Comments on: No Reservations

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:09:21 +0000

Yep, I agree with APM, i saw eat drink man woman and was able to compare it with the remake tortilla soup. Eat drink man woman was much better. And as an fyi, it was directed i believe by Ang Li of brokeback mountain. Just thinking about eat drink man woman makes me want to go out and eat some chinese food. Definitely worth watching!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:45:38 +0000

apm, Tampopo is fantastic as well…just saw it again recently, too…

By: apm

apm — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:13:10 +0000

Market Man Babette’s Feast is definitely my favorite food related movie. Eat, Drink Man, Woman is a close second and definitely worth watching especially the first five minutes. It was remade in America into a movie called Tortilla Soup but despite the assistance of Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger it had none of the flair of Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. Tampopo is also one of my favorite food movies. Other DVDs worth acquiring are Vatel with Gerard Depardieu, Big Night, and Dinner Rush.

By: Miles

Miles — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:22:02 +0000

saw it last sunday and enjoyed it. refreshing to see catherine with almost no makeup, lines and all. makes her less goddess like but still a great beauty.

By: amateur misanthrope

amateur misanthrope — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:59:34 +0000

Anton Ego is so haughty and cold. You don’t write like a haughty person.

By: Rowi

Rowi — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:24:22 +0000

This movie Eat, Drink, Man Woman, is this about a retired widower/chef who has three daughters and prepares mouth-watering sunday dinners? If it is, I saw this film on Swedish tv some months back and as most foreign films shown here, it was shown in its original language, Chinese, and sub-titled in Swedish. I enjoyed the film, esp. the culinary scenes. The dishes were so steamingly good, it reminded me of some of the lively restaurant scenes in Hongkong.
Have yet to see No reservations, and Mostly Martha. Will definitely check these out.
Thanks for the review MM!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:56:34 +0000

ragamuffin girl, I have been meaning to buy a DVD of Eat Drink Man Woman… hmmm, I should just order it online…

By: ragamuffin girl

ragamuffin girl — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:58:12 +0000

Have you watched Eat Drink Man Woman? Apart from Babette’s Feast and Like Water for Chocolate, I loved this movie too…the Chinese cooking makes me so hungry! :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:13:42 +0000

apm, thanks for the reviews, I hope to watch Mostly Martha in time…I just got my favorite food movie on DVD for my birthday a few months ago, Babette’s Feast. Ingrid, my sister says Catherine Zeta Jones looked to good to be a real chef…hahaha… Lei, no agenda there. The author of the article on blogs is a blogger herself and had asked permission to quote my about page weeks ago, actually at the height of the plagiarism controversy. And the picture is correctly credited to Mrs. Marketman as the photographer. The Inquirer is paying more attention to the source of their photos, if you notice their lifestyle pages, the fashion photos are now being attributed to several internet and blog sources…shows you where they find a lot of their article materials, as I did write about… asunta, label is right, Mrs. MM is the photographer, picture was requested from me. Nancy, I did a precious post on Kaffir or Makrut lime leaves, I have a plant in my garden and they are for sale in garden shops. The Kaffir lime is used extensively in Thai cooking…

By: apm

apm — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:32:31 +0000

Hi Market Man,

I preferred Mostly Martha. Then again it had the advantage of novelty. If you watch Mostly Martha after watching No reservations then perhaps you would prefer No Reservations. Let me know if you want to watch Mostly Martha I have a large collection of Food related movies and Cooking DVDs.