Photo courtesy Greenbar Distillery.
by Risa Nye
What does someone who writes about spirits and cocktails do when she goes out of town? As it turns out, she visits a distillery. Call it a busman’s holiday. But a recent trip to Los Angeles involved a trip to the Greenbar Craft Distillery, where my fellow tasters and I learned the ways in which we can actually become “carbon negative” for a day when we imbibe one cocktail made with two ounces of any Greenbar spirits. Continue reading
Dear Friends,
Ever heard of Hitchcock or Truffaut? Most likely you have seen some of their movies—possibly more of the work they directed than by other filmmakers. Our focus this week is on the new documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut as the French director’s daughter Laura and independent filmmaker Roger Leatherwood take turns writing about it. Pam Grady interviews the doc’s director, Kent Jones, who also offers an essay on growing up discovering these movies. As a bonus we offer a selection of most unusual trailers in Eat My Shorts. Continue reading
A sampling of cocktails from the Greenbar Craft Distillery. Continue reading
by Tom Downs
Neon Photos by Al Barna
(Join us as EatDrinkFilms co-presents a night of Neon and Noir at San Francisco’s Balboa Theater on Saturday, December 12th, 2015. Special features include a compilation of San Francisco home movies from the Prelinger Archive that showcase San Francisco’s neon heritage, neon shorts plus Dark Passage, a classic noir directed by Delmer Daves and starring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart set in San Francisco. Complete details below.) Continue reading
Director David Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller pose with a mugwump. Naked Lunch, 1991
by Michael Cecconi
How many drops make an ocean?
How many pixels until the picture becomes clear?
How many licks to the middle of a Tootsie Roll Pop? Continue reading
Dear Friends,
We hope that you had your fill of whatever makes Thanksgiving taste good for you. Continue reading
Happy Halloween 2015! Now just put these glasses on. Continue reading
The ultimate celebration of film, food and wine, the Napa Valley Film Festival lights up Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga November 11-15. NVFF features 120 new independent films and studio sneak previews screening in 12 theaters including the beautifully restored movie palace, The Uptown and many custom designed venues throughout the four walkable villages. Continue reading
Courtesy Rykoff Collection/CORBIS
Dear Friends,
Happy Halloween!
As a kid Halloween was about decorating our house and pretending it was haunted. Other than character-based costumes there were no decorations to buy. We used ingenuity to create our sets and ways to scare trick-or-treaters. Continue reading
The new movie based on Michael Pollan’s best-selling book is having its San Francisco Premiere Saturday, October 24 at the Roxie Theatre as part of EatDrinkFilms’ Food Day /Film Day celebration. Read about the film here.
Welcome to issue 76 of EatDrinkFilms.
This week features two installments of Critics Corner with an emphasis on vivid humor: M.K. Brown and Paul Krassner view Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon and bring their own experiences to bear upon the movie’s version of events, while Robert Bloomberg and Ralph Eggleston celebrate the diverse themes and imaginative visions of Ron Diamond’s traveling festival the Animation Show of Shows. Continue reading
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