{"id":4365,"date":"2009-06-12T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2020-12-19T01:26:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:26:26","slug":"nyc-food-film-festival-water-taxi-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/4365\/nyc-food-film-festival-water-taxi-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coolest Free Dinner and a Movie Date Is At Water Taxi Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What:<\/strong> Films About Food (and Food From Films)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Where:<\/strong> Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City, Queens<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>When: <\/strong>Saturday, June 13 \u2013 Friday, June 19<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Why:<\/strong> These days the phrase \u201cdinner and a movie\u201d sends dollar signs a-rolling almost as quickly as \u201cOpera at the Met.\u201d Enter George Motz and Harry Hawk, whose <strong>NYC Food Film Festival<\/strong>, in its third year, is sure to satisfy all your cravings. Literally. The roster of more than 20 films to be screened includes <em>Buttermilk: It Can Help, Mr. Okra, and Eat or We Both Starve<\/em>. On the menu? Tastings of food shown in the films, such as mutton from the Chelsea hotspot RUB (during <em>Mutton: The Movie<\/em>, about Kentucky barbecue) and Clam Pie (for the movie by the same appetizing name).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The whole enterprise came about rather organically when burger-guru Hawk met filmmaker Motz (<em>Hamburger America<\/em>). \u201cI was opening up a new, but short-lived branch of Schnack, and we screened <em>Hamburger America<\/em>,\u201d said Hawk. \u201cThere were a few other screenings where George showed HA and I cooked burgers. We thought it would be a great idea if we could show other food movies and make other dishes.\u201d The pair\u2019s \u201cgreat idea\u201d has blossomed from a two-man show\u2014\u201c[Harry] was cooking burgers and food and George was working the projector, the lights, playing master of ceremonies\u201d\u2014to a full-blown festival, complete with staff and sponsors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Big or not, however, this is one of the coolest dinner and a movies you\u2019re likely to experience. And if that\u2019s not enough to whet your appetite, try this on for size. Admission is <em>free<\/em>\u2014and so are the tastings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How to get there:<\/strong> <em>Take Take the 7 train from Grand Central or Times Square. Second option, take the Water Taxi from 34th street to the beach for $5<\/em>. Visit nycfoodfilmfestival.com for a full schedule. (<a title=\"Water Taxi Beach\" href=\"http:\/\/watertaxibeach.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watertaxibeach.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Photos: Courtesy of YC Media<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: Films About Food (and Food From Films) Where: Water Taxi Beach, Long Island City, Queens When: Saturday, June 13 \u2013 Friday, June 19 Why: These days the phrase \u201cdinner and a movie\u201d sends dollar signs a-rolling almost as quickly as \u201cOpera at the Met.\u201d Enter George Motz and Harry Hawk, whose NYC Food Film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":15394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,749,314,4,839,806,329,326,805],"tags":[21,142,96,125,282,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-4365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts","8":"category-boat-2","9":"category-dining-nightlife","10":"category-events","11":"category-film-culture-2","12":"category-free-themes","13":"category-new-jersey-destination","14":"category-queens-outer-boroughs-destination","15":"category-romantic-themes","16":"tag-beach","17":"tag-festival","18":"tag-film","19":"tag-food","20":"tag-romantic","21":"tag-water-taxi"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":15394,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/images2.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}