Screened as part of NZIFF 2015

City of Gold 2015

Directed by Laura Gabbert Framing Reality

This affectionate portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold is also a love letter to the culinary and cultural wonders of Los Angeles, from Beverly Hills fine dining to strip mall noodle joints and taco carts.

Aug 31

Lido Hamilton

Sep 07

Lido Hamilton

USA In English
89 minutes DCP

Director

Producers

Laura Gabbert
,
Holly Becker

Photography

Jerry Henry
,
Goro Toshima

Editors

Greg King
,
William Haugse

Music

Bobby Johnston

With

Jonathan Gold

Festivals

Sundance
,
SXSW
,
San Francisco 2015

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There’s no more loving, curious or infectious guide to the city of Los Angeles and its eateries than food critic Jonathan Gold. The first writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for reviewing restaurants, he’s less likely to point you to the hot and the hip than to the authentic, the unusual and the flavoursome. Reviewing street food and the tiny ethnic hybrids he discovers in strip malls and suburban neighbourhoods, he illuminates a wealth of cultural experience and culinary adventure. In a city teeming with options, he opens up new worlds for diners and owners alike.

“Here is a gentle, unassuming film, five years in the making: the filmmakers drove with LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold around the streets of Greater Los Angeles, from mini-malls in the San Gabriel Valley to downtown street vendors, providing a delicious portrait of a thriving city of immigrants. One comes away with a sense of a place with such a breadth of cultural diversity that the city’s reputation for vapidity is quickly buried… It’s a pleasure to ride shotgun on this journey.” — Vicki Robinson, Film Comment