 (the movie comes out nationwide on August 7). Just tell us what cookbook has most inspired...
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For $20 at the Bell House tonight, you can see the new beer documentary, Beer Wars, then go to the booziest post-film Q&A ever, which includes a flight of four craft beers from: Dogfish, Brooklyn Brewery, Stone, and Smuttynose, paired...
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Sean Penn cupcake and Anne Hathaway cookie. Our theory was proven correct: a baked good rendering the face of Anne Hathaway isn't the most delicious thing you'll ever eat, but hey, it wasn't bad. Her face tastes exactly the...
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Restaurant closings don't seem like a big deal anymore, but on New Year's Eve in 2004, when iconic New York restaurant Le Cirque closed its doors, it very much was. The 78-minute documentary Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven...
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Remember David Fishman, the 12-year old kid from the Upper West Side who got written up in the New York Times for being an aspiring food critic? Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the story to be adapted as...
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"Scuttlebutt has it that the movie Julie and Julia, written and directed by Nora Ephron about the late cooking maven Julia Childs [sic] is in the can, finished and wonderful. (It is based on the book by Julie Powell.) And...
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This Friday, September 5, the New York United Film Festival will screen the film Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong. Showtime is 8 p.m. A $10 ticket gets you in to see Last Cup and...
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