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1) The trip
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Odysseus left Troy it took him ten years to get back to his home in Ithaca. Steve and Rob have only six days on their odyssey in. On the way, they argue about tragedy and comedy, astronomy and biology, myth, history, democracy, and the meaning of life! Featuring locations such as: Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Ancient Agora of Athens, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, the unique island of Hydra, the Caves of Diros, and more.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age.
4) The dinner
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the New York Times bestselling novel, THE DINNER turns an ordinary meal among family into a taut morality play as the limits of polite society are tested and two brothers discover just how little they know about each other. To Massimo, a gutsy defense attorney, the monthly dinners with his pediatrician brother Paolo and their wives at a posh local restaurant are a status symbol, even if the time is spent in forced familiarity and inconsequential...
Series
Criterion collection volume 102
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
"An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Profiles pioneering artist and chef Jim Denevan, founder of Outstanding in the Field, a radical alternative to the conventional dining experience. The documentary intimately reveals Denevan's artistic and culinary gifts with land art in epic geometric formations alongside grand dinners in beautiful natural settings. Instead of bringing the food to the restaurant, Outstanding in the Field has brought the restaurant to the food since 1999. Hosted at...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Four close friends, two great couples, married for years, they planned on eating, drinking and parenting their way into old age. But at a dinner party, one friend shows up without their spouse, bearing the news that will test their friendship and their marriages. When a close friend leaves his wife for another woman, whose side do you take?
10) Tasting Menu
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest restaurants in the world is closing and an eclectic mix of international patrons have arrived in beautiful Catalonia for the final dinner service. As the staff prepare and serve an audacious tasting menu, a young couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago before separating, reunite for this once-in-a-lifetime meal. Can their romance be rekindled?
11) The perfect host
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary. The two discover just how deceiving appearances can be in this game of cat and mouse.
Series
Criterion collection volume 479
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Italiano
Description
The hosts of regular gatherings are the dynamic Lorenzo and his life partner, the successful writer Davide. The somewhat uptight Angelica is helping to prepare the food, while her Antonio has yet to appear. The guest list is the abrasive Neval and her husband Roberto, Davide's ex, Sergio, the spirited Roberta, and a new arrival, the budding writer Paolo. These 40-somethings will remember the carefree existence of the past two decades.
Publisher
Koch Lorber
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Four university teachers gather to prepare a dinner. Remy is a married man, Claude a homosexual, Pierre has a girlfriend and Alain is a bachelor. Amongst them, they discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Their dinner guests Louis, Dominique, Diane and Danielle are waiting at a health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening they meet and have dinner where candid conversations are brought...
Publisher
Food Network
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Features four episodes of the television program 30 Minute Meals. It offers timesaving tips and quick, easy recipes, prepared in real-time with ingredients that can be found in any supermarket. Host Rachael Ray shows viewers that it is possible to whip up a healthy meal in a half-hour or less, without sacrificing a thing in flavor. Using the freshest ingredients and uncomplicated techniques, Rachel Ray demystifies cooking.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Vincent, a successful forty-something, is about to become a father for the first time. He is invited to dinner at the apartment of his sister, Elisabeth, and brother-in-law, Pierre, where he catches up with his childhood friend, Claude. Whilst waiting for Anna, his younger spouse, his fellow guests happily bombard him with questions on his fast approaching fatherhood, but when his hosts ask Vincent what name he has chosen for his future offspring,...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Join Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on hilarious culinary tours of Europe, indulging in gorgeous scenery, great food, and sidesplitting banter. After the two not-quite-friends are thrown together to review UK restaurants for a magazine, they find themselves navigating not just British back roads, but their personal life events that won't wait until they return; the ingredients made such a delicious recipe that they were prompted to repeat it in some...
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