To celebrate the releases of The Act Of Killing and The Gatekeepers on DVD, Madman is giving you, our dear readers, the chance to win a DVD pack consisting of 10 documentaries (pictured above). Whether you like it confronting, informative or entertaining, you will definitely find something you like in the pack. First prize (one winner): All 10 of the pictured documentaries on DVD - The Act Of Killing, The Gatekeepers, Pussy Riot, The Human Scale, The House I Love In, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Searching For Sugar Man, El Bulli: Cooking In Progress, Dreams Of A Life, The Queen Of VersaillesSecond prize (three winners): One of the following documentaries on DVD - The Act Of Killing, The Gatekeepers, Pussy Riot, The Human Scale, The House...
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- 1/19/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Our New View film season kicks off with a study of the brilliant chef Ferran Adrià and his groundbreaking restaurant El Bulli. Available in the UK and Ireland only
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Welcome to day one of the New View film season: a five-part celebration of cutting-edge documentary-making that aims to cover all bases. We're kicking off with El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, a profile of the legendary Spanish restaurant which rose to worldwide renown under chef Ferran Adrià. It pioneered the notion of "molecular gastronomy", won its third Michelin star in 1997, and closed in 2011.
Here's what what Observer film critic Philip French thought:
This film is a memorial to a peculiarly elitist culinary aesthetic where everything is new, original, cutting edge, following the master of "molecular gastronomy" on one of his last big years. The theme of the year is water in all its forms,...
Reading on mobile? Click here to watch El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Welcome to day one of the New View film season: a five-part celebration of cutting-edge documentary-making that aims to cover all bases. We're kicking off with El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, a profile of the legendary Spanish restaurant which rose to worldwide renown under chef Ferran Adrià. It pioneered the notion of "molecular gastronomy", won its third Michelin star in 1997, and closed in 2011.
Here's what what Observer film critic Philip French thought:
This film is a memorial to a peculiarly elitist culinary aesthetic where everything is new, original, cutting edge, following the master of "molecular gastronomy" on one of his last big years. The theme of the year is water in all its forms,...
- 4/15/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
From mosh-pits to moon-men, and food to fonts, the New View documentary season showcases the unusual, the unlikely and the utterly obsessed
It's time for another treat courtesy of the Guardian Screening Room: a five-film season of cutting-edge documentaries that should contain something for everyone. All life is here: secrets of the master chefs, the inside scoop on classic monster movies; what life is like for learning-disabled punk rockers; the intricacies of lettering and typeface design; and the story behind a Russian orthodox nunnery. It all kicks off a week today, but now's the time to enter our competition to give away free viewings to 1000 people.
So, on 15 April, we begin launching our film season: one film a day for five days.
First out of the traps is El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, a film about the legendary Spanish restaurant, which closed in 2011. During its heydey it pioneered "molecular gastronomy...
It's time for another treat courtesy of the Guardian Screening Room: a five-film season of cutting-edge documentaries that should contain something for everyone. All life is here: secrets of the master chefs, the inside scoop on classic monster movies; what life is like for learning-disabled punk rockers; the intricacies of lettering and typeface design; and the story behind a Russian orthodox nunnery. It all kicks off a week today, but now's the time to enter our competition to give away free viewings to 1000 people.
So, on 15 April, we begin launching our film season: one film a day for five days.
First out of the traps is El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, a film about the legendary Spanish restaurant, which closed in 2011. During its heydey it pioneered "molecular gastronomy...
- 4/8/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Vendome Pictures will produce and finance "El Bulli," a fictionalized feature based on the the world famous chef and molecular gastronomer Ferran Adrià and his restaurant, elBulli. While no director is currently attached, the script is already written. It comes from David Wilson, who was inspired by Lisa Abend’s book "The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià’s elBulli." The chef and his restaurant were also the subject of Germany's 2011 documentary, "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress," which is currently streaming on Netflix. More on the film and Abend's book below. Vendome's Philippe Rousselet states, “We are excited to be a part of this film and to work with an innovator like Ferran who has revolutionized cuisine by creating his own genre of food. We look forward to attaching a director to this film that will be able to capture the adventure of training in.
- 2/13/2013
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Jiro Ono's exacting standards have earned him three Michelin stars, but it's his taciturn nature that spices and sours this documentary
An apprentice to Jiro Ono can work for 10 years before the master starts calling him shokunin ("artisan"). "I made a dish 200 times," says one harried itamae. "When he told me I got it right I cried". The exacting standards of 86-year-old Ono, honed over 75 years, have earned him three Michelin stars, but it's his taciturn nature that both spices and sours David Gelb's minimalist documentary. Ono's views on food, his past (he was abandoned by his parents), his future (his oldest son Yoshikazu is sharpening his knife to take over) are delivered in bite-sized morsels. They're wrapped in introductions to sushi history and technique, which are intriguing, but don't cut through the key issue: Ono's relentless perfectionism. As with last year's El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, human drama...
An apprentice to Jiro Ono can work for 10 years before the master starts calling him shokunin ("artisan"). "I made a dish 200 times," says one harried itamae. "When he told me I got it right I cried". The exacting standards of 86-year-old Ono, honed over 75 years, have earned him three Michelin stars, but it's his taciturn nature that both spices and sours David Gelb's minimalist documentary. Ono's views on food, his past (he was abandoned by his parents), his future (his oldest son Yoshikazu is sharpening his knife to take over) are delivered in bite-sized morsels. They're wrapped in introductions to sushi history and technique, which are intriguing, but don't cut through the key issue: Ono's relentless perfectionism. As with last year's El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, human drama...
- 1/11/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
It was hard to whittle down my favorite movie posters to a straight top ten this year. There was no absolute stand-out like Chris Ware’s Uncle Boonmee last year, and the majority of film posters continue to be depressingly rote and uninspired, even though the explosion of Diy illustration has started to make inroads into the world of commercial film promotion. As a symptom of my indecision I have tended to group posters together more than usual; laid out like this the year doesn’t look half bad.
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
- 1/5/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
★★☆☆☆ Getting to see the processes behind Heston Blumenthal's wacky culinary experiments on various television shows is something that many members of the public thoroughly enjoy. You might think then, that the chance to peek behind the scenes at a thee Michelin-starred restaurant in Catalonia, Spain, that is considered one of the finest purveyors of imaginative haute cuisine in the world would be equally as thrilling. Regrettably, German filmmaker Gereon Wetzel doesn't manage to wow the audience like the food on offer might in his documentary El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2011).
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- 9/24/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Dark Knight rose (sorry, that’s awful) to the top of the Box Office pile this weekend banking an incredible £14 million since its opening last Friday. This makes it the third highest grossing three-day opening behind Avengers Assemble and Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2. Both The Amazing Spider-Man and Ice Age 4 saw their taking tumble, dropping 73 and 79% respectively, and it’s difficult to see anything unseating Tdkr at the top of the chart for a fair few weeks yet.
Much like last time out, there’s fairly slim pickens out this weekend as the studios undoubtedly see the danger of releasing any of their movies during Tdkr’s first few weeks. Their blockbusters would have to share the market with a more powerful rival, and their mid-range major movies would simply be buried. As such, there are a fair number of smaller movies hoping to capture...
Much like last time out, there’s fairly slim pickens out this weekend as the studios undoubtedly see the danger of releasing any of their movies during Tdkr’s first few weeks. Their blockbusters would have to share the market with a more powerful rival, and their mid-range major movies would simply be buried. As such, there are a fair number of smaller movies hoping to capture...
- 7/28/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Dr Seuss' The Lorax (U)
(Chris Renauld, Kyle Balda, 2012, Us) Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Danny DeVito. 86 mins.
Dr Seuss's most environmentally minded story was a natural choice for movie treatment, but as with so many others (How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears A Who!), the temptation to "expand" on the original runs out of control. Seuss's elegant tale of a land where they paved paradise and cut down all the Truffula trees has been injected with all the compulsory gags, subplots, musical numbers and painfully bright landscapes that family animation is now deemed to require, making for an eco-tale that's packed with artificial additives.
Searching For Sugar Man (12A)
(Malik Bendjelloul, 2012, Swe/UK) 86 mins.
An inspiring documentary that successfully rehabilitates the reputation (and perhaps more) of Sixto Rodriguez, a 1970s Detroit troubadour who never found fame at home but unwittingly became huge in South Africa – where his...
(Chris Renauld, Kyle Balda, 2012, Us) Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms, Danny DeVito. 86 mins.
Dr Seuss's most environmentally minded story was a natural choice for movie treatment, but as with so many others (How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Horton Hears A Who!), the temptation to "expand" on the original runs out of control. Seuss's elegant tale of a land where they paved paradise and cut down all the Truffula trees has been injected with all the compulsory gags, subplots, musical numbers and painfully bright landscapes that family animation is now deemed to require, making for an eco-tale that's packed with artificial additives.
Searching For Sugar Man (12A)
(Malik Bendjelloul, 2012, Swe/UK) 86 mins.
An inspiring documentary that successfully rehabilitates the reputation (and perhaps more) of Sixto Rodriguez, a 1970s Detroit troubadour who never found fame at home but unwittingly became huge in South Africa – where his...
- 7/27/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s Friday, so you know what that means – another round-up of what films are hitting cinemas this weekend. With The Dark Knight Rises dominating the UK box office last week it seems no-one wants to put up a challenge to Christopher Nolan’s dark hero as only The Lorax is on a wide release this week. Just in time for the start of the summer holidays!
Nationwide Releases The Lorax
Dr. Seuss’ classic, environmentally themed children’s book comes to the big screen in this tale of a young boy who encounters a cantankerous forest creature after venturing outside of his artificial city in search of a tree. Ted (voice of Zac Efron) lives in a town where nothing is quite as it appears; everything is plastic, including the plants. Hopelessly smitten by the beautiful Audrey (voice of Taylor Swift), who dreams of one day seeing a real tree,...
Nationwide Releases The Lorax
Dr. Seuss’ classic, environmentally themed children’s book comes to the big screen in this tale of a young boy who encounters a cantankerous forest creature after venturing outside of his artificial city in search of a tree. Ted (voice of Zac Efron) lives in a town where nothing is quite as it appears; everything is plastic, including the plants. Hopelessly smitten by the beautiful Audrey (voice of Taylor Swift), who dreams of one day seeing a real tree,...
- 7/27/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
★★☆☆☆ Cuisine-concerned feature documentaries are few and far between, and on the evidence of Artificial Eye's El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2011), this is perhaps no real loss, so limited is the film in terms of niche appeal and visual flare. German director Gereon Wetzel admirably attempts to match the culinary experimentation on display with a similarly left-field, observational shooting approach. Sadly, what we're left with is a flat, drab presentation of a pedantic Blumenthal-esque chef and his besieged, highly-strung minions.
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- 7/26/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Dark Knight Rises (12A)
(Christopher Nolan, 2012, Us/UK) Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine. 164 mins
As big and dark and serious as The Avengers was big and light and fun, the climax to Nolan's Batman trilogy ticks most of the boxes it was demanded to – which is quite an achievement. There's an Occupy-style theme to baddy Bane's Gotham City lockdown, which forces Bruce Wayne to consider his 1% financial status and Batman to revive his punching and growling skills (prompted by Hathaway's slinky cat burglar). Some cheesy cliches (and questionable politics) are needed to tie it all together, but it's still the solid, epic finale you'd hoped for.
Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap (15)
(Ice-t, Andy Baybutt, 2012, UK/Us) 111 mins
The well-connected director calls on the biggest names in rap (Eminem, Q-Tip, Melle Mel, Snoop Dogg, etc), asks them a...
(Christopher Nolan, 2012, Us/UK) Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine. 164 mins
As big and dark and serious as The Avengers was big and light and fun, the climax to Nolan's Batman trilogy ticks most of the boxes it was demanded to – which is quite an achievement. There's an Occupy-style theme to baddy Bane's Gotham City lockdown, which forces Bruce Wayne to consider his 1% financial status and Batman to revive his punching and growling skills (prompted by Hathaway's slinky cat burglar). Some cheesy cliches (and questionable politics) are needed to tie it all together, but it's still the solid, epic finale you'd hoped for.
Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap (15)
(Ice-t, Andy Baybutt, 2012, UK/Us) 111 mins
The well-connected director calls on the biggest names in rap (Eminem, Q-Tip, Melle Mel, Snoop Dogg, etc), asks them a...
- 7/20/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
by Vadim Rizov
Despite its title, El Bulli: Cooking In Progress isn't so much a food documentary as a depiction of a refined industrial process. For foodie types, Ferran Adrià's three-Michelin-stars establishment is one of the most important homes of molecular gastronomy (or, as he defines it when imagining nervous diners' reactions, all that stuff using liquid nitrogen). For Adrià, semi-industrial hardware and unnatural-sounding additives are as essential as olive oil and fresh produce, tools rather than novelties. The food that comes out is not just highly visual—crackable, frail desserts, unusual foams, unnatural bulbous curves—but meant to taste like nothing you've experienced, with familiar ingredients prodded into new forms. Some people think it's pretentious gimmickry, but Adrià swears his only goal is to surprise and delight.
The theatrical release of Gereon Wetzel's stone-faced portrait of the titular Spanish restaurant's 2008-09 year is timed to coincide with...
Despite its title, El Bulli: Cooking In Progress isn't so much a food documentary as a depiction of a refined industrial process. For foodie types, Ferran Adrià's three-Michelin-stars establishment is one of the most important homes of molecular gastronomy (or, as he defines it when imagining nervous diners' reactions, all that stuff using liquid nitrogen). For Adrià, semi-industrial hardware and unnatural-sounding additives are as essential as olive oil and fresh produce, tools rather than novelties. The food that comes out is not just highly visual—crackable, frail desserts, unusual foams, unnatural bulbous curves—but meant to taste like nothing you've experienced, with familiar ingredients prodded into new forms. Some people think it's pretentious gimmickry, but Adrià swears his only goal is to surprise and delight.
The theatrical release of Gereon Wetzel's stone-faced portrait of the titular Spanish restaurant's 2008-09 year is timed to coincide with...
- 7/26/2011
- GreenCine Daily
Alive Mind Cinema will be releasing El Bulli: Cooking In Progress, the definitive documentary about Ferran Adrià and the boundless culinary creativity and uncompromising methodology he orchestrates at his gastronomical mecca: El Bulli. The film will open at New York.s Film Forum on July 27th, followed by a nationwide release to select cities.
El Bulli, the three-star Michelin restaurant located outside Barcelona in the Catalan province of Girona, has received the S. Pellegrino World.s 50 Best Restaurants Award five times in the last decade, and in 2010 Ferran Adrià was named the Chef of the Decade by the same organization. Adrià is deemed a brilliant innovator, the father of molecular gastronomy, and sometimes a crazy chef. Each year for six months he and his staff sequester themselves to concentrate on creating and testing the new culinary wonders that will become their next 30-course menu. (The restaurant accommodates only 50 for dinner,...
El Bulli, the three-star Michelin restaurant located outside Barcelona in the Catalan province of Girona, has received the S. Pellegrino World.s 50 Best Restaurants Award five times in the last decade, and in 2010 Ferran Adrià was named the Chef of the Decade by the same organization. Adrià is deemed a brilliant innovator, the father of molecular gastronomy, and sometimes a crazy chef. Each year for six months he and his staff sequester themselves to concentrate on creating and testing the new culinary wonders that will become their next 30-course menu. (The restaurant accommodates only 50 for dinner,...
- 5/26/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston) kicks off this Wednesday, and has a number of impressive films in its line-up. The festival will take place at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, and the Stuart Street Playhouse in downtown Boston. The festival, complete with over 110 film screenings, filmmaker Q&A sessions, panel discussions, visiting filmmakers, parties and events will showcase the best in current American and International cinema.
The opening night film of the festival is Being Elmo directed by Constance Marks will open the 9th annual festival on April 27th at the Somerville Theatre. This marks the first time the festival will open with a documentary. The film follows Kevin Clash, from humble upbringings as he follows his dream to become a puppeteer and one day work with his idol, Jim Henson, to the present day...
The opening night film of the festival is Being Elmo directed by Constance Marks will open the 9th annual festival on April 27th at the Somerville Theatre. This marks the first time the festival will open with a documentary. The film follows Kevin Clash, from humble upbringings as he follows his dream to become a puppeteer and one day work with his idol, Jim Henson, to the present day...
- 4/26/2011
- by Kristen Coates
- The Film Stage
The Independent Film Festival of Boston [1] recently released their full line-up and it's a doozy. Sundance favorites such as The Future [2] and Submarine [3] will be there, along with awesome documentaries like Being Elmo [4] (With Elmo In Attendance!!!) and Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times [5]. I'm looking forward to films I wasn't able to catch at Sundance and SXSW, such as the legal documentary Hot Coffee, the heartbreaking How to Die in Oregon, and the new fascinating Conan O'Brien film. Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins [6] also looks like it will rock the house. The full line-up is below. The festival is April 27th through May 4th, and it's one of my favorite movie events of the year. If you live anywhere in New England, I invite you to come and check it out. You can follow IFFBoston on Facebook for updates [7] or buy your passes now [8]! Narrative Features 13 Assassins...
- 3/25/2011
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
By most accounts, no chef has been as important to modern-day cuisine as Ferran Adrià, the wizard behind Catalonia’s El Bulli, generally considered the world’s greatest restaurant: open half the year, limited tables, booked months in advance. His complex, vivid, idea-driven, controversial cuisine has changed the way diners, critics, and chefs conceive of food’s possibilities. He gets under the skin of hard-line food conservatives by insisting that food’s limits should be pushed, always. In his book Ferran: The Inside Story Of El Bulli And The Man Who Reinvented Food, veteran food journalist Colman Andrews is generally ...
- 10/28/2010
- avclub.com
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