Meatball And A Movie

Spaghetti and meatballs. The Maltese Falcon, 1941, directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and Elisha Cook Jr. Special aftershow performance by the Mad City Ski Team.  

Lasagna. Whiplash, 2014, directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, and Melissa Benoist.

Lasagna. C.R.A.Z.Y., 2005, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, written by Jean-Marc Vallée and François Boulay, starring Marc-André Grondin, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Michel Côté and Danielle Proulx.

Lasagna The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001, directed by Wes Anderson, written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, starring Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson.

Lasagna Red Rocket, 2021, directed by Sean Baker, written by Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch, starring Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, and Suzanna Son.

Lasagna Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine, 2019, a documentary directed by Scott Crawford, written by Scott Crawford Jaan Uhelszki, produced by JJ Kramer. Really, scores of people worked - beginning with a Kickstarter - to bring this documentary to the screen. Rolling Stone was San Francisco. Creem was Detroit. See what I'm saying?

Lasagna Al Forno High and Low (Japanese: 天国と地獄), 1963, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Isao Kimura, Takeshi Katō, Yutaka Sada, and Tsutomu Yamazaki.

Spaghetti and meatballs from Strada at the University of Wisconsin Union. Go, 1999, written by John August, directed by Doug Liman, starring William Fichtner, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, Sarah Polley, and Scott Wolf.

Spaghetti and meatballs from Strada at the University of Wisconsin Union. Atlantic City, 1980, directed by Louis Malle, screenplay by John Guare, starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, and Al Waxman.

Spaghetti and meatballs from Strada at the University of Wisconsin Union. Enchanted, 2007, directed by Kevin Lima, written by Bill Kelly, starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel and Susan Sarandon, narrated by Julie Andrews. There are so many great comedic takes in this movie, all without being the least bit mean.

 Lasagne Alla Bolognese from Osteria Papavero. Anatomy of a Murder, 1959, directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, George C. Scott, Arthur O'Connell and Joseph N. Welch.  

Lasagna from Whole Foods. Tick, Tick... Boom!, 2021, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Written by Steven Levenson, based on the stage musical of the same name by Jonathan Larson. Starring Andrew Garfield, Robin de Jesús, Alexandra Shipp, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, and Vanessa Hudgens. This story about creating musical theater reminded me of another film in that genre, so I also watched ... Topsy-Turvy, 1999, written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert and Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan, along with Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville and Ron Cook. The story concerns the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

Lasagna from Gino's Italian Deli American Fiction, 2023, written and directed by Cord Jefferson, starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody and Keith David. Abstract cubist (?) spaghetti and meatballs. This is an AI generated image.

Spaghetti and meatballs from Strada at the University of Wisconsin Union. Ferrari, 2023, directed by Michael Mann, starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz.  

Spaghetti and meatballs from Strada at the University of Wisconsin Union. Predator, 1987, directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura and other Hollywood musclemen.

Spaghetti and meatballs from Strada at the University of Wisconsin Union. The Parallax View, 1974, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss.

Spaghetti and meatballs from Strada at the University of Wisconsin Union. The Holdovers, 2023, directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson, starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa.

Lasagna from Gino's Italian Deli. Anatomy of a Fall, 2023, directed by Justine Triet, starring Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth, Saadia Bentaieb, Camille Rutherford, Anne Rotger, and Sophie Fillières. And Messi the dog as Snoop. Messi won the Palm Dog at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

Spaghetti and meatballs. Killers of the Flower Moon, 2023, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone.  

Spaghetti and meatballs. Atlantics, 2019, directed by Mati Diop, starring Ibrahima Traoré, Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Nicole Sougou, Aminata Kane, Mariama Gassama, Coumba Dieng, Ibrahima Mbaye and Diankou Sembene.

Spaghetti and meatballs. The Ventures: Stars On Guitars, 2020, a documentary directed by Staci Layne Wilson. I've been on a surf music bender for the past week. During an interview, two members of the Surfrajettes mentioned this documentary, so I took it for a spin. (The Surfrajettes are a surf music tribute girl group, one of at least four surf music tribute girl groups I've come across during my YouTube wanderings.)

Spaghetti and meatballs. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, 1975, written and directed by Chantal Akerman, starring Delphine Seyrig and Jan Decorte.

Spaghetti and meatballs. Invisible Adversaries, 1977, directed by Valie Export, starring Susanne Widl and Peter Weibel.

Lasagna. Certain Women, 2016, directed by Kelly Reichard, starring Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, James Le Gros, Jared Harris and René Auberjonois.

Pizza from Lucille, Madison Wisconsin. The Day the Earth Caught Fire, 1961, directed by Val Guest, starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro.

Spaghetti and meatballs. Bad Day at Black Rock, 1955, directed by John Sturges, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin.

Lasagna. Rear Window, 1954, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr.

Pasta from Osteria Papavero, Madison Wisconsin. Here's how it was described on their menu: House-made cotechino tortelli, rabbit, beef & pork bolognese ragout, grana cheese. Oppenheimer, 2023, directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Spaghetti and meatballs. Beautiful City, 2004, directed by Asghar Farhadi, starring Taraneh Alidoosti, Faramarz Gharibian, Babak Ansari and Hossein Farzi-Zad.

Spaghetti and meatballs. Dancing in the Dust, 2003, directed by Asghar Farhadi, starring Yousef Khodaparast, Faramarz Gharibian and Baran Kosari.