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Food Films: Videos
Where are Videos Located?
Unless marked Reserve, all videos are shelved with books. Follow the call numbers as you would for a book, and you will find the video on the shelves!
Call numbers A-N: 2nd Floor
Call numbers P-Z: 3rd Floor
If you cannot locate your video, go to the Help Desk on the second floor.
Viewing Videos at NCC
Many of the videos may be borrowed for seven days which means viewing at home! However, what if the video is in VHS format and you do not have a VHS player?
Fortunately, the NCC Library has a Media Reserve Room on the first floor of the Library. Room L102 has viewing equipment with built-in VHS and DVD players.
Locate your video in the Library collection and bring it down to L 102. You will be directed to a machine and given headphones if you do not have your own.
Food Films in the NCC Library
- Babette's FeastCall Number: Video PR6003 .L545 B32 7 Day LoanOn the desolate coast of Denmark, two elderly, religious women take in a young woman to be their housekeeper and cook, not knowing she is a superb French chef. When the chef, (who is never called upon to cook anything more complicated or mouth-watering than boiled codfish or soup), wins a large sum of money, she decides to spend it all creating a magnificent meal. VHS
- Eat Drink Man WomanCall Number: Video PN1997 .E36 1995 7 Day LoanA retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior. VHS
- ChocolatCall Number: Video PR6058.A68828 C46 2001 7 Day LoanWhen a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change. DVD
- Like Water for Chocolate/Como Agua Para ChocolateCall Number: Video PQ7298.15.S638 C6486 1994Romantic fantasy set in the early 20th century about a young couple blocked from marrying by the demands of her cold and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, and she expresses her passion for him through her cooking. VHS
- The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her LoverCall Number: Video PN1997 .C675 7 Day LoanSet in an indefinite future, this is an outrageous and satirical film about love, sex, food, power, murder and revenge. VHS
- Super Size MeCall Number: eo TX945.5.M33 S87 2004 7 Day LoanFilmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can’t eat or drink anything that isn’t on McDonald’s menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. DVD
- Eating RaoulCall Number: Video PN1995.9.C55 E284 1993 7 Day LoanMary and Paul Bland concoct a murderous scheme for supplementing their income. VHS
- Fried Green TomatoesCall Number: Video PS3556.L26 F7 1992 7 Day LoanA chance encounter in a nursing home between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian leads to an unexpected friendship. The story told of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago inspires the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results. VHS
- Eat Pray LoveCall Number: Video G154.5.G55 A3 2010 7 Day LoanA happily married woman who is trying to get pregnant realizes that her life needs to go in a new direction. After a very painful divorce, she risks everything and embarks on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. DVD
Food Films in NCC Library
- Pulp FictionCall Number: Video PN1995.9 .F54 P84 2002 7 Day LoanClever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers. DVD
- Soul FoodCall Number: Video PN1997.S676 2000 7 Day LoanSunday dinner at Mother Joe’s is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. DVD
- RatatouilleCall Number: Video PN1995.9.C55 R38 2007 7 Day LoanA rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero ultimately setting into motion a chain of extraordinary events that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. DVD
- Food, Inc.Call Number: Video HD9005 .F66 2009 7 Day LoanLifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. DVD
- MartyCall Number: Video PN1997 .M389 7 Day LoanMarty is a tender and heartwarming love story. A 34-year-old Brooklyn plain-looking butcher fears that he will never find love but at a Saturday night dance he meets a girl with similar fears. VHS
- Leaving Las VegasCall Number: Video PN1997 .L42 1996 7 Day LoanTwo people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever. VHS
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Phone: 516.572.7401
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Garden City, New York 11530
Phone: 516.572.7401
