Food, Inc.

Son of Major Tom, at Ground Control

It was inevitable that Duncan Jones’s first movie would be a science-fiction film. While he was growing up, Mr. Jones, the British director, said, his father made sure he read at least two hours a night, and turned him on to the speculative fiction of authors like George Orwell when he was as young as 8 or 9. Later, as a lonely adolescent, he was irresistibly drawn to the alternate realities presented in the novels of Philip K. Dick and J. G. Ballard. “My upbringing was pretty weird, anyway,” Mr. »

Meet Your New Farmer: Hungry Corporate Giant

Forget buckets of blood. Nothing says horror like one of those tubs of artificially buttered, nonorganic popcorn at the concession stand. That, at least, is one of the unappetizing lessons to draw from one of the scariest movies of the year, “Food, Inc.,” an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding, Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy. You’ll shudder, shake and just possibly lose your genetically modified lunch. »

Eat, Drink, Think, Change

MOVIES about food used to make you want to eat. The decade that spanned the mid-1980s to mid-1990s was particularly fruitful. It took heroic resolve to walk out of the Japanese spaghetti western “Tampopo” and not head directly to a ramen bar. Cooks spent entire months trying to recreate “Babette’s Feast” and dreamed of rolling out pasta with Stanley Tucci in “Big Night.” By the time Ang Lee’s “Eat Drink Man Woman” came out in 1994, moviegoers had come to expect food films filled with glistening dumplings, magical dessert and technically perfect kitchen scenes. »

"Food, Inc." : les meilleures recettes de la malbouffe

"Food, Inc." : les meilleures recettes de la malbouffe On connaît les dérives des fast-food, dont certains films nous ont déjà dénoncé les coulisses et les effets néfastes. C'est en équipe avec le journaliste d'investigation Eric Schlosser, auteur d'un livre adapté au cinéma par Richard Linklater (Fast Food Nation) que Robert Kenner nous livre cette enquête sur les lobbies agroalimentaires américains. Ce qui est mis à jour dans ce documentaire passionnant est l'influence de l'essor du fast-food sur toute l'industrie de l'alimentation. »