Guest guest Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 > > Yes, Netflix is one of the greatest business ideas of this > century! I love it...so, while we're on the subject, what are > everyone's favorite movies with food/cooking/native lifestyle > themes? " Eat Drink Man Woman " , " Tampopo " , and " Smoke Signals " . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 >what are everyone's favorite movies with food/cooking/native lifestyle themes? Off the top of my head: > > Babette's Feast > Like Water for Chocolate > Mostly Martha > > I second those! I REALLY liked " mostly Martha " because it deals with the theme of " food obsession " vs. " enjoying food " . Also it has some really practical ideas about cooking (like --- wearing an apron!). Of course the fact it was Germanic might have been influential ... you'd never guess it from my name but I have some German blood in me ... -- Heidi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2003 Report Share Posted December 10, 2003 > " Eat Drink Man Woman " , " Tampopo " , and " Smoke Signals " . > > Ah, Tampopo! good one. Other two go on the list ... -- Heidi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Speaking of movies we saw Fast Runner the other night. Has anyone seen it? It's about a group of Inuits. BTW more than a few of them looked pretty bad (narrow faces, rotten teeth etc..) I wonder what they're eating. The film did show them eating (cooked and raw meats, seal, fish etc..) Elainie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 It is too bad. I guess all the fat soluble nutrients they do get doesn't make up for the refined food they're ingesting. Elainie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 These 3 are on their way to me from Netflix. First 2 are a trilogy. Can't find 3rd there Koyaanisqatsi Koyaanisqatsi, which marks Godfrey Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first installment of the Qatsi trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning " life out of balance. " Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. Philip Glass composed the film's musical score Powaqqatsi Where Koyaanisqatsi dealt with the imbalance between nature and modern society, Powaqqatsi, the second installment in director Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy, is a celebration of the human-scale endeavor -- the craftsmanship, spiritual worship, labor and creativity -- that defines a particular culture. It's a celebration of rareness but also an observation of how these societies move to a universal drumbeat. The Milestone Collection: People of the Wind Every year, the Bakhtiari scales the massive Zagros Mountains to feed their livestock in high summer pastures. This film documents one of the most amazing feats of human endurance and bravery, and their struggle to survive the journey Anyone seen Nanook of the North made in 1922? Wanita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Wanita- >These 3 are on their way to me from Netflix. First 2 are a trilogy. Can't >find 3rd there http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?trkid=73 & movieid=60024987 I thought the third one sucked something awful, but I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority on that one. >Anyone seen Nanook of the North made in 1922? No, but I believe it's out on a Criterion DVD. Netflix isn't terrific about stocking Criterion releases, but they have Nanook. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Elainie- I saw it when it opened here in NYC, and I loved it, but I noticed the same thing -- a lot of the modern-day Inuit playing Inuits of yore looked to be in terrible shape, not at all like the characters they were playing should've looked. I'm sure today's Inuits are, by and large, eating a lot of the worst modern agribusiness has to offer. >Speaking of movies we saw Fast Runner the other night. Has anyone seen it? >It's about a group of Inuits. BTW more than a few of them looked pretty bad >(narrow faces, rotten teeth etc..) I wonder what they're eating. The film >did show >them eating (cooked and raw meats, seal, fish etc..) - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 Elainie wrote -- Speaking of movies we saw Fast Runner the other night. Has anyone seen it? It's about a group of Inuits. BTW more than a few of them looked pretty bad (narrow faces, rotten teeth etc..) I wonder what they're eating. The film did show them eating (cooked and raw meats, seal, fish etc..) ~~~ We saw it when it first came out... mesmerising stuff... we walked speechless afterwards for a while... Yep, noticed the bad teeth of the main 'villain' in the film... interesting though that the actor is actually a hunter in his 'civilian' life..! You can find more about the film, the cast [incl. interviews] etc. at http://www.atanarjuat.com/index1.html Dedy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2004 Report Share Posted January 3, 2004 First two here were strictly photo and music documentaries. Definitely different, Koyaanisqatsi's music eerie as the speed of the changing world. Powaqqatsi had some incredible village, landscape and tribal culture scenes. Not getting People of the Wind on 's suggestion. Review on that at bottom suggested movie, Grass instead made prior to that. Also was said Fast Runner made after Nanook showed the physical degeneration of the Inuit. Wanita > These 3 are on their way to me from Netflix. First 2 are a trilogy. Can't > find 3rd there > > Koyaanisqatsi > Koyaanisqatsi, which marks Godfrey Reggio's debut as a film director and > producer, is the first installment of the Qatsi trilogy. The title is a > Hopi Indian word meaning " life out of balance. " Created between 1975 and > 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different > worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. Philip Glass > composed the film's musical score > > Powaqqatsi > Where Koyaanisqatsi dealt with the imbalance between nature and modern > society, Powaqqatsi, the second installment in director Godfrey Reggio's > Qatsi trilogy, is a celebration of the human-scale endeavor -- the > craftsmanship, spiritual worship, labor and creativity -- that defines a > particular culture. It's a celebration of rareness but also an observation > of how these societies move to a universal drumbeat. > > The Milestone Collection: People of the Wind > Every year, the Bakhtiari scales the massive Zagros Mountains to feed their > livestock in high summer pastures. This film documents one of the most > amazing feats of human endurance and bravery, and their struggle to survive > the journey > > Anyone seen Nanook of the North made in 1922? > > Wanita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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