Ruth Reichl

America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country’s broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.

Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.

Este documentário apresenta o chef influente Jeremiah Tower, que desempenhou um papel crucial na criação da nova e revolucionária cozinha americana.

As the unabashed cradle of Hollywood superficiality and smoggy urban sprawl, Los Angeles has long been condemned as a cultural wasteland. In the richly penetrating documentary odyssey City of Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold shows us another Los Angeles, where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic portal to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America.

Eat This New York is the story of two best friends' struggle to open a restaurant in the food capital of the world. As Billy Phelps and John McCormick suffer through financial crisis, the loss of their chef, and a crumbling relationship, the filmmakers turn the camera on New York City's legendary restaurateurs who prove that dreams can come true. Billy and John's gamble to open a restaurant together takes shape on Division Street, a unique block in Brooklyn that separates the Satmar Jewish community of Williamsburg from the Latino neighborhood of the South Side. During the course of a year, they convert a former check-cashing shop located under the elevated train tracks of the J/M/Z subway lines into a retro speakeasy. But before the restaurant is fully built they come close to bankruptcy and almost call it quits on their friendship.

Every great cook secretly believes in the power of food. Alice Waters just believes this more than anybody else. She is certain that we are what we eat, and she has made it her mission in life to make sure that people eat beautifully. Waters is creating a food revolution, even if she has to do it one meal at a time.

Baseado na peça vencedora do Prêmio Pulitzer de Donald Margulies, Jantar com Amigos é um drama honesto e muitas vezes engraçado que explora o lado doce mas amargo da amizade, através de dois casais, um dos quais é forçado a examinar seu relacionamento aparentemente bem resolvido quando o casamento do casal melhor amigo se desintegra. A direção coube a Norman Jewison, três vezes indicado para o Oscar de Melhor Diretor pelos filmes: “Um Violinista no Telhado”, “No Calor da Noite”, “Feitiço da Lua”. Outros de seus filmes são “Hurricane – O Furacão”, “Com o Dinheiro dos Outros”, “Agnes de Deus”, e a versão original de “Crown – O Magnífico”. O filme é escrito por Donald Margulies, que o adaptou para as telas baseado em sua peça original.