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60 of 106 · most liked firstThey're remaking "Babette's Feast", the 1987 Oscar winning Danish film based on the classic short story by Isak Dinesen, as "Mencia's Feast" but producers are keeping fastidiously mum about who they will cast in the titular role.
neutral · AI labelView post →For this week's Bitter Kitten Movie Club, we're diving into director Gabriel Axel's Oscar-winning gustatory classic BABETTE'S FEAST. Is it about food? Death? Jesus? Maybe! But also no. tomandlorenzo.com/2026/06/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Isak Dinesen (with scenes from the film "Babette's Feast" adapted from her story of the same name) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Isak Dinesen (with scenes from the film "Babette's Feast" adapted from her story of the same name) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →i suspect the author, like me, isn't someone who naturally gravitates towards/enjoys cozy fantasy, which is probably why the main comparison here is the movie Babette's Feast (!) instead of a Miyazaki film or [insert better example]. but i don't get any hint of "why wasn't this cupcake a burger?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh no! He was a wonderful composer. Although he mostly composed concert pieces, he also wrote some fine film music including the score of one of my favorite films: BABETTE'S FEAST.
positive · AI labelView post →YES, YOU MIGHT :D Definitely would be worth a revisit. For anyone else looking for a food-centric film pick-me-up, Tampopo would work great alongside The Taste of Things, Big Night, Babette's Feast, and The God of Cookery. All fantastico. 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Isak Dinesen (with scenes from the film "Babette's Feast" adapted from her story of the same name) - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazing how quickly things have changed. I was in middle school (mid-90s) when I saw my first foreign film, Babette's Feast. In the late 90s, early 00s, non-English films were still relatively obscure "arthouse," give or take an international hit like Amelie 1/?
neutral · AI labelView post →#OscarsMonth #filmsky #moviesky Day 2- B Babette's Feast Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
neutral · AI labelView post →Kansas City! I'll be at the Plaza Branch of @kclibrary.bsky.social this Sunday, talking about Babette's Feast, which makes a small appearance in Films for all Seasons. I'll also be selling and signing books 😉.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover ending. There's no other answer. Babette's Feast? Fine. Big Night? Okay. Even The Menu. Whatever. Cook, Thief, Wife, Lover is the best food film ever made.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast, maybe... the most healing movie I've ever seen in my life? I'm talking, "Oh, this could restore your faith in humanity" levels of healing.
positive · AI labelView post →I don't think cosy fantasy is inherently reactionary or ignores these things or can't challenge darkness. Babette's Feast is a good example. As is pretty much every Ghibli film But the stuff being pushed by publishers seems to largely fall into that bracket and we need to be at least aware of that
neutral · AI labelView post →My 10 Favorite Films, for now. (Alphabetical, 1 per director.) Babette's Feast Blade Runner* Raiders of the Lost Ark Raising Arizona Star Wars: ESB The Muppet Movie The New World The Son 3 Colors: Blue Wings of Desire *Or Midnight Run/Do the Right Thing/Vertigo/Moonrise Kingdom/Totoro #filmsky 🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Gabriel Axel's film of BABETTE'S FEAST infallibly makes me happy. Based on a wonderful short story by Isak Dinesen, this is a film about profound decency.
positive · AI labelView post →Tom's Place in Southern Illinois - technically it closed after the COVID peak, but it had been struggling for years. The co-owner/chef, Lasse Sorensen, was a chef for the movie “Babette's Feast”. When our kids were little, it was a real treat to be able to eat such amazing food near our home.
neutral · AI labelView post →'Babette's Feast' (Danish: Babettes Gæstebud) (1987) 💙 Directed by Gabriel Axel. The screenplay was written by Gabriel Axel, based on the (1958) story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen).
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie years project Year 1987 (78/122) Now Watching 📽️ #10/14 Babette's Feast dir. Gabriel Axel rec'd by @stevequick.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Wise choice. Babette's Feast is one of my favorite movies, which is why I was so enraged by her contorting its themes to plug her shit movie. Of course Ben just nods along. #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →1. Chef (2014) - probably my favorite food film of all time... 2. Mostly Martha (2001) 3. Babette's Feast (1987) #OurDailyThread🃏🧵 #TwamilyTag🃏🏷️
neutral · AI labelView post →Babette's Feast. As the ideal comfort movie. My comfort anime has turned out to be One-Punch Man. And I can't explain why it is, but I'm not going to write an article about why only the truly erudite and enlightened would agree with me.
positive · AI labelView post →#filmsky #letterboxd #movies 📽️ What's an older movie you only saw for the first time recently that you really liked? I keep thinking about Babette's Feast (1987) which I only saw for the first time a few weeks ago. I just really love the premise and the last half hour.
positive · AI labelView post →i love it too. have you ever seen Babette's Feast? really lovely, quiet film about food and art and connection
neutral · AI labelView post →You have about ten minutes to vote. What movie do I watch while I wait to repose the Blessed Sacrament? The Prince of Egypt Babette's Feast other (I welcome suggestions)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just think of the ending of the movie "Big Night", one of two great films about food and love (the other being "Babette's Feast" and there are many more, I know)
neutral · AI labelView post →Babette's Feast is the best treatment of the mystery of the Lord's Supper I think I've ever seen. Also, probably my favorite movie all-time.
positive · AI labelView post →You know what I'm adding two more stellar films about faithful Catholics, then one classic "Protestant" film. Of Gods and Men - 9 monks in 1990s Algeria. Inspiring. A Hidden Life - incredible film Protestants "have" Babette's Feast - sure, a weird break off sect in Denmark but we'll take it #hatm
neutral · AI labelView post →Babette's Feast is a comfort movie for me (have not read the story it's based on yet) but holy fuck its appeal is very much not universal.
neutral · AI labelView post →• 1: Babette's Feast (1987). I cannot stress this enough: but if you never need to watch a film that will rekindle your faith in humanity, that shows how despite our capacity for war and violence there is space for love, grief and *transformation,* Babette's Feast is right there.
positive · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie adaptation from a novel? Not from a novel, but from a short story: "Babette's Feast." No contest.
unlabelledView post →#MovieChallenge 2026 week 39: Babette's Feast (1987) It's got two of my favourite things to see depicted in film: huge platters of delicious food, and religious ascetics learning to chill the fuck out. 4/5
unlabelledView post →I am still stewing over the complete and total bullshit Maggie Gyllenhaal spewed about Babette's Feast. She obviously made it up to promote her crap Frankenstein movie nobody liked which is a damn insult to a gorgeous and tender work of art.
unlabelledView post →Watching "Babette's Feast"; I'd forgotten how sad & how handsome it was. It's another movie where you really believe you're watching people from a different time. You can have Art or Protestantism but not both. Now the lonely single woman can be the preacher & not just the preacher's daughter.
unlabelledView post →Jury's out on whether Babette's Feast is a New Year's Eve movie or not (maybe in some messed up old calendar?) but I just watched it for the first time and feel reborn, at least a little.
unlabelledView post →Babette's Feast is an overlooked holiday movie.
unlabelledView post →... Now I'm nostalgic- Watching Babette's Feast, for the first time, with @doriandawes.bsky.social, on Christmas Eve, snuggled up on the couch? Wrapped together in a duvet? We ended that movie profoundly moved, and to tears, at that. God, good times, eh, babe?
unlabelledView post →a thing i considered talking about in this piece but didn't: when that "cozy fantasy" essay was floating around, so many people made fun of the author for... saying that their favorite comfort movie was Babette's Feast? i haven't seen it, but by all accounts, it's literally just a normal movie???
unlabelledView post →You've inherited a movie theater - What's your first double feature? "Babette's Feast" and "Gattaca"
unlabelledView post →Triple Feature, and the theater HAS to have a full kitchen. Babette's Feast, East Side Sushi, and Tampopo.
unlabelledView post →I'm too much of a Philistine to have a Letterboxd account, but here's the last four I've watched. -The Fall Guy: Average -The Wild Robot:Mediocre -Babette's Feast: Okay for an art film -The Colors Within: Fantastic
unlabelledView post →Week 2 of #criterionchallenge2025 prompt was a movie released in your birth year. So for my spouse (1987) we watched Babette's Feast. So good. Slow. Funny. Adam loved the low stakes.
unlabelledView post →Tonight on TCM #TCM BABETTE'S FEAST (1987) Brilliant Danish film from the 1980s. 🎥
unlabelledView post →#DailyStream: a celebratory movie for when you want to feel festive but not Christmassy. 1987’s #BabettesFeast is a gentle tale of sacrifice and giving that is very much in tune with both the story of Christ and the gustatory joys of the Christmas season. #Max US, #CurzonHomeCinema UK
unlabelledView post →#Bales2023FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon May 24th- Someone prepares food for someone else Babette's Feast (1987) Directed by Gabriel Axel Babette is a refugee who has been taken in by two strictly religious women (daughters of the village's late pastor) and serves as servant to them. When she happens on a windfall, she decides to use it to prepare a feast unlike anything the village has ever seen. #BabettesFeast #StephaneAudran #GabrielAxel #DanishCinema
unlabelledView post →I had no idea she wrote Babette's Feast! Thank you for the that. I think 'Out of Africa' is my favorite film.
unlabelledView post →Yes. An honourable life and commitment to pacifism. And the cinematography! I loved how quiet much of the film was (which reminded me of another beautiful classic, Babette's Feast.) Who needs dialogue when the visuals say so much?
unlabelledView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - Phantom of the Paradise 80s - Babette's Feast 90s - Eyes Wide Shut 00s - Punch-Drunk Love maybe? 10s - The Tree of Life 20s - Poor Things Really makes it evident to me how much my favourite movies are clustered in the 60s, 90s, & 10s
unlabelledView post →Guy who has only seen Babette's Feast, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Babette's Feast' vibes from this.
unlabelledView post →Babette's Feast. A moving, joyous, austerely beautiful gem of a movie.
unlabelledView post →Today's good is spending time with friends. We host a January film day with a general theme (this year the theme was food - Soylent Green, Babette's Feast, and The Menu). Lots of fun was had, good food was eaten and the 3 films worked well together. Would recommend!
unlabelledView post →Ooh, strongly cosigned! Isak Dinesen (the pen name of Karen Blixen) was truly wonderful. She wrote the miraculous "Babette's Feast" which was also adapted into a very good film.
unlabelledView post →Would like to catch 2 of the foreign movies airing on TCM today, Mon Oncle for the comedy and Babette's Feast, the movie which Alton Brown called the greatest food movie ever made on his Hot Ones interview #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →Love this review by Colin Burgess. Sums it up perfectly! A ★★★★★ review of Babette's Feast by Colin Burgess on Letterboxd boxd.it/ThYZ3
unlabelledView post →She was wondrous. For me, Chabrol is the most fun Nouvelle Vague director because he's so unabashedly misanthropic but he also loves his characters and the audience always cares what will happen next. She was also luminous in Gabriel Axel's BABETTE'S FEAST, a film that infallibly makes me happy.
unlabelledView post →Book: Tehanu, Leguin Movie: Babette's Feast Album: Dream of Life, Patti Smith TV: Succession I admit I picked them with the election in mind. But love them all.
unlabelledView post →Babette's Feast is the rare movie that reliably makes me laugh crying
unlabelledView post →He's also got a film review section (this week: Giant Spider Invasion and Planet of the Apes) and I'm encouraging him in the next edition to give a critical appraisal of Babette's Feast which he inexplicably watched over the weekend.
unlabelledView post →John Waters and David Lynch find it almost impossible to get backing nowadays. John Sayles hasn't directed a film in a decade. I can't imagine a moment when a film like Babette's Feast plays for months and months at a college theater, as it did in Minneapolis in 1988.
unlabelledView post →Non-Ghibli - Holy Motors I need to watch again, but I think it still holds up. It's a great ride. And I think Babette's Feast is not only one of my favorite non-American films but also my favorite food movie? It made me cry watching people eat grapes when I had my wisdom teeth removed, so you know
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