Meatball And A Movie

Lasagna. High Hopes, 1988, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen and Edna Dore.  

Spaghetti and meatballs. Anora, 2024, written, directed, and edited by Sean Baker, starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, and Aleksei Serebryakov.

Spaghetti and meatballs. Hell's Heroes, 1929, directed by William Wyler, starring Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, and Fred Kohler. 3 Godfathers, 1948, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz and Harry Carey Jr. Both films are based on the 1913 novelette The Three Godfathers by Peter B. Kyne.

Spaghetti and Italian sausage (leftovers from last Sunday, still very good). Play It as It Lays, 1972, directed by Frank Perry from a screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Didion. The film stars Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.

Spaghetti with Italian sausage. Two-Lane Blacktop, 1971, directed by Monte Hellman, starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird. I first saw Two-Lane Blacktop during its initial theatrical run in 1971. I was wandering around the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington D.C. when I walked by an arthouse cinema - though I didn't know what 'arthouse cinema' was. I was 16 years old and had been brought up on Hollywood movies. The title, 'Two-Lane Blacktop," seemed to point toward a car chase movie, just the thing for me. This movie had that feature, but was completely different than the Hollywood-car-chase genre - in a good way. Two-Lane Blacktop introduced me to independent films. And it has remained one of my favorites for over a half century.