not my favourite film – but a great family dinner scene: Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini)
and what about Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorcese) – the dinner in prison scene or dinner at tommy’s mum. domesticity and brutality of mafia, italian style. sorry can’t embed it for you – youtube won’t let me.
one of the most brutal films of all times abounds in scenes where the pleasure and power of the torturer is related to eating, dining and making people eat various things. not for the faint hearted and weak stomached Salo or 120 Days of Sodom(1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
or this very brief clip when one of the libertines asks a boy to “mangia la merda” (the strange-sounding hungarian sub may ease the effect)
Haha ostrich = speedy success. But… but…
Running with ‘phagias…
This article by Steve Barrett connects divination and semiotics beautifully. It’s not about telling future. It’s all about birth of the reader, see…
Necromancy and Necrophagia: The Movement of Oscilation in S/Z
http://www.othervoices.org/sbarrett/necro.html