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[Catherine Iino]

In the otherwise completely forgettable Bye Bye Love, the hilarious restaurant scene with Janeane Garafalo, the date from hell, going through the menu and deciding what to order.

[lesliec]

The Matrix, in the scene where Cypher (Joe Pantoliano) is discussing the terms of his 'defection' with Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving).

I want that steak!

[Homebrew Guy]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!
"Chilled monkey brains."

[Porthos]

Fried Green Tomatoes: The food fight in the kitchen of the Whistle Stop Cafe.

And don't ever forget: The secret's in the sauce.

Edited by Porthos, 06 July 2011 - 10:25 PM.

[ScoopKW]

Godfather Part 1 - at the restaurant (Louie's) in the Bronx, Michael having dinner with Solozzo and McCluskey...Sollozzo tells McCluskey to "try the veal, it's the best in the city," about two minutes before Michael comes out of the bathroom and blows both of them away.

I still use Clemenza's tomato sauce recipe:

"Heh, come over here, kid, learn something. You never know, you might have to cook for 20 guys someday. You see, you start out with a little bit of oil. Then you fry some garlic. Then you throw in some tomatoes, tomato paste, you fry it; ya make sure it doesn't stick. You get it to a boil; you shove in all your sausage and your meatballs; heh…? And a little bit o' wine. An' a little bit o' sugar, and that's my trick."

[Big Joe the Pro]

John Belushi, disheveled, half-drunk and in need of a shave; "Food Fight"!
'National Lampoon's Animal House' classic stuff

It's the first thing that came to my mind (and it didn't take too long to arrive).

[annabelle]

It's already been mentioned, but I have to go with Good Fellas.

"Did you put onions in the sauce?"
"Yeah. I put onions in the sauce."
"He always puts too many onions in the sauce."
"It's still good sauce, though."

That scene in prison and the scene at Tommy's mother's house where they went to borrow a shovel in the middle of the night and she insists on making them a meal.

Edited by annabelle, 07 July 2011 - 04:57 PM.

[Will]

I don't know if it counts, since food is mentioned in the title and is a central metaphor, but the movie isn't really exactly a food movie either -- Eat Drink Man Woman (by Ang Lee). Some incredible food scenes, including some amazing long tracking shots of a truly enormous (and bustling) hotel kitchen, as well as some great home cooking sequences.

It's really worth renting or watching in its entirety if you haven't already (it's currently on Netflix's On Demand service for those who have it), but for those who are too lazy, I'll link to the opening sequence:

Edited by Will, 07 July 2011 - 09:13 PM.

[Darienne]

I don't know if it counts, since food is mentioned in the title and is a central metaphor, but the movie isn't really exactly a food movie either -- Eat Drink Man Woman (by Ang Lee). Some incredible food scenes, including some amazing long tracking shots of a truly enormous (and bustling) hotel kitchen, as well as some great home cooking sequences.

It's really worth renting or watching in its entirety if you haven't already (it's currently on Netflix's On Demand service for those who have it), but for those who are too lazy, I'll link to the opening sequence:

Amazing sequence. As one of the appended comments said...I too was mesmerized watching the sequence. Thanks.

[Panaderia Canadiense]

The attempts at Kosher cooking with a hostage in The Big Hit, the last supper in Life of Brian (along with "blessed are the cheesemakers"), and of course, both the exploding gourmand at the restaurant in The Meaning of Life and also the dinner party that death crashes.

On that note, although it's not strictly a movie perse, the Milliway's scenes in the old BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which Arthur meets his meat is truly priceless as well, as are those where he and Ford are eating this awful blue and green Vogon food just after having been picked up.

Also, Hudson Hawk, for the Italian diner scene just after he's robbed the Vatican.

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Edited by Panaderia Canadiense, 08 July 2011 - 06:46 AM.

[Blether]

The repel cuisine scene in Betty Blue / 37.2 Le Matin. Zorg & Betty are waiting tables in Eddy's pizza joint: troublesome customers lead to the construction of a 'special', assembled mostly from the trashcan. A special which proves a remarkable hit:



Then Betty stabs one of them in the arm with a fork. Of course.

Edited by Blether, 08 July 2011 - 08:40 AM.

[annabelle]

The Bicycle Thief the cafe scene where the father takes his son for lunch and they are eating a slice of pizza and drinking wine in tumblers while the families at the other tables are eating luxurious foods and giving them dirty looks.

[andiesenji]

It's an ancient film (1944) but I am sort of addicted to TCM so a few days ago recorded and watched "The Canterville Ghost" which has some very funny scenes.

The platoon of GIs, (Rangers) billeted in the castle, are invited to tea by the owner, 6-year-old Margaret O'Brien.
The difficulties the GIs had with handling a teacup and saucer in one hand, a plate with cake in the other and attempting to eat and drink had me giggling and eventually holding my sides with laughter.

There is a more recent film that has some funny kitchen scenes (also a vegetable garden scene) that I enjoyed:
"It's Complicated" However, the best food-related scene is when Jane (Meryl Streep) takes Adam (Steve Martin) to her bakery and prepares chocolate croissants.....

[Mjx]

The scenes around the meal in Airplane never cease to enchant me. 'I haven't felt this awful since we saw that Ronald Reagan film.' Brilliant.

[Beebs]

"Anne of Green Gables" (the one with Megan Follows), in which Diana drinks all the raspberry cordial, which turned out to be blackberry wine, and gets drunk.

Also the part where Anne finds a drowned mouse in the pitcher of custard. Marilla is serving it to guests when Anne comes running in screaming, "There was a mouse drowned in it!"

Tee hee!

[GordonCooks]

Monty Python's

Mr.Creosote

[Kerry Beal]

Monty Python's

Mr.Creosote

"just a wafer thin mint'!

[karlos]

Cool Hand Luke- "I can eat 50 eggs!" Paul Newman lying flat on his back with the biggest food baby I've ever seen on screen. Great scene and great movie.

[Busboy]

The French Connection. The scene where they cut between the bad guys eating a grotesquely opulent old school French lunch, while Popeye Doyle stands across the street freezing his ass off, eating bad pizza and drinking cold coffee from a Styrofoam cup.

This link has some background on the actual restaurant and, at the bottom, the sceneitself. Aside from the food, it's a brilliant 2:26 portrait of the two-faced bitch that was Manhattan in the 1970s.

[DanM]

The bowl of spaghetti in Lady and the Tramp.

[DanM]

Now that I don't have a screaming toddler to deal with, here are a few more.

Kill Bill during the scene where she first meets Hatori Hanzo in his restaurant.

ET when he gets drunk

The "dinner" at the end of Hannibal

"How do you get so big eating food of this kind??" - Yoda

The dinner scene in Munich.

[annabelle]

One of my favorite movies, Tin Mentakes place over the course of several weeks and includes a number of breakfast scenes at different dinners in Baltimore in the 60's.

[drago]

The Hungarian cult classic Szinbád (1971) by Zoltán Huszárik has an iconic lunch scene, where Szinbád (played by Zoltán Latinovits) feasts on soup, bone marrow, pheasants and tafelspitz. There is a clip on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/TnEn-P7z_3Y

Edited by drago, 18 July 2011 - 11:53 AM.

[Catherine Iino]

While we're in Hungary, there's Taxidermia. I will not describe the appropriate scenes; I'm only mentioning it for those of you who have seen it already.

[FrogPrincesse]

How can you not fall in love with a young Catherine Deneuve singing while baking a "cake d'amour"? This is from Peau d'Ane, a musical by the French director Jacques Demy (score by Michel Legrand), who directed Deneuve in several other movies early in her career. In the story, she is forced to escape from her father, the King (played by Jean Marais), who wants to marry her after the Queen dies. She uses a donkey skin as a disguise.

In this scene, she bakes a cake intended to cure a Prince who has fallen ill. She can be seen both as the Princess and as Donkey Skin during the song. Notice how she places her ring in the cake... It's all going to end with a beautiful wedding of course!

The movie has a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor, so it's more interesting than a typical fairy tale.

I am convinced that this scene must have contributed to my love of baking since a young age!



(And no, she does not weigh her ingredients, and all of her measurements are very approximative - a hand of this, a drop of that, etc)

[ChrisZ]

The British cult film "Withnail & I" has a great scene where they're trying to roast a chicken. It starts with Withnail contemplating the live chicken - "how do we make it die?" - and ends with them placing the deceased and plucked chicken in the oven, perched upright on top of the kettle.

From the same film I've also heard more than one person quote the infamous line "We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!" - which isn't exactly cooking, but it's the sort of thing you hear in a kitchen...

[MariaA]

Sweet temptations