Actor Bill Pullman is set to present his favourite food film, 1987’s Babette’s Feast, as the opening-night film at the world’s largest culinary film festival, Devour!, which runs Nov 4-8 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
The festival’s executive director Michael Howell and managing director Lia Rinaldo launched the 2015 programme in Toronto last week.
Films to screen include That Sugar Film, The Birth of Sake, A Year In Champagne, Swank Farm, In Defense of Food, The Empire of Scents, Sergio Herman: Fucking Perfect, Happy 140, Foodies, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, Good Things Await, The Duel of Wine, For Grace, and Relative Happiness.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see how Devour! has grown since its inception to become the world’s premier film festival focusing on our love of both cuisine and cinema,” said Howell.
“The team has worked extremely hard to create a sensory overload for anyone coming to Wolfville this November – from the 78 films, to a significant...
The festival’s executive director Michael Howell and managing director Lia Rinaldo launched the 2015 programme in Toronto last week.
Films to screen include That Sugar Film, The Birth of Sake, A Year In Champagne, Swank Farm, In Defense of Food, The Empire of Scents, Sergio Herman: Fucking Perfect, Happy 140, Foodies, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, Good Things Await, The Duel of Wine, For Grace, and Relative Happiness.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see how Devour! has grown since its inception to become the world’s premier film festival focusing on our love of both cuisine and cinema,” said Howell.
“The team has worked extremely hard to create a sensory overload for anyone coming to Wolfville this November – from the 78 films, to a significant...
- 9/23/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
What does a chef who is best known for cooking up meals in strange situations and deliberating exposing himself to almost impossible challenges do for his next series? In Bob Blumer's case, he switches to the other side of the table and investigates all the places where food is served up in wacky ways.
Blumer's new show, "World's Weirdest Restaurants," starts this week, airing Wednesdays on Food Network Canada. Showing off the strangest stuff going on in the food industry, the premise seems simple enough, but Blumer found that things aren't always what they seem.
"We looked at hundreds of restaurants, and honestly, our biggest problem was when things just weren't weird enough," he told The Huffington Post Canada. "We need layers. The [orange-shaped] Orange Julep in Montreal, for example, is weird in one sense -- the physical sense -- but it's a one-note weirdness."
With each episode consisting of...
Blumer's new show, "World's Weirdest Restaurants," starts this week, airing Wednesdays on Food Network Canada. Showing off the strangest stuff going on in the food industry, the premise seems simple enough, but Blumer found that things aren't always what they seem.
"We looked at hundreds of restaurants, and honestly, our biggest problem was when things just weren't weird enough," he told The Huffington Post Canada. "We need layers. The [orange-shaped] Orange Julep in Montreal, for example, is weird in one sense -- the physical sense -- but it's a one-note weirdness."
With each episode consisting of...
- 4/2/2012
- by The Huffington Post Canada
- Aol TV.
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