Eating: A Very Serious Comedy About Women and Food [Paperback]

Henry Jaglom (Author), Sharon Lester (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1990

This volume contains the complete EATING screenplay along with a selection of stills from the film. These are highlighted by personal notes written by Henry Jaglom and most of the actresses in the film on the subject of food and eating. Touching and funny, sometimes outrageous, always illuminating, they lend an intimate, yet universal touch to this work. EATING deals with the complex issue of women and their unique and intense relationship to food...a tapestry of 38 specific women through whom we come to know and understand much more about this very complex phenomenon. As one of the women in the film says: I'm still trying to find a man who can excite me as much as a baked potato. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT: TheRainbowStore.com

Editorial Reviews

Review

Henry Jaglom is one of the most original directors around...His movies demand involvement...They are original and off-the-wall, full of surprises and full of life, movies not frightened of their own intelligence. --Jules Feiffer

EATING shines a bright refrigerator light on the secret, dark obsession of all women. With the national release of Henry Jaglom's film, the furtive mania of millions is being aired at last. Women leaving the theatre after seeing EAITNG can't stop talking about it - or themselves! --NEWSWEEK Magazine

Henry Jaglom knows something that's on the mind of every woman in America. --Village Voice

EATING shines a bright refrigerator light on the secret, dark obsession of all women. With the national release of Henry Jaglom's film, the furtive mania of millions is being aired at last. Women leaving the theatre after seeing EAITNG can't stop talking about it - or themselves! --NEWSWEEK Magazine

Henry Jaglom knows something that's on the mind of every woman in America. --Village Voice

About the Author

Henry Jaglom began his filmmaking career working with Jack Nicholson on the editing of Dennis Hopper's EASY RIDER, and made his writing/directing debut in 1971 with A SAFE PLACE, starring Tuesday Weld, Nicholson and Welles. His next film, TRACKS (1976) starred Hopper and was one of the earliest movies to explore the psychological cost on America of the Vietnam War. His third film, the first to be a commercial success, was SITTING DUCKS (1980), a comic romp that co-starred Zack Norman with Jaglom's brother Michael Emil. Film critic David Thomson said of Jaglom's CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE (1983) that it 'is an actors' film in that it grows out of their personalities - it is as loose and unexpected as life, but is shaped and witty as a great short story. In truth, a new kind of film...' It starred Karen Black. Jaglom also co-starred in four of his most personal films - ALWAYS, BUT NOT FOREVER (1985), SOMEONE TO LOVE (1987) starring Orson Welles in his farewell film performance, NEW YEAR'S DAY (1989), which introduced David Duchovny, and VENICE/VENICE (1992) opposite French star Nelly Alard. In 1990, Jaglom directed EATING (1990) about a group of women with eating disorders and how they cope with it and one another. BABYFEVER (1995), was about the issue of women with ticking biological clocks. Last Summer on the Hamptons (1996) was a Chekhovian look at the life of a theatrical family and starred Viveca Lindfors in her last screen role. DEJA VU (1998) was about the yearning of people trying to find their perfect soul mate and was the only film in which Vanessa Redgrave and her mother, Rachel Kempson, appeared together. FESTIVAL IN CANNES (2002) explored the lives and relationships of those involved in the world of filmmaking and was shot entirely at the Cannes International Film Festival. GOING SHOPPING (2005) explored that subject as the third part of Jaglom's 'Women's Trilogy', the others being EATING and BABYFEVER. HOLLYWOOD DREAMS (2007), dealt with a young woman's obsession with fame in the film industry and introduced Tanna Frederick, who then starred in Jaglom's IRENE IN TIME (2009), a look at the complex relationships between fathers and daughters and how it haunts some women for the rest of their lives. QUEEN OF THE LOT is Frederick's third film with Jaglom.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Rainbow Filmbooks; 1st Ed. edition (November 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878965018
• ISBN-13: 978-1878965011
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,693,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)