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30/05/2014 11:28 par tellurikwaves

en haut (sous réserve) :Lexie Sperduto-Lucy Clemente

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Danny Aiello Hits Again
9/10
Author: SmoothGrooves from United States
17 June 2005

I found this gem in the bargain bin at Wal Mart. How it got there, I don't know. The film stars Danny Aiello (Do The Right Thing), Mike McGlone (The Brothers McMullen) and John Corbett (Sex and the City). Set in the fast paced New York Italian restaurant "Gigino", we follow a restaurant owner (Aiello) and his son, the head chef, on a busy Friday night.

The film is comprised of witty banter from different tables in the restaurant, following a uptight art critic, a mafiosi from Queens, a food critic and a real mystery man in Corbett's character.

The staff has to deal with a power outage, whiny tables and a line chef who is into a bookie 35 grand. The film carries itself with panache every second, and no matter how often I see this picture, be it on DVD or on IFC, I just can't get enough. Check it out!

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30/05/2014 11:21 par tellurikwaves

en haut (sous réserve)Ajay Naidu -Ademir the Matre'd le Maître d'hotel/Chef de rang (?)

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Dinner Rush goes straight into my all-time Top 10
10/10
Author: tenten76 from London
4 October 2002

I didn't think they made movies like this anymore.

The only thing wrong with this movie is the lack of marketing. Otherwise, it's superb on so many levels, and the ending (even though I knew what was coming) was a happy surprise.

Every single performance is good, with most of them actually great. The script is faultless, as is the plot, the pacing, and the directing. Even though it's a less-flashy style than in 99% or the movies these days, it's wonderful to be able to appreciate really good camerawork, clear dialogue, perfect editing..

I don't want to go into great detail, because the movie is such a pleasure to watch. I just hope this may convince you to see Dinner Rush, because it's quite possibly the best film of the year. I am now going to pester friends & colleagues to rent it, until I can actually buy it and then force them to watch.

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30/05/2014 11:12 par tellurikwaves

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30/05/2014 05:54 par tellurikwaves

à droite (sous réserve) Summer Phoenix :Marti Wellington

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A masterpiece in execution
8/10
Author: George Parker from Orange County, CA USA
23 January 2003

Fan a fresh deck of cards with the spots up and the coherence is immediately apparent. Shuffle the deck and coherence is lost...the purpose of the shuffle. In "Dinner Rush", Giraldi and company manage to shuffle a deck of plots, personal issues, and cuisine with the controlled chaos of a restaurant during the dinner rush while never losing coherence, building characters and stories, and wrapping everything up with a bow in just over 1.5 hours.

Masterfully crafted, "Dinner Rush" has a story to tell, offers solid performances, works well in claustrophobic conditions, sports a cosmopolitan cast, and is imbued with gourmet cooking and an ever present taste of "the Big Apple". Not for everyone, this flick will appeal most to those who can appreciate a film as much for its execution and style as for its story. (B+)

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30/05/2014 05:50 par tellurikwaves

en haut à gauche :l'incorruptible chef de la police et madame

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Tasty-looking food steals the show
8/10
Author: raymond-15 from Australia
12 January 2005

The film is about a trendy family restaurant in New York. As one character says..."It's a joint with a buzz!"It's an apt expression,for the film surely buzzes non-stop as the characters crowd into this very popular restaurant noted for its delicious food. Down below the restaurant is the kitchen where the meals are prepared. This is the most stunning part of the film. Absolutely believable. Perfect cinema.

Among the steaming saucepans and oiled fry pans there is the clatter of white plates on which the chefs and kitchen staff arrange the most surprising little temptations at lightning speed. The hand of the director is most noticeable here with superb choreographed movement of the actors in the confined space. There is clatter and chatter, laughter and fisticuffs.

The mood is different at the dining tables. Idle gossip among the clients and smart remarks to the staff about the appropriateness of hanging oil paintings in a restaurant. Then there is the presence of the food writers ready to criticize and gangster types insisting on a partnership with the management. It's all go...go...go...as the camera follows the dishes to the tables. There is a perpetual air of excitement.

The cameras constantly switch from dining room to kitchen and kitchen to dining room maintaining a lively feeling of urgency as the trays are carried up the stairs. The dialogue is fast too and I find it sometimes difficult to follow. The large cast requires some sorting out as well. The ending comes unexpectedly with a surprising twist. This film is really about revenge. Like some food preparations, revenge can simmer for a long time. One thing is made clear to me however. Revenge as a dish is best served cold.

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30/05/2014 05:44 par tellurikwaves

Precious Like Some Rare Wine!
Author: demunfallopferseinefrau from Braunschweig, Germany
2 September 2003

"Dinner Rush" has not been released in Germany --- which usually indicates a not very successful B-movie... In this case, it is a B-movie (shot in only 21 days!), but,uuhhh baby, it is one of the best B-movies ever made. Elegant camera movements, a superb ensemble cast (Danny Aiello, John Corbett, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Sandra Bernhard, Mark Margolis, and beautiful Summer Phoenix), an intriguing story, marvelously directed ... they usually don't make movies like that anymore. Bob Giraldi did an excellent job with his actors, and production designer Andrew Bernard created a stunning atmosphere.

"Dinner Rush" ranks among my all-time favorite films. It might be not suitable for everyone, but then, what movie is? It's an entertaining, witty, thoughtful portrayal of New York of the millennium --- enchanting!

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30/05/2014 05:39 par tellurikwaves

The kid's a pathological gambler. He needs help, not another bookmaker." There are enough plots here to challenge a Robert Altman, specialist in interlocking stories, but the director, Bob Giraldi, masters the complexities as if he knows the territory. He does. He owns the restaurant, which in real life is named Giraldi's. His center of gravity is supplied by Louis, who plays his cards close to his vest--closer than we suspect--and like a man who has been dealing with drunks for a very, very long time, doesn't get worked up over every little thing. He talks to his accountant and the visiting gangsters as if they're in the same business.

Like "Big Night," a film it resembles, "Dinner Rush" has a keen appreciation for the intricacies of a restaurant. In front, everybody is supposed to have a good time. In the kitchen, the chef is a dictator, and the workers are galley slaves. Udo has a scene right at the start where he makes one thing clear: Do it his way, or get out. The scenes in the kitchen show the bewildering speed with which hard and exact work is accomplished, and Giraldi is able to break these scenes down into details that edit together into quick little sequences--not surprising, since he has directed hundreds of commercials.

In a plot like this, there isn't a lot of time to establish characters, so the actors have to bring their characters into the film with them. They do. The gangsters walk in menacingly. Margolis has a manner that makes Fitzgerald hateful on sight. Bernhard and her long-suffering companion play out nightly private dramas over the work of the city's chefs. And Aiello suggests enormous depths of pride, sympathy, worry and buried anger. The last scenes are fully packed, with developments that come one after another, tempting critics to complain it's all a little too neat.

Maybe, but then you wouldn't want  those story strands left dangling, and to spend any more time on them would be laboring the point: Like a good meal, this movie is about the progression of the main courses and not about the mints at the door.

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30/05/2014 05:34 par tellurikwaves

à gauche :Danny Aiello-(Louis Cropa) +ou- ex maffieux,patron du restau / et son fils Udo

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La critique de Roger Ebert (1)
January 18, 2002   | 

Unbelievable. Only in New York can a double murder triple your business. So it is observed in "Dinner Rush," a movie set in one of those Italian restaurants that the customers are tickled to believe is mob-connected even though it isn't, because it makes it more thrilling that way. (Rosebud, the Chicago eatery, had billboards saying, "We serve the whole mob.") The story unfolds during one long night at an Italian place in Tribeca that is undergoing an identity crisis. The owner Louis (Danny Aiello) likes traditional Italian fare.

His son Udo (Edoardo Ballerini) is into nouvelle, or nuovo, cuisine and boasts: "Sausage and peppers is not on my menu." Louis is in despair. He wants to turn the place over to his son, but not if it means abandoning dishes that make you think of breadsticks and red-and-white checkerboard tablecloths. There are other problems. A man has been murdered, and the identity of his killers may be known to Louis. And two men have come into the restaurant, taken a table, called Louis over, and informed him, "We're not leaving here until we're partners in the business."Louis says they can have the book he runs,but not the restaurant Never the restaurant.

They don't leave.It's a busy night. The party at one long table is presided over by Fitzgerald (Mark Margolis), a gravel-voiced snob who talks slooowly so the cretins of the world can understand him.He runs an art gallery and is treating a visiting Greek artist.The enter tainment consists of insulting his waitress (Summer Phoenix) and the maitresse 'd (Vivian Wu). At another table, Sandra Bernhard plays a food critic as if she considers the performance personal revenge on every theater and movie critic who has ever said a word against her.

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30/05/2014 05:21 par tellurikwaves

à gauche :Alex Corrado:Paolo-joueur invétéré,qui perd de grosses sommes.Il est également le chouchou du patron (Danny Aiello) à qui il prépare des petits plats traditionnels à l'ancienne...

à droite :Edoardo Ballerini:Chef Udo Cropa le fils,partisan d'une nouvelle cuisine,encensé par la critique.Il aimerait bien reprendre l'affaire et transformer le restaurant.Une rivalité supplémentaire entre les deux hommes :il est l'ex de "D"Vivian Wu (Nicole Chan) actuelle maitresse de Paollo

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30/05/2014 05:04 par tellurikwaves

Cast:
Danny Aiello  .... Louis Cropa
John Rothman  .... Gary Lieberman
Frank Bongiorno  .... Enrico Coventie
Lexie Sperduto  .... Lucy Clemente
Zainab Jah  .... Adrian
Alex Corrado  .... Paolo
Mike McGlone  .... Carmen
Walt MacPherson  .... Detective Drury
Polly Draper  .... Natalie Clemente
Edoardo Ballerini  .... Chef Udo Cropa
Vivian Wu  .... Nicole Chan
Manny Perez  .... Gabriel
Ajay Naidu  .... Ademir the Matre'd
Andre Haynes Richarson... Machine (as Andre Richardson Haynes)
Summer Phoenix  .... Marti Wellington

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Plot summary
Is it just another evening at the hugely popular Italian restaurant of proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa in New York? Anything but as tonight's guests include; a local police detective and his wife specially invited by the owner; on the balcony rival bookmaker gangsters from Queens who want to become partners in the restaurant; in the corner renowned food critic'the food nymph' is her usual demanding self;and at the bar,seemingly unnoticed, is Ken. As the evening continues enter Duncan, inveterate gambler and sous-chef on-the-line in the frenetic kitchen downstairs, who acts as the catalyst that causes the evening to draw to its inevitable, explosive, deadly conclusion.