SF Chronicle: Top 10 Wine Movies
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:47 pm
OK, guys, it's Friday and here's a bit from the San Francisco Chronicle which may amuse:
Top Ten Wine Movies
Top Ten Wine Movies
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Gary Barlettano wrote:OK, guys, it's Friday and here's a bit from the San Francisco Chronicle which may amuse:
Top Ten Wine Movies
"Mondovino" (2004): This plodding, anti-American wine documentary excited French audiences and angered some interview subjects who felt misled. If you're not a total wine geek, it's long and boring.
Mark Lipton wrote: "Sideways" a wine movie? Sheesh! Only if one counts the irony of Miles dissing Merlot and Cab Franc while treasuring a Cheval Blanc.
Peter May wrote:
Set in picturesque winelands about someone chasing the wine of his dreams, and with a spellbinding monologue about wine (by Maya) and you don't count it a wine movie?
Set in picturesque winelands about someone chasing the wine of his dreams, and with a spellbinding monologue about wine (by Maya) and you don't count it a wine movie?
one of Antonio Banderas' many little awful films that couldn't,
Manuel Camblor wrote:This dismissal, and the whole "anti-American" thing makes the Chronicle writer look like an imbecile.
Peter May wrote:Mark Lipton wrote: Set in picturesque winelands about someone chasing the wine of his dreams, and with a spellbinding monologue about wine (by Maya) and you don't count it a wine movie?
Mark Lipton wrote: To me, "Sideways" is a movie about two middle-aged losers on a road trip through wine country. Wine is basically a backdrop to the story. YMMV of course.
Robin Garr wrote:Manuel Camblor wrote:This dismissal, and the whole "anti-American" thing makes the Chronicle writer look like an imbecile.
"Makes him look?" Do you think the Chronicle writer needed any help doing what obviously came naturally?
Manuel Camblor wrote:Damn, Hoke, all this and nothing to say about Mondovino?
I have to time that blasted film. I'm wondering how much screentime the Mondavis, Parker, Suckling and (because Dave forgot) the Staglin people get onscreen as putative representatives of America vis-à-vis what Michel Rolland, the Mouton people, the whole Italian bunch or Arnaldo Etchart get as representatives of the globalizing, homogenizing evils of the wine world get. Leave it to the Americans to think it's all about them...
Dave Erickson wrote:There's enough bad behaviour in this film to cover several continents (almost forgot the Peron fans...).
I still doubt the value of expending all that energy just to offer the hope that Miles might be a better person