NYC Food Film Festival: George Motz's Favorite Food Films (VIDEOS)

Foodie film fans are in for a real treat at this year's NYC Food Film Festival.

Opening June 23rd and running through the 27th, the festival will host and recognize the best food-related films around. Entrants will be considered for Best Feature, Best Short, Best Super-Short, Best Film Made In New York, Food Filmmaker of the Year and the Audience Choice Award.

In honor of the festival, we've asked co-creator and Festival Director George Motz to give us a rundown of his ten favorite eats-oriented films.

Motz, also the man behind the award-winning documentary "Hamburger America", happily gave us some food for thought!

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Know Your Mushrooms

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Won the Feature Film award at our festival in 2009. This doc is a journey into the world of wild mushrooms. You will never look at mushrooms the same way.

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Won the Feature Film award at our festival in 2009. This doc is a journey into the world of wild mushrooms. You will never look at mushrooms the same way.

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[Don Giovanni]

09:53 AM on 06/15/2010

The Scent of Green Papaya?

[Don Giovanni]

09:53 AM on 06/15/2010

Mostly Martha?

[Don Giovanni]

09:46 AM on 06/15/2010

Dinner Rush?

[Don Giovanni]

09:45 AM on 06/15/2010

La Grande Bouffe?

[City of Evil]

12:17 AM on 06/14/2010

Pink Flamingos?

[SpikeC]

09:14 PM on 06/13/2010

How could they omit "Babet's Feast"????­?

[spytheweb]

09:37 PM on 06/12/2010

a great food movie is "Woman on top" with Penelope Cruz, very funny.

http://www­.imdb.com/­video/scre­enplay/vi6­3243033/

[liarsclub75]

06:02 PM on 06/12/2010

That young guy in Tampopo has beautiful skin. This looks like a cool movie.

[SpikeC]

09:13 PM on 06/13/2010

It is beyond cool in so many ways......­..........­...

[lakat]

12:05 PM on 06/12/2010

I love Tampopo and own it so I can enjoy it from time to time. It is about ramen noodles mainly but there are so many side stories all to tell us how important food is to us in many ways and it starts with a running story about a fancy ganster and his lover. So clever, and it's true, you will crave a beautiful bowl of ramen when it is over!

[Henchhana]

12:37 AM on 06/12/2010

I think they both in this picture maybe just look their food only or smell the food because if they eat , they could not smell.

[Ed Francis]

06:20 PM on 06/11/2010

My Dinner With Andre?

[berrynoir]

01:29 PM on 06/11/2010

I saw a documentar­y shown one night only this past winter in NYC called "The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World". It was a fascinatin­g film. Set in China, it focused not only on the daily doings of a restaurant feeding thousands (whether you left feeling hungry or queasy is a matter of how adventurou­s you are when it comes to food), but also on the Buddhist and Communist female owner of the restaurant and a group of the nouveau-ri­che in China. See it if you can!

[mostlyharmless]

12:55 PM on 06/11/2010

babette's feast is a glaring omission here . . . but, ah, tampopo . . . if you've never seen it, do rent it, and be sure to have some japanese soup noodles on hand before you hit play, or it will make you miserable

[nuzzybear]

10:30 AM on 06/11/2010

Sad shame to leave out "Like Water for Chocolate.­" Never was there a better recipe for mixing food, emotions, and sensuality on film.

[funkraider]

07:48 PM on 06/17/2010

I second that emotion, though A Cook, A Thief, His Wife, Her Lover was not only beautiful, but disturbing­, in a very good way!!!

[Peter Bury]

01:24 PM on 06/09/2010

Soylent Green???

Big Night and Tampopo come to mind when I think of food films, the rest, not so much. Mystic Pizza would be good on the list-- there is a scene where Julia Roberts eats lobster at her rich boyfriend'­s parents and she can't stand it because everyone she knows is in a lobster fishermen'­s family.