'The Taste of Things' Is More Than an Ode to Pleasure February 20, 2024
Some movie stars have an uncanny knack for catching the light; Juliette Binoche seems to be illuminated from within. Now just shy of 60, Binoche has conveyed her radiance in every kind of film imaginable, from radical art-house provocations to cozy c...
The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies February 14, 2024
For just about as long as there have been movies, food has played a meaningful role in film. This history dates all the way back to the silent era and films like Mr. Flip (1909), in which a fed-up waitress who’s being harassed shoves a pie into the f...
Eat and Be Eaten February 09, 2024
The café was hers, and so of course it was named after her. I came upon Sissy’s late one afternoon in January of 2017, when I was young and careless and in Kamakura, Japan. I had spent the day wandering the hills (my photos are of graves, statues, th...