{"id":20361,"date":"2016-02-17T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=20361"},"modified":"2016-02-17T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:57:37","slug":"food-wine-movie-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/food-wine-movie-props\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Food Films Co-Star with Wine? The Oscar for Best Bottle Goes to …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Like<\/a>Wine is often a co-star with food in the movies, especially films about food:<\/p>\n

The Big Night (1996)<\/p>\n

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)\"Big<\/a><\/p>\n

Soul Food (1997)<\/p>\n

Chocolat (2000)<\/p>\n

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)<\/p>\n

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (1994)<\/p>\n

Tampopo (1985)<\/p>\n

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)<\/p>\n

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)<\/p>\n

Dinner Rush (2000)<\/p>\n

Rare Birds (2001).<\/p>\n

The three movies I m\"Tripost want to see right now in this genre are Chef, The Hundred Foot Journey and The Trip to Italy.<\/p>\n

The lush landscape of Italian wine country makes a bucolic backdrop for Kenneth Brannagh\u2019s musical remake of Much Ado About Nothing (1993).<\/p>\n

Although the setting was supposedly Tuscan, in fact the movie was shot in Sicily\u2014presumably the real Tuscan vineyards were overrun with too many tourists.<\/p>\n

In Babette\u2019s Feast, which won the 1987 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, wine is almost as important as the food. \"Babette's<\/p>\n

Babette, whose husband and children have been killed in the war of 1871, flees Paris to northern Denmark, where she cooks and cleans for two elderly sisters who run an austere religious community.<\/p>\n

Fifteen years later, when she wins a lottery, she doesn\u2019t use the money to return home; instead she spends it preparing a magnificent meal for the entire community.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s later revealed that she was the chef at renowned Caf\u00e9 Anglais in Paris.<\/p>\n

She ships in caviar, live turtle, quail and other exotic ingredients from Paris\u2014as well as several bottles of the 1860 Veuve Clicquot champagne and the 1846 Clos Vougeot from Burgundy, among others. She also gives a local boy a crash course on how to be a sommelier course and serve fine wine.<\/p>\n

The extravagant food and wine are made more sumptuous not just because they are infused with Babette\u2019s selflessness, but also because of the contrast with the bleak Northern landscape and its sensory-deprived inhabitants.<\/p>\n

As they eat and drink, the community mem\"Babettesbers\u2019 icy exteriors melt, and their long-suppressed emotions and senses re-awaken. They are reborn but not through their religion.<\/p>\n

Twelve sit at the table\u2014Babbette doesn\u2019t join them. Biblical overtones here.<\/p>\n

Bickering neighbours make amends, a pessimist starts to see the good in others, and a visiting Swedish general recalls his carefree days in Paris. Later, they dance in a circle in the moonlight.<\/p>\n

When the Oscars air this year, wine lovers will no doubt be watching with a good glass of wine in hand.<\/p>\n

But they may not remember who actually won the awards because they\u2019ll be preoccupied with the splashy after-show parties\u2014and which wines the stars will be drinking.<\/p>\n

Read more about\u00a0wine and movies<\/strong><\/a> …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wine is often a co-star with food in the movies, especially films about food: The Big Night (1996) Like Water for Chocolate (1992) Soul Food (1997) Chocolat (2000) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (1994) Tampopo (1985) Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) Dinner Rush (2000) Rare Birds (2001). The three movies I most want to see right now in this genre are Chef, The Hundred Foot Journey and The Trip to Italy. The lush landscape of Italian wine country makes a bucolic backdrop for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1343,338,326,8,1108,348,1111,1342,15,337,1340,1341,13,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academy-awards","category-academy-awards-wine","category-champagne-wine-tasting-club","category-events","category-france-wine-wine-region","category-french-wine","category-italian-wine-wine-region","category-movie-wines","category-movies-wine-food","category-oscar-wine","category-oscars","category-oscars-wine","category-serving-wine","category-sommelier-course"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20448,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions\/20448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}