SLIFF 2014 – Tenacious Eats A HARD DAYS NIGHT ‘Movies for Foodies’ November 22nd

“The Beatles?…..Oh yes, I seem to recall their off-key caterwauling on the old Sullivan show”….Montgomery Burns

Cinema St. Louis teams up with the chefs over at Tenacious Eats for a one-of-a-kind movie/dining event! It’s a movies for Foodies night at SLIFF.   A HARD DAYS NIGHT is the film and the Centene Building is the location.  As  A HARD DAYS NIGHT unfolds, local celebrity chef Liz Schuster and her Tenacious Eats team cook and serve multiple courses with paired cocktails served byBeth Sorrell at Cocktails are Go. Ticket information can be found HERE Please note that tickets are not available for the film only.

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT was the Beatles’ first, and best, feature film of their career. Unlike the confused and confusing HELP! or the incredibly simplistic and message-oriented YELLOW SUBMARINE – in which the Beatles only appeared briefly — this film has sharp editing, good supporting characterization, and the good sense not to rely too much on the Beatles themselves for more than some good quips and great music.

Richard Lester’s compelling and innovative cinematography and editing underscores the fact that these four young Liverpool lads are going to change the world, well before they actually had begun to do so. Rather than making a throwaway flick for the fans, Lester crafted a minor masterpiece for rock and roll movies that has never been equalled or even attempted. The Beatles exploit their public personas to the max here — loverboy Paul, sardonic John, quiet and naive George, and cuddly Ringo. Wilfrid Brambell steals the show to the extent possible as Paul’s grandfather, “a real mixer” as Paul says, who seems to delight in starting fights and causing trouble.

On Saturday night, November 22nd, lucky St. Louisans will have the chance to see A HARD DAYS NIGHT and consume a five-course gourmet meal (with paired cocktails from Cocktails are Go) at the same time when it plays as part of Tenacious Eats ‘Movies for Foodies’ event that is part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. The location is the Centene Center for Arts & Education’s Rialto Ballroom Fourth Floor, 3547 Olive Street St. Louis, MO 63103. Doors open at 6pm.

Tickets are $65.00 each and can be purchased HERE

Movie for Foodies is a one-of-a-kind event where food is prepared and plated in front of you by Chef Liz Schuster and her crew of talented chefs while you watch a film on the big screen. Tenacious Eats only works with locally produced food procured by them and hard-to-find ingredients imported from places that specialize in them. For each new film, the folks at Tenacious Eats write a new menu specific to that movie’s story. Sometimes the menu is literal and sometimes it is inspired interpretation. In all cases, each dining experience is different because each film is different. By integrating film and food, Movies for Foodies creates an original experience, a feast for the senses, an event that brings food and film, chefs and diners together.