Screenings

Babette's Feast
Sunday January 11, 2009
5:00 PM
Like Water for Chocolate
Sunday April 19, 2009
5:00 PM
Tampopo
Sunday July 12, 2009
5:00 PM
Diner
Sunday October 11, 2009
5:00 PM

Presents

2009 Dinner & A Movie Series

2009 Dinner & A Movie Series

Pricing

Series Pass: $500 | Tickets: $125 | Limited availability
Series passes are currently unavailable.

Special 2-for-1 Promotion! For the October 11 screening of Diner, buy one ticket at $125 and your guest will get in free!

Events begin at 5pm
2009 series theme - Food
Volterra Drawing Room, 5407 Ballard Ave NW

Date night is a whole lot more appetizing with the continuing partnership between Volterra Restaurant and the Seattle International Film Festival.

Dinner and a Movie, a year-long quarterly program that debuted in January 2008, features Volterra’s award-winning Italian cuisine coupled with films exclusively picked by Carl Spence, Artistic Director of SIFF. Forty-five exclusive seats are available for each event and the films will be shown on the state-of-the-art AV system that was installed especially for this project.

The 2009 food-themed series concludes with Diner on October 11. Dinner menu from Chef Curtiss includes:
    Wild Boar Meatloaf
    Mashed Potatoes
    Mini Deluxe Sandwiches
    Maryland Blue Crab Cakes
    Tater Tots and Gravy
    Italian Vegetarian Scrapple with Mushroom Gravy
    Banana Chocolate Cream Pie
    Apple Pie

Films

  • Babette's Feast

    Sold out   Artistic, sensual and sacred passions unite in Babette's Feast. Written and directed by Gabriel Axel, from a short story by Out of Africa's Isak Dinesen, this Oscar®-winning film offers "an irresistible mixture of dry wit and robust humanity" (Newsweek).

  • Diner

    Barry Levinson's (Tin Men, Avalon) directorial debut chronicles the relationships between a group of friends living in Baltimore in 1959. The uniting factor for this group is their fear of growing up. They spend hour after hour in the local greasy-spoon diner, joking, boasting, bragging,

  • Like Water for Chocolate

    A feast for the senses, this magical romance from director Alfonso Arau was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Golden Globe. The passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him.

  • Tampopo

    A celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture, acclaimed director Juzo Itami's hit satire was dubbed the first "noodle western" for its delightful parody of American Westerns and Japanese samurai films. Tampopo follows a young widow (Miyamoto) who runs a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo and