17-591: David Gelb (born October 16, 1983) is an American director of film and television. He is most known for his documentary work on the subject of food and cuisine, including the 2011 film Jiro Dreams of Sushi , the Netflix series Chef's Table and Street Food , and the 2021 film Wolfgang . Gelb was born in Manhattan , New York City . He attended the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School and graduated from
34-442: A customer's eyes for a signal that this change has been an improvement? Half an hour of massage was good enough to win three Michelin stars. Gelb, a "huge Philip Glass fan", has commented on his use of Philip Glass compositions in the film's soundtrack: In hindsight, I think it works because Philip Glass's music is kind of a metaphor for Jiro's work ethic, because it's repetitive but it also builds on itself and escalates, and it's
51-484: A food documentary series for Netflix called Chef's Table , which he considers a follow-up to Jiro Dreams of Sushi . Gelb's 2015 documentary, A Faster Horse , examines the development of the 2015 Ford Mustang, a film timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Mustang. Gelb, Brian McGinn and Jason Sterman produced Marvel's 616 , a documentary series about the impact of Marvel Comics on culture. Jiro Dreams of Sushi Jiro Dreams of Sushi
68-563: A minimum of JP¥ 55,000 (US$ 270). The film also profiles Jiro's two sons, both of whom are also sushi chefs. The younger son, Takashi ( 隆士 ) , left Sukiyabashi Jiro to open a mirror image of his father's restaurant in Roppongi Hills . The 50-year-old elder son, Yoshikazu ( 禎一 ) , obliged to succeed his father, still works for Jiro and is faced with the prospect of one day taking over the flagship restaurant. Initially, Gelb had planned to do what he had nicknamed "Planet Sushi", inspired by
85-525: A systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb , which itself is owned by Amazon . Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post
102-408: Is a 2011 Japanese-language American documentary film directed by David Gelb . The film follows Jiro Ono ( 小野 二郎 , Ono Jirō ) , a then-85-year-old sushi master and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro , then a Michelin three-star restaurant. Sukiyabashi Jiro is a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant located in a Tokyo subway station. As of 2023, Jiro Ono serves a tasting menu of roughly 20 courses, for
119-416: Is that enough? Standing behind his counter, Jiro notices things. Some customers are left-handed, some right-handed. That helps determine where they are seated at his counter. As he serves a perfect piece of sushi, he observes it being eaten. He knows the history of that piece of seafood. He knows his staff has recently started massaging an octopus for 45 minutes and not half an hour, for example. Does he search
136-569: The University of Southern California . His father is Peter Gelb , the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera ; his paternal grandfather was Arthur Gelb , a former managing editor of The New York Times . In 2016, he married Christine D'Souza Gelb , who is the principal of the A24 -backed production and talent management firm, 2AM . David Gelb released Jiro Dreams of Sushi in 2012. He created
153-471: The cinematography of the BBC documentary Planet Earth : Originally, I was going to make a film with a lot of different sushi chefs who all had different styles, but when I got to Jiro's restaurant, I was not only amazed by how good the sushi was and how much greater it was than any other sushi restaurant I had ever been to, but I also found Jiro to be such a compelling character and such an interesting person. I
170-630: The Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules, and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box-office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts going back to 1982, grosses for older films, an international section expanded to cover
187-870: The US in 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival and was an official selection of the Provincetown International Film Festival in the same year. The documentary was made available on Netflix streaming on August 28, 2012. As of 2013 , the film has grossed US$ 2,552,478 in North America. It is ranked 70th of all US Documentaries on Box Office Mojo . The film earned a rating of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 88 reviews and an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Beautiful, thoughtful, and engrossing, Jiro Dreams of Sushi should prove satisfying even for filmgoers who don't care for
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#1733085819659204-430: The cuisine." On Metacritic , the film has a score of 77 out of 100, based on 27 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Roger Ebert called it a "portrait of tunnel vision " and concluded: While watching it, I found myself drawn into the mystery of this man. Are there any unrealized wishes in his life? Secret diversions? Regrets? If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it,
221-469: The following day. On October 23, 2019, Box Office Mojo unveiled a dramatic redesign resembling IMDb, and was rebranded as "Box Office Mojo by IMDbPro". The redesign was heavily criticized for being difficult to navigate and moving much of its content behind a paywall . Several features previously provided for free, such as box-office data for franchises, genres, actors, filmmakers, distributors, budgets, and inflation-adjusted figures, were moved to IMDbPro ,
238-535: The forums were officially closed along with any user accounts, and users were invited to join IMDb's message boards. The IMDb forums were closed on February 20, 2017. In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon.com through its subsidiary , IMDb and the Premier Pass features and content later became free. On October 10, 2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDb's box office page, before returning
255-405: The same with Jiro's work. Because every day he's going, he's doing the same routine, and trying to do everything exactly the same, but just reaching for that one step of improvement, and I feel like the music's doing the same thing, so they match perfectly. The soundtrack includes the following: Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in
272-449: The weekly box office of 50 countries, international release schedules, as well as box office results from up to 107 countries. In 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury, and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In 2003, a subscription model was introduced (Premier Pass) to limit certain data and features to subscribers. From 2002 to 2011, Box Office Mojo had forums, which had more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2, 2011,
289-589: Was also fascinated by the story of his son, who is fifty years old, but still works for his father at the restaurant. So, I thought, "Here's a story about a person living in his father's shadow while his father is in a relentless pursuit of perfection." It was the makings of a good feature film. Food critic Masuhiro Yamamoto connected Gelb with Jiro. Principal photography took Gelb one month (January 2010), augmented by additional scenes shot later that year in August; editing took 10 months. Jiro Dreams of Sushi debuted in
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