Food, Inc.

Davvero un bel documentario che illustra la filiera della carne. E' un documentario poco conosciuto però.

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.

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 [...] Vai alla recensione »

Eating can be one dangerous business. Don't take another bite till you see Robert Kenner's Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary that is scarier than anything in the last five Saw horror shows. Decepticons have nothing on ears of corn when it comes to transforming into mutant killers. Kenner keeps his film bouncing with humor, music and graphics.

Thanks to the smart, expertly shot documentary "Food, Inc.," I now know why it's so hard to find a supermarket tomato that tastes like, well, a tomato. That's because tomatoes, like so much of our food, aren't farmed or grown as much as they are engineered to satisfy rigid corporate and economic mandates. And don't get producer-director Robert Kenner started on beef, chicken, pork or that No.

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 [...] Vai alla recensione »

"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. [...] Vai alla recensione »