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Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
Directed by
Lydia Tenaglia
R
2016
2h
Documentary
,
Biography
6.6
84%
67%
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This documentary profiles an influential chef who played a pivotal role in the invention of a revolutionary new American cuisine.
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Cast of Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
Anthony Bourdain
Himself
Martha Stewart
Herself
Mario Batali
Himself
Tammy Klein
Margaret's Girlfriend
Richard Neil
Russian Uncle
Francesca De Luca
Margot Fonteyn
Shondale Seymour
Margaret Tower
Stephen Torres
Himself - Director, Roots of American Food Festival
James Villas
Himself - Former Food and Wine Editor, Town and Country Magazine
Ruth Reichl
Self - Author / Former Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet Magazine
Regina Schrambling
Self - Former New York Times Food Writer
John Sanger
Self - Harvard College Friend
Jonathan Waxman
Self - Chef / Restaurateur
Ken Friedman
Self - Restaurateur
Wolfgang Puck
Self - Chef / Restaurateur
Jeremiah Tower
Self - Chef / Restaurateur
Lydia Tenaglia
Director
Susan Porretta
Producer
Gillian Brown
Producer
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Daniel Neman
Though you may be tempted, do not run screaming from "Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent" after the first two minutes.
Willamette Week
Ruth Brown
Its real revelation is in discovering this coulda-been-Gordon-Ramsay and his restaurants in their heyday, thanks to a surprisingly ample collection of archival footage and the colorful anecdotes.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Debbi Snook
It's a moody, chilling tale of a respected artist beset by those demons, as well as his own.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Like his restaurants, the film is carried by Tower's personality and vision. Even if you're not into food, it's a fascinating look at a seminal moment in American cuisine, and the man who helped bring it about.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The Tavern footage is terrific stuff - unstaged and unmediated and the closest the camera gets to penetrating the enigmatic yet magnetic chef.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Lydia Tenaglia's alternately dreamy and gossipy documentary about celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower is heavy on the "celebrity" and frustratingly short on the "chef."
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Tower indeed is living a magnificent life, which Tenaglia nearly suffocates in a creaky "Citizen Kane"-style telling ...
Seattle Times
Bethany Jean Clement
"The Last Magnificent," from the title to the closing sequence, matches Tower's drama with its own style.
Washington Post
Maura Judkis
As the documentary comes to a close ... a man few people ever truly knew retreats into himself once more.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Tower is shown in the kitchen trying to do the impossible, and it's hard not to feel for him and respect his care and rigor.
TheWrap
Tricia Olszewski
Styled pretentiously at times, the film presents Tower as the lone wolf he was at heart; shooting him as chef-as-martyr, roaming the Mexican desert and gazing toward the sun as his own narration plays, however, is a bit eyeroll-inducing.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Benefiting from its charismatic and emotionally complex central figure, Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent proves compelling enough to appeal beyond its target foodie demographic.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Disorganized or not, the film finds high drama in the great man's vanishing act, in his return to prominence, and in his efforts to run a vast, notoriously difficult enterprise while being at loggerheads with his employers.
NPR
Scott Tobias
Tenaglia is so committed to making an argument for Tower's place in the culinary firmament that she underserves the part of his life that could have made the documentary unique.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A documentary understandably in awe of its subject, a film that finally fascinates despite some initial bumps in the road.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Even if you care very little for fancy food and the people who make it, The Last Magnificent works as a portrait of a man who leaves aromatic clouds of glamour wherever he goes.
New York Times
Andy Webster
Tenaglia's camera lends a polished veneer as food authorities like Ruth Reichl, Mario Batali, Wolfgang Puck and Martha Stewart attest to Mr. Tower's gifts, with Anthony Bourdain, one of the film's producers, especially forceful.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Lydia Tenaglia's direction is occasionally flashy and cluttered, but her empathy for Tower is evocative and poignant.
Village Voice
Craig D. Lindsey
The dreamy, well-done Magnificent will inevitably be compared to Jiro Dreams of Sushi, that other doc about an obsessive, perfectionist chef. But more compelling is the vibe it shares with Man on Wire.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
A conspicuously imperfect movie that turns more compelling after trying your patience, then yields a final half-hour that's as engrossing as a finely-wrought suspense drama.
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