Event

City of Gold with Special Guest Jonathan Gold

Sept. 11 City of Gold
USA 2015 (1 hr., 36 min.) Rated R
Documentary In English

We invite you to join Ojai Film Society for this very special event featuring the movie and the man who inspired it. Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold!

Director Laura Gabbert deliciously serves up Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold in this tour of the LA food scene. Tucked into his pickup truck and combing the busy avenues and colorful neighborhoods to find the best that LA restaurants have to offer, Gold writes about the highest achievers and the best wannabes that dot the environs of southern Californias glittery gourmet gem. Its a demographic and cultural feast with remarkable insights into Golds own psyche and his personal history.

The Pulitzer-winning Gold, who can be heard regularly on Evan Kleinmans Good Food on NPR, is at once ruminative, loving, questing and congenial in his pursuit of the many facets of LAs food proprietors. What comes through strongest, though, is his deep love for his city.

. . . a tasty primer on the man, the eater, the critic and the city. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune writing for the Los Angeles Times