THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL - Official International Trailer HD

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I learned about this quirky film from Lauren.

The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel 

between the wars, and 

Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

Looks so devilishly wonderful.

They Got ENGAGED !!! On MT. KILIMANJARO !!!

And Phil got down on one knee and proposed....at the bottom of the mountain...as he said the climb was going to be symbolic of a marriage...some good, some bad, some happy, some sad, some easy, some hard....but love triumphing over anything. And the ring...is a simple, chic, classic silver band with 'HEA' engraved inside = 'Happily Ever After' !!!! So romantic! (tear) Read more soon (they are pooped) on their blog: http://www.thepearlcurriculum.blogspot.com. LPxo

Cooking With Stella

A lighthearted, satirical, social comedy about an unsuspecting couple in the Canadian Diplomatic Service posted to New Delhi who inherit a household of Indian servants headed by the wily, charming... and totally inspiring cook - Stella.

I can only imagine the luscious sets, landscapes and colour in this new movie. Production Designer, Tamara Deverell (top photo), studied Renaissance art and architecture in Florence, and design and painting at the Emily Carr Institute of Art. She worked as an art director with renowned production designers François Séguin and Carol Spier, on such films as Crash and Existenz, both directed by David Cronenberg. She was also the art director on X Men, and on Guillermo del Toro‘s Mimic. Her work as a production designer covers a wide range of periods and styles, and includes the Eloise at the Plaza television movies, and the mini series Sounder and A Feast for all Saints. She was the production designer for Deepa Mehta‘s comedy Bollwood Hollywood, for Breakfast with Scot, director Laurie Lynd and also for THE Burning Season, director Harvey Crossland — which was shot in India. She is currently designing the ABC series Happy Town. Her four months in New Delhi researching and designing Cooking with Stella were a professional and personal highlight.

Stella Elizabeth Matthews has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary - with a few pilfered items, some minor overcharging, and a special phone-order duty free business. A newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrive with their baby and, after an initial jolt when she learns that Michael will be staying home as "diplomatic housewife" while Maya goes off to work, everything goes swimmingly for Stella. Michael was a chef in Ottawa and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his "cooking guru". But Stella's cozy domestic set-up implodes when Tannu, an honest nanny, joins the household, and threatens to expose Stella's deceptions. Eventually Stella wins Tannu's full cooperation (and then some!). This unlikely partnership embarks on a much grander, riskier scam, which seems to bring disaster. An unexpected kind of justice is found, but not until the guru-student relationship between Stella and Michael has been sorely tested. Michael has learned many important lessons from his teacher ...including glorious traditional South Indian cooking. And Stella? Well... let's just say dreams sometimes come true in unexpected ways.

Official 'Cooking With Stella' website.

Stella's Recipes here.

Country: Canada

Year: 2009

Language: English, Hindi

Runtime: 103 minutes

Format: Colour/35mm

Rating: PG

Opens March 19, 2010