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Cooking Up Dreams (Trailer) - Ollas y Sueños!

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Cooking Up Dreams (Trailer) - Ollas y Sueños:  This excellent documentary about the Peruvian Cuisine movement and the hottest food trend world-wide over the last few years was released last Fall in Lima, Peru.  It will premiere for the first time in the U.S. this weekend in New York, Chicago, Texas and Toronto.  This movie is about the 500 years of cultural mixture or miscegenation (not fusion) of Peru with respect to it's rich gastronomical history, culture, migration, and it's various foods and cuisines within the country and abroad.     

San Francisco Chronicle's SF Gate quote - "NO CON-FUSION HERE: "The very first place there was fusion cuisine was Peru." -- Chef Patricio Gaston Herrera, relating how New World and Old World cuisines melded nearly 500 years ago with arrival of "invaders" -- the Spanish."

The premiere will take place on Saturday April 17, 2010 at the Havana Film Festival in Manhattan, New York, an important showcase for Latin American cinema.  I've seen this excellent film about Peru & Peruvian Cuisine. It is a must see!!!!

Details of Cooking Up Dreams (Trailer) - Ollas y Sueños:

Feature Documentary: "Cooking Up Dreams" Original title: De Ollas y Sueños

Directed by: Ernesto Cabellos

Produced by: Televisión América Latina (TAL) and Guarango Association

Format: HDV 1080i60 Release date: August 2009 (Lima, Peru)

Images of Peruvian Cuisine and the international & domestic chefs in the documentary:

"Mesa de Chefs" (The Chefs Table)

 

   

 

Picture of Teresa Izquierdo (Afro-Criollo Peruvian Cuisine), Gaston Acurio (Haute-Peruvian Cuisine), and Hector Solis (traditional Criollo Peruvian Cuisine).

Bernardo Roca Rey - restaurateur, local newspaper owner, and one of the founders of the "Novo Andino" (New Andean) cuisine movement in Peru and abroad dating back to the early-1980s.

 

Peru is the birthplace of the potato.  The Ancient Peruvians (pre-Inca civilizations) cultivated and domesticated the potato almost 10,000 years ago.  Of the roughly 4,500 varieties of potatoes on Earth, 3,000 are indigenous to Peru.  

Ernesto Cabello - Peruvian film director of Ollays y Sueños (Cooking Up Dreams)

Johnny Schuler - Pisco (Peruvian Brandy) ambassador, President of the Peruvian Pisco Association, TV personality, Pisco entrepreneur, and big investor of the U.S. Pisco market.  

In Peru, there are hundreds of variety of "Choclo" (Peruvian corn).

 

The world famous "Choclo Blanco Gigante de Cuzco" (giant Peruvian white corn of Cusco).  The delicious  "Choclo Cusco" is the biggest corn in the world, they grow abundantly around the Valley of the Incas.

 
Top celebrity chefs leading the Peruvian Cuisine world conquest movement - Peru's Toshiro Konishi (Peruvian-Japanese Mixed Cuisine called "Nikkei"), Spain's Juan Mari Arzak (haute Spanish-Basque Cuisine), and Peru's Gaston Acurio.

Peru's Gaston Acurio - The #1 celebrity chef in all Latin America, owner of La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, Astrid y Gaston, & Tanta restaurant brand, TV personality, and leader of the Peruvian Cuisine movement world-wide. 

 

Ferran Adria (haute Spanish Molecular Cuisine) - The #1 celebrity chef in the world, owner of Bulli (highest Michelin rated restaurant in the world), and now follower of Peru's Gaston Acurio and Pedro Miguel Schiaffino.  

Pedro Miguel Schiaffino - Leader of Peru's haute Amazonian Cuisine movement, chef professor, and owner of Malabar in San Isidro, Peru (Food & Wine Magazine's 4th best bar in the world).

  

Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa!

Jack Bauer brutally threatens Santa Claus!  Santa turns the table on him, "And How"!!  GO SANTA!!!

Worldwide Release Date - December 18, 2009 - Avatar Trailer!

From the director of the "Titanic" - The official trailer of James Cameron's Avatar!   Release date - December 18, 2009 Worldwide.

Screen shot

 

Night Of The Living Dead (1968) - Full Movie!

Okay Trick O Treaters,

If you are not going out and are staying in for the night, well here is a Halloween treat for you. The 1968 original classic in its entirety - Night Of The Living Dead!!!!

The entire movie is here?!  This film is in fact in the public domain.  Nobody owns the copyright.  The original distributor actually neglected to copyright it.  Can you believe that??  NO film company now would EVER make such a mistake....

 

 

 

Creepiest Movie Intro Music - "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951)!

Here is the creepiest and most unusual music scoring of the sci-fi classic - "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951). This is the opening of the film without dialogue, the score included electric violin, electric bass, 2 theremins* (treble & bass), test oscillators, vibraphone, 4 pianos, 4 harps & approximately 30 brass instruments.  Unusual overdubbing & tape-reversal techniques were used as well.

The film music composer of this score Bernard Herrmann (1911-75) is particularly known for the scores of Alfred Hitchcock's films (such as Psycho), he also composed notable scores for many other movies (such as Citizen Kane & Taxi Driver), radio broadcast & TV programs.  His music is typified by frequent use of ostinati (short repeating patterns), novel orchestration & an ability to portray character traits not altogether obvious from other elements of the film.  In the last years of Herrmann's life he did much to create interest in film scores as a form of music worthy of appreciation & performance.

 
 

Halloween - Moe's Death Scream!

Here is something for Halloween.  Moe 's death scream when he got terrified in "Spook Louder"!!!.   

Forrest Gump In One Minute, In One Take - Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates!

Forest Gump - "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get!"

007 James Bond's "Quantum Of Solace" U.S. Premiere - Latin American Theme | Filmed In Chile | Peruvian Songs In Soundtrack

"Quantum of Solace" is the 22nd edition of EON Productions and Ian Fleming's British secret agent - 007 James Bond. This current edition showcases exotic locations in Italy, Baja California Mexico, Panama, and Austria.  But almost half the movie was shot at Atacama in Northern Chile, South America (not in Bolivia as the movie indicates).  Atacama is a large desert between Peru, Chile, and Boliva - it is the driest desert in the world, it has never rained in recorded human history!!!   

The movie was originally scheduled to have spectacular scenes filmed at the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco, Peru.  But due to bad weather this past March, the Cuzco filming were canceled. 

Quantum of Solace has a predominantly South American theme in film locations, storyline, and music with three Peruvian fusion songs in the movie's soundtrack.

English actor Daniel Craig, the current James Bond, speaks a little Spanish and has indicated in a recent interview with an Argentine newspaper that he wants to visit Peru. 

Diario Correo - Daniel Craig: Me gustaría ir a Perú

From The Sunday Times of London, England - Luxury locations: Quantum of Solace 

007 Quantum Of Solace - In U.S. Theaters Friday, November 14, 2008

007 James Bond - Quantum Of Solace Behind The Scenes 1 of 2

007 James Bond - Quantum Of Solace Behind The Scenes 2 of 2

From Peru - The record/album of Jaime Cuadra in the new James Bond movie.  "Desde Peru - EL Disco De Jaime Cuadra En Nuevo La Pelicula De James Bond."

 

Description of the video below:  "Cholo Soy", Peruvian Waltz Chill Out.  From the Quechua of Peru, this is a popular song in Peru and the rest of South America about being "Cholo" which expresses a strong sense of cultural pride among people who are predominantly of indigenous stock or race in South America, especially the Andean countries. 

Jaime Cuadra and his music have been a huge sensation in Peru since 2006, when he released "Cholo Soy," which mixed creole music, vals (waltz, Peruvian style), festejo (Afro Peruvian) and marinera (Northern Peru & Lima-based music) with electronic chillout tracks.

Jaime Cuadra (born in Lima, Peru on November 26, 1970) musician, producer and Peruvian audiovisual communicator. In October 2008, 3 songs from his album Cholo Soy, Peruvian Waltz Chill Out, were included in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.

New York Post Nov 12, 2008 - Peruvian Musician Scores Three Songs In New James Bond Flick

Pictures & Posters of 22nd release of 007 James Bond in "Quantum Of Solace":

 

   

 

 

Paul Newman 1925-2008 - Screen Test With James Dean | Cool Hand Luke Car Wash | Life Tribute!

Hollywood legend Paul Newman (1925 - 2008) past a way last Friday, Sept 26th.  Here are some very interesting video clips of one of the greatest movie actors of the last 55 years.  He was married twice, first with Jackie Witte (1949 - 1958), and then with accomplished Hollywood actress Joanna Woodward (1958 - 2008).  He was married to Woodward for 50 years, in Hollywood!!!

Here is a very rare clip of 30 year old Paul Newman in a 1955 Hollywood screen test for "East of Eden" with a very young James Dean.

Famous scene in the 1967 classic "Cool Hand Luke" of Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Joy Harmon (the sexy blond) - Car Wash!

1967 Cool Hand Look poster.

Joy Harmon in Cool Hand Luke.

A tribute to Paul Newman.

 

A biography of Paul Newman on the Biography Channel.

 

 

PS.  Paul Newman, may you rest in peace.....