I just watched Ang Lee’s Eat Drink Man Woman for the first time. Immediately after the movie credits started rolling, I stopped the DVD and went back to the opening sequence during which the father, the chef, kills a fish by whipping a set of chopsticks into its maw, guts, scales and filets it, and [...]
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Don’t watch this movie when you’re hungry
Posted in Movies on October 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Mmm, 2-D food
Posted in Movies on August 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I saw the too cutesy but still enjoyable “Ponyo,” the new Miyazaki movie on Saturday. I don’t know what it is about food depicted in cartoons, but it makes my mouth water more so than real food in movies with actual people. I’m not a big ham person, but I wanted a slice of ham [...]