Eat Drink Man Woman
- This is a past program
Co-presented with the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
In person: Alice Waters
Food and Film is a quarterly series designed to delight the senses and inspire the mind. Curated with renowned chef, activist and cinephile Alice Waters, who will introduce the screening, each program in the series draws on Waters’ philosophy that eating, like art, is a political act and that exploring the intersections between the culinary and moving image arts can help illuminate the path toward building more sustainable, thriving communities together.
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
With his fourth feature, co-written with Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus, Taiwanese director Ang Lee firmly cemented his status as a major auteur. The economy and feeling of his storytelling is evident from the opening sequence establishing the home of retired chef Chu (Hui Ling Wang) as an oasis from a bustling Taipei with his kitchen at its center. From it emanates the sights and sounds of the Sunday banquets he artfully prepares that draw his three adult daughters home. Through evocative detail, Lee builds a delicate, heartwarming portrait of a family for which food and cooking is the language they communicate with as they navigate together the ever-shifting course of love and relationships in their lives.
35mm, color, in Mandarin with English subtitles, 123 min. Director: Ang Lee. Screenwriter: Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang. With: Lang Hsiung, Kuei-mei Yang, Chien-lien Wu.
Dine at Hammer’s acclaimed Lulu restaurant before the screening
Dine at Lulu for an early dinner and special menu by Alice Waters in celebration of the featured film, Eat Drink Man Woman. After your meal, head across the courtyard to the Billy Wilder Theater at 7:30 pm for opening remarks by Alice and the free screening. Reserve your table in advance.
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