By Lincoln Spector. (April 4, 2024)
What’s Screening: April 5 – 11
For reasons that I prefer not to discuss, I’ve lost the Bayflicks blog…hopefully only for a while. Thankfully, Gary Meyer of Eat Drink Film has given me space for my newsletter. Continue reading
By Meredith Brody
(March 25, 2024)
You can go see Carol Doda Topless at the Condor expecting to see a lot of naked flesh, even without knowing the story of the blonde gogo dancer who danced the Frug in Rudi Gernreich’s topless swimsuit on top of a piano in a nightclub.
MCP’s Unique Look at Gender Issues in Classic French Film
OWEN FIELD (interviewing Phoebe Green and Don Malcolm)
(March 28,2024)
In the midst of its long-running rare French noir series (that will exceed 150 titles screened when it concludes this fall), Midcentury Productions has opened the door to an entirely other aspect of classic French cinema: what we might call “the battle of the sexes.” It’s a rich area, because that battle is still going on—particularly in America, with reproductive rights suddenly front and center.
An Interview with SIFF27 Culinary Excellence Award winner, Chef Susan Feniger and filmmaker Liz Lachman.
By Geneva Anderson
(March 20, 2024)
When Los Angeles filmmaker and Emmy award winner Liz Lachman (“Pin-Up,” “Getting to Know You”) set out to make her first feature-length film about partner, Chef Susan Feniger, opening her first solo restaurant in Los Angeles in 2009, she already had lots of footage. The idea of capturing Susan’s journey in realizing “Street,” a dining concept that would bring a variety of global street foods together under one roof and doing this without her longtime business partner and co-chef Mary Sue Milliken, had been simmering for 13 years. Continue reading
By Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger
(March 20, 2024)
One of the most popular dishes at Border Grill, Mary Sue and Susan’s favorite pollo dish puts a spiced-up spin on grilled chicken marinated in a blend of spices and seared to perfection with a flavorful cilantro sauce and a tangy pickled tomato salsa for a burst of flavor.
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By Geneva Anderson
(March 16, 2024)
Haley Bennett rises to become the Grand Dame of Champagne in Thomas Napper’s “Widow Clicquot”
The Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF27) is just around the corner, March 20-24. Set in the heart of the wine country, with a program that emphasizes film, food, wine, parties, and community engagement, SIFF has twice been voted one of the 25 coolest festivals in the world by MovieMaker magazine. SIFF27 showcases 43 narrative and 16 documentary features plus 48 shorts from over 25 countries. Continue reading
Eric Drysdale is back with his third visit to the Criteriumb closet where he chooses movies for his collection—do they really exist?
By Gaetano Kazuo Maida
“It’s never finished. It’s always in movement.”—Michel Troisgros 
Okay, so let’s say you’re like me and you don’t customarily (like, never!) spend $1000 for lunch for two, and it happens that you don’t live in France, and yet you have good taste in food, you know what it is to enjoy a fine wine occasionally, you’re curious about the synergies between sustainable agriculture and restaurants, and at the moment are feeling a bit peckish. Well, the universe is generous, and Menu Plaisirs Les Troisgros offers a reasonable facsimile of enjoying one of the world’s top haute cuisine institutions from the comfort of your own seat or couch for four hours, about the duration of a really nice long lunch, albeit without the tasting bit. Continue reading
(January 18, 2024)
A year ago, in advance of the release of Eddie Muller’s new book of Film Noir inspired cocktails, we published a sneak preview of two recipes.
As Noir City 21 plays January 19-28 at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, California —and is coming to cities across the country, EatDrinkFilms is pleased to offer a few more goodies to quench your thirst for a great movie and an inspired drink.
(January 13, 2024)
Cheryl Hess has been doing the film festival circuit with her hilarious short documentary about a vegan recipe at a Meatball Contest.
And we have that recipe for you below.
By Owen Field
(Including fragments of an interview with Midcentury Productions’ Don Malcolm.) (November 30, 2023)
THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT is one of the world’s best-kept open secrets, spilling out a world of film noir—or, more accurately, perhaps, a “lost continent” that has been relentlessly explored at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco since November 2014.
Lino Ventura in WITNESS IN THE CITY (UN TEMOIN DANS LA VILLE)
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