Updated with tasty new food film series!

Eat This Film!

Foodies and cinephiles alike take note: online film journal Reverse Shot and New York food magazine Edible bring you Eat This Film!, a summer screening series at 92YTribeca that looks at our relationship to food via the moving image. This series will highlight a unique selection of timely and timeless international shorts and features (fiction and documentary) followed by in-depth discussions with notable guest speakers, from filmmakers and authors to farmers and chefs. Whether set in today’s America, World War II–era Europe, or even among late nineteenth century Italian peasants, these films engage viewers in a dialogue about agriculture, the role of food in our lives and issues of sustenance in the world we live in. In Eat This Film!, great moviemaking is the main course.

Wed, Jun 9, 7:30 pm, $12

Film | FAST FOOD NATION

Join Richard Linklater in person for his brilliant, humane, freeform fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser‘s (also in-person) nonfiction bestseller never got the audience it richly deserved. More than just an exposé of the meat and processed food industries, Linklater’s Fast Food Nation is a sprawling, frightening survey of contemporary culture, prismatically told through the lives of a group of characters—from corporate puppet-men to exploited Mexican immigrants—who converge in one nowheresville Colorado town. An exhilarating rant against an entrenched hierarchical system that encourages exploitation right down the line,Fast Food Nation is one of the most courageous recent American films. Part of the series Eat This Film! Co-presented by Edible and Reverse Shot. Director: Richard Linklater. 116 min. 2006. 35mm. [Read more...]