Category Archives: movies
How do you move beyond something like “Last Tango in Paris”?
If you haven’t seen The Scene (three words: sex, butter and Brando), then you’ve probably heard about it, and if you haven’t heard about it, then you’re probably better off. It’s a vulgar movie. The true beginning of the end … Continue reading
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Bonus reading for January book club, plus a field trip to BookPeople for “A Mess of Greens”
If my pre-Kindergarten son can get 14 pages of homework over Thanksgiving break, I don’t feel too badly suggesting bonus reading for our January book club meeting. Last week, I posted about our January 10 meeting in which we’ll be … Continue reading
The Feminist Kitchen book club + film series
From “Mildred Pierce” to “Sex and the City,” movies and books are full of women eating, growing, making, sharing, talking about and being described through food. I had no idea I’d be blogging about books and films so much when … Continue reading
Is Mildred Pierce a feminist?
Until HBO started promoting its new miniseries starring Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce and Rachel Evan Wood, I’d never heard of Mildred Pierce. The central charcter of James Cain’s 1941 novel of the same name is a sexually liberated divorcee who … Continue reading
Smashing stereotypes and heirloom tomatoes
If you are at all interested in gender and sexuality — and, really, who isn’t — by now you’ve probably seen “The Kids Are All Right,” one of my favorite movies of 2010. Annette Bening was nominated for an Oscar … Continue reading
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‘Eat Pray Love’ and eat some more
Every once in a while, the editors at the Statesman ask me to review movies that have something to do with food — it’s been so long since anyone noticed the film studies minor on my resume to know that … Continue reading
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Chatter: Dude food, aprons and a documentary on waitresses
The Game of Waitressing: I can’t wait to watch the full version of “Dish,” a documentary about “women, waitressing and the art of service.” “I’m not your servant, I’m just serving you food today.” Aprons are back! The Los Angeles … Continue reading
