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Food Film Review: A Place At The Table

Like Food, Inc.? Now it's time to fight hunger.

Feb 26, 2013 10:02 am

There's A Place At The Table for fans of 2009 Oscar-nominated food documentary trailblazer Food Inc., opening in theaters and available on iTunes and On Demand this Friday, March 1. This full-length documentary tackles the next issue after giant food corporations' effects on American agriculture: chronic hunger for 50 million despite the fact that our country produces more than enough to feed every citizen.

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Movie Preview: Go See 'A Place At The Table,' Opening March 1st

Colicchio, Jeff Bridges say nutritious food for all

Feb 14, 2013 5:02 pm

The production companies who put together Food, Inc. have a new film, A Place At The Table, premiering March 1. Instead of tackling the corporations making and pushing unhealthy food, Tom Colicchio and Jeff Bridges want you to meet Americans who can't afford to think about it.

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America’s Coolest Dine-In Movie Theatres

These places are redefining dinner and a movie

Nov 12, 2012 10:01 am

Forget buckets of soda and popcorn coated with curiously calorific butter substitute. Think glazed Black Mission figs and artisanal jerky at Williamsburg's Nitehawk Cinema, or pork belly with peach gratin at Foreign Cinema in San Francisco. Dinner theater gets reimagined at these locations coast-to-coast.

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5 Food-Related Documentaries To Watch At The Doc NYC Film Festival

Dumpster diving, ice cream comes to Rwanda

Nov 5, 2012 3:01 pm

Doc NY is an 8-year-old documentary series that aims to advance documentary film making (and fandom) through weekly screenings, lectures and special events throughout the year. One of these blowouts is their annual film festival, which runs November 8-15 at the IFC Center and SVA Theater in downtown New York City. Here, we preview five featured documentaries around the culture of food.

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Dosa Hunt The Movie Debuts In Brooklyn The Weekend Of October 5

Buy a ticket for the screening at Nitehawk Cinema

Sep 26, 2012 9:31 am

A couple things we can stand behind: Dosas and New York City band-dudes who are into dosas. Stereogum editor Amrit Singh unites the two in a film project he is calling Dosa Hunt (or DOSA HUNT, with appropriately emphatic text). It premieres October 5. More after the jump...

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A Look At The Best Of The Michelin Guide Chefs, Rotten Spots And All

'Three Stars’ focuses on ten chefs around the globe

Sep 25, 2012 1:01 pm

Three Stars focuses on ten chefs who have achieved the highest ranking determined by Michelin. Some of the names may be unfamiliar.

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Movie Review: Step Up To The Plate

Plus, an exclusive clip from the food documentary

Sep 14, 2012 10:01 am

Foraging, farming and donning chef's whites as young as five years old are all part of daily life in this multi-generational family of chef/restaurateurs. '60s-era silent home movie shots, photos and other mementos help illustrate the story of a family with 3 Michelin stars to their name. See our exclusive clip of Step Up To The Plate, in select theaters starting today.

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Why You Should See Michelin Documentary 'Three Stars'

Behind-the-scene in extremely famous kitchens

Aug 23, 2012 1:01 pm

When I realized halfway through the film that this wasn't an advance screening but simply a showing, I started thinking about the last two years of development in molecular gastronomy and haute-est of the haute cuisine and what has happened since the film premiered. It's a lot.

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