New film 'Sparkling: the story of Champagne' to release
Featuring actor Stephen Fry and all-star cast of wine producers...
Wine films
There are several well-known films based on the drinking or making of wine or the wine industry itself. They range from American comedy-drama Bottle Shock (featuring Alan Rickman as wine expert Steven Spurrier), buddy-movie Sideways and book adaptation A Good Year to smaller pictures such as the controversial Mondovino, mockumentary Corked and French hit Vagabond.
Individual wines have also featured on the big screen including Chateau Margaux in Withnail & I and Sherlock Holmes, Chateau Latour in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, Chateau Angelus in James Bond Casino Royale and Veuve Clicquot in Casablanca.
In May 2012 it was announced The Billionaire’s Vinegar is to be turned into a motion picture starring Brad Pitt.
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Somm 3 film review: How it compares to the first two
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Third Somm film has all-star cast, says director
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Netflix to release Napa-based Wine Country movie
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Back to Burgundy - Film review
A tale of family and land politics in Burgundy wine...
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New TV drama 'Connoisseur' to focus on fake fine wine - report
Star Trek actor John Cho to star, say reports
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Rudy Kurniawan film Sour Grapes gets first airing
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Actors Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys star in new wine show
The Wine Show will be aired on ITV this spring...
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Interview: Sideways play to open in London in 2016
Sideways the play will debut in London in summer 2016...
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Gérard Depardieu stars in new French wine film
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Wine in films quiz
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Somm: Into the Bottle - film review
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New wine movie to open Napa Valley film festival
A new wine film claiming to 'raise the curtain' on how wine is produced is set to open the Napa Valley film festival this year.
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Jefford on Monday: Screen Truths
The relationship between wine and the screen (whether full, wide or small) is an uneasy one. Watching people taste wine, then talk about it with the kind of animation required to keep tv viewers hooked, is agony. There's nothing visually interesting about any act of viticulture or winemaking. The 'promotional film' is as tedious as the promotional anything. Most wine video clips tell you little, and do so less incisively than a page of text.
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Sideways author sets sights on Broadway as chances of film sequel diminish
Rex Pickett’s play of his film Sideways is a step closer to Broadway after he recruited award-winning director Des McAnuff, but prospects for a big-screen sequel remain small.
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New film features 'Outsiders' in Languedoc
A new film following the fortunes of 12 Languedoc-Roussillon winemakers is released next month.
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Film review: Somm
SOMM, the 2012 Napa Valley Film Festival’s headlining film and debut feature from director Jason Wise, attempts to pull back the curtain on the mysterious Master Sommelier Exam.
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Interview: Dustin Wilson, wine director of Eleven Madison Park
Dustin Wilson is wine director for Eleven Madison Park, one of an elite group of restaurants in New York to hold both three Michelin stars, and four stars from the New York Times. He is one of the four sommeliers entering the Master Sommelier Exam featured in the new wine film, Somm.
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A Year in Burgundy: film review
I have to confess I didn’t expect great things of A Year in Burgundy, chiefly because the director, David Kennard, told me the title was a deliberate nod to Peter Mayle’s notorious A Year in Provence, that benchmark for patronising the French – garlic, berets and all.
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Sideways 2 film unlikely, says author
Sideways author Rex Pickett says director Alexander Payne fears making a sequel to the hit 2004 film will be 'selling out'.
