Wed December 6, 2023
The Art of Eating- The Life of M.F.K. Fisher-A new documentary
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Wed, Dec. 6, 2023, 2:30pm and 6:30pm; Fisher inspired menu at Cinema Grill
Benefit screening.
Conversations after each show with Director Gregory Bezat and Producer Gary Meyer plus special guest chef and author Michele Anna Jordan, a friend of M.F.K. Fisher.
Fisher inspired dinner at Cinema Grill (separate admission)
https://vimeo.com/866143171Trailer
The film tells the story of the food writer's dramatic life by weaving rediscovered archival interviews, images and rare footage with new commentary from chefs Alice Waters (Chez Panisse), Jacques Pepin, Michele Anna Jordan, Tanya Holland (Brown Sugar Kitchen), L. John Harris, Gayle and John Clark (Foreign Cinema), John Ash, Dominica Rice-Cisneros (Bombera); Kennedy Friede Golden (Fisher's daughter); writers Annie Lamott & Ruth Reichl.
M.F.K. Fisher wrote over 30 books & hundreds of articles.
She elevated cooking from a domestic chore to a critical study of what it means to be human. She was called the "Poet of the Appetite." Described by W.H. Auden as "the best prose writer in America," she forever transformed the 1950s-era background figure of a woman in the kitchen into a living, breathing subject - with dazzling ideas, passionate emotions, and insatiable appetites.
"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly." M.F.K. Fisher
Her sensual writing about food & wine becomes the film's narration as we learn about her passion for fresh food while warning about frozen and fast foods; the challenges of raising 2 daughters as a single mother & unwittingly becoming an icon for the women's movement. starting public wine-tastings in the Napa Valley, and facing old age.
"It is rare that watching a film can provoke a similar response as reading an author's work, but "The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher" does just that. Watching the film, one feels as if one is conversing with Fisher at her dinner table." From Julie Lindow's review:
https://tinyurl.com/4f8ppf8h
$15 for film.
Presented by MFK Fisher Film.
show less
Benefit screening.
Conversations after each show with Director Gregory Bezat and Producer Gary Meyer plus special guest chef and author Michele Anna Jordan, a friend of M.F.K. Fisher.
Fisher inspired dinner at Cinema Grill (separate admission)
https://vimeo.com/866143171Trailer
The film tells the story of the food writer's dramatic life by weaving rediscovered archival interviews, images and rare footage with new commentary from chefs Alice Waters (Chez Panisse), Jacques Pepin, Michele Anna Jordan, Tanya Holland (Brown Sugar Kitchen), L. John Harris, Gayle and John Clark (Foreign Cinema), John Ash, Dominica Rice-Cisneros (Bombera); Kennedy Friede Golden (Fisher's daughter); writers Annie Lamott & Ruth Reichl.
M.F.K. Fisher wrote over 30 books & hundreds of articles.
She elevated cooking from a domestic chore to a critical study of what it means to be human. She was called the "Poet of the Appetite." Described by W.H. Auden as "the best prose writer in America," she forever transformed the 1950s-era background figure of a woman in the kitchen into a living, breathing subject - with dazzling ideas, passionate emotions, and insatiable appetites.
"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly." M.F.K. Fisher
Her sensual writing about food & wine becomes the film's narration as we learn about her passion for fresh food while warning about frozen and fast foods; the challenges of raising 2 daughters as a single mother & unwittingly becoming an icon for the women's movement. starting public wine-tastings in the Napa Valley, and facing old age.
"It is rare that watching a film can provoke a similar response as reading an author's work, but "The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher" does just that. Watching the film, one feels as if one is conversing with Fisher at her dinner table." From Julie Lindow's review:
https://tinyurl.com/4f8ppf8h
$15 for film.
Presented by MFK Fisher Film.
Wed, Dec. 6, 2023, 2:30pm and 6:30pm; Fisher inspired menu at Cinema Grill
Benefit screening.
Conversations after each show with Director Gregory Bezat and Producer Gary Meyer plus special guest chef and author Michele Anna Jordan, a friend of M.F.K. Fisher.
Fisher inspired dinner at Cinema Grill (separate admission)
https://vimeo.com/866143171Trailer
The film tells the story of the food writer's dramatic life by weaving rediscovered archival interviews, images and rare footage with new commentary from chefs Alice Waters (Chez Panisse), Jacques Pepin, Michele Anna Jordan, Tanya Holland (Brown Sugar Kitchen), L. John Harris, Gayle and John Clark (Foreign Cinema), John Ash, Dominica Rice-Cisneros (Bombera); Kennedy Friede Golden (Fisher's daughter); writers Annie Lamott & Ruth Reichl.
M.F.K. Fisher wrote over 30 books & hundreds of articles.
She elevated cooking from a domestic chore to a critical study of what it means to be human. She was called the "Poet of the Appetite." Described by W.H. Auden as "the best prose writer in America," she forever transformed the 1950s-era background figure of a woman in the kitchen into a living, breathing subject - with dazzling ideas, passionate emotions, and insatiable appetites.
"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly." M.F.K. Fisher
Her sensual writing about food & wine becomes the film's narration as we learn about her passion for fresh food while warning about frozen and fast foods; the challenges of raising 2 daughters as a single mother & unwittingly becoming an icon for the women's movement. starting public wine-tastings in the Napa Valley, and facing old age.
"It is rare that watching a film can provoke a similar response as reading an author's work, but "The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher" does just that. Watching the film, one feels as if one is conversing with Fisher at her dinner table." From Julie Lindow's review:
https://tinyurl.com/4f8ppf8h
$15 for film.
Presented by MFK Fisher Film.
read more
Benefit screening.
Conversations after each show with Director Gregory Bezat and Producer Gary Meyer plus special guest chef and author Michele Anna Jordan, a friend of M.F.K. Fisher.
Fisher inspired dinner at Cinema Grill (separate admission)
https://vimeo.com/866143171Trailer
The film tells the story of the food writer's dramatic life by weaving rediscovered archival interviews, images and rare footage with new commentary from chefs Alice Waters (Chez Panisse), Jacques Pepin, Michele Anna Jordan, Tanya Holland (Brown Sugar Kitchen), L. John Harris, Gayle and John Clark (Foreign Cinema), John Ash, Dominica Rice-Cisneros (Bombera); Kennedy Friede Golden (Fisher's daughter); writers Annie Lamott & Ruth Reichl.
M.F.K. Fisher wrote over 30 books & hundreds of articles.
She elevated cooking from a domestic chore to a critical study of what it means to be human. She was called the "Poet of the Appetite." Described by W.H. Auden as "the best prose writer in America," she forever transformed the 1950s-era background figure of a woman in the kitchen into a living, breathing subject - with dazzling ideas, passionate emotions, and insatiable appetites.
"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly." M.F.K. Fisher
Her sensual writing about food & wine becomes the film's narration as we learn about her passion for fresh food while warning about frozen and fast foods; the challenges of raising 2 daughters as a single mother & unwittingly becoming an icon for the women's movement. starting public wine-tastings in the Napa Valley, and facing old age.
"It is rare that watching a film can provoke a similar response as reading an author's work, but "The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher" does just that. Watching the film, one feels as if one is conversing with Fisher at her dinner table." From Julie Lindow's review:
https://tinyurl.com/4f8ppf8h
$15 for film.
Presented by MFK Fisher Film.
show less
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