Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, November 26: MEAT HOOKED!
Suzanne Wasserman’s exploration of butchering and its recent resurgence debuted at the NYC Food Film Festival last year. It went on to screen at the Miami and Vermont film festivals, and to be broadcast on PBS’s America ReFramed series. FilmBuff now makes the doc available on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, Xbox Video, Sony PlayStation, Cinemanow and Vudu.
Wasserman offers a look at modern day butchering, primarily focusing on four amiable New York City butchers – Essex Street Market’s Jeffrey Ruhalter, Chelsea Market’s Jacob Dickson, and Fleisher’s Organic and Grass-Fed Meat Market’s Joshua and Jessica Applestone – who cater to the public’s newly rediscovered taste for authenticity and a closer connection to their food, perhaps best illustrated here in an extended and absorbing sequence detailing a pig slaughter. A dash of history – some provided by old-time Italian-American butcher Moe Albanese – helps round out this diverting featurette, which could stand to lose both its cheesy titular exclamation point and the wholly unnecessary personal narration from the filmmaker, which is intermittently, and distractingly, inserted at random for no discernible reason.
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