Iah Film Screening reports
It will be two pages long, Times New Roman, 12pt, double spaced. One page will be your personal review of the film – what worked, what didn’t, what stood out to you etc. Avoid plot summaries. The second page will be a short analysis – how did this film represent food; what connections can you make with the course; what are the social or cultural dynamics that the film is exploring through food?
Students may watch and write screening reports for any 2 of these films:
- The Scent of Green Papaya (Hùng 1993)
- The Lunchbox (Batra 2014)
- Sideways (Payne 2004)
- La Grande Bouffe (Ferreri 1973)
- Neon Demon (Winding Refn, 2016)
- Hannibal (Fuller)/Silence of the Lambs (Demme 1991)
- Babette’s Feast (Axel 1987)
- Burnt (Wells 2015)
- No Reservations (Hicks 2007)
- Julie & Julia (Ephron 2009)
- Ratatouille (Bird 2007)
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenaway 1990)
- Soul Food (Tilman Jr. 1997)
- The God of Cookery (Chow 1996)
- The Baker’s Wife (Pagnol 1940)
- Soylent Green (Fleischer 1973)
- Today’s Special (Kaplan 2009)
- The Hundred-Foot Journey (Hallström 2014)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Lord & Miller 2009)
- Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmush 2012)
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi (Gelb 2011)
