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Showing posts with label FILMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FILMS. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2023

Film Review: Blind Ambition (2017) by Warwick Ross, Robert Coe, ****

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Synopsys Four Zimbabwean refugees who were forced to flee their home country in search of a better life become Africa's best and most un...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Film review: Bottle Shock (2008) by Randal Miller, ****

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Synopsis The build-up to the famous 1976 Judgement of Paris competition between French and Californian wines. Napa Valley 's Jim Barre...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Film Review: A seat at the table (2019) by David Nash and Simon Mark-Brown , **

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Synopsis A New Zealand winemaking team enters the period known as Vintage when wine is made 24/7 for months on end. Sleepless nights, endles...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Film review: Disrupting Wine (2020) by Johan Rimestad, ***

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Synopsys   Documentary about the founder of Vivino, Heini Zachariassen. Vivino has more than 43 million downloads worldwide and has its HQ i...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Film review: A Year in Burgundy (2013), by David Kennard, ***

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Synopsis The film follows Martine Saunier seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France through the course of a full year, an...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

Film review: Somm, into the Bottle (2015), by Jason Wise, ****

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Synopsis Sequel to the previous Somm movie of 2012 , this documentary takes the viewer into the private world of famed producers (who open ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Film review: Three Days of Glory (2018), by Scott Wright and David baker, ***

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Synopsis A documentary about the world's greatest wine celebration in the most legendary of wine regions during its most difficult seas...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Film review: Vintage (2019) by Colin West *

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Synopsis A New Zealand winemaking team enters the period known as Vintage when wine is made 24/7 for months on end. Sleepless nights, endles...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Film review: The Barolo Boys (2014) by Paolo Casalis and Tiziano Gaia, ****

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The story of a group of Barolo producers , friends, colleagues and competitors at the same time, who broke with tradition to find their own ...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Film review: Somm (2012) by Jason Wise, ****

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Review Four sommeliers attempt to pass the prestigious Master Sommelier exam, a test with one of the lowest pass rates in the world.  The do...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Scammer 2.0 - Rudy Kurniawan The Wine Forger

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A documentary about Rudi Kurniawan , the most notorious wine forger of recent times. A warning to all wine lovers and collectors. He duped e...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Film review: Résistence naturelle (2014), By Jonathan Nossiter, **

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Synopsys Ten years after the landmark wine documentary Mondovino, filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter returns to the subject, documenting the dras...
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Saturday, April 4, 2020

Film review: L'Esprit du vin (2011) by Olympe and Yvon Minvielle **

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Synopsys A film sponsored by Château Lagarette , a biodynamic producer in Bordeaux. A dozen or so biodynamic wine-growers express thei...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Film review: Sideways (2004) by Alexander Payne, *****

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Synopsis Comedy drama which follows Miles ( Paul Giamatti ), an unsuccessful novelist, and Jack ( Thomas Haden Church ), an equally un...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

Film review: Mondovino (2004) by Jonathan Nossiter, **

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Synopsis Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter, who loves wine, looks at the international wine business. He offers his personal view of how business ...