Tuesday, July 24, 2007

From Ruhlman.com, Anthony Bourdain thinks that Ratatouille is the best cooking movie ever made.

"I think it's quite simply the best food movie ever made,” Tony wrote today in an email. “The best restaurant movie ever made--the best chef movie. The tiny details are astonishing: The faded burns on the cooks' wrists. The "personal histories" of the cooks...the attention paid to the food...And the Anton Ego ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest--literally breathtaking. I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults--and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once--a long time ago--all about: Audible surprise, delight, awe and even a measure of enlightenment. I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my miniscule contribution (if any) early early in the project's development led to a "thank you" in the credits. Amazing how much they got "right."

1 comment:

amanda said...

If Tony Bourdain says I should see it, I kinda want to see it. Bourdain also convinced me that I wanted to eat a donut with bacon baked right on top.