From July 4 to July 8, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish introduced a sequence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music referred to as Let Them Cook: Cinema of the Rice Cooker, which spotlit motion pictures the place the humble family equipment takes on a poetics and pragmatism uniquely suited to the display. Some of the movies in the sequence included Payal Kapadia’s All We Think about as Gentle (2024), Claire Denis’s 35 Pictures of Rum (2008), Wong Kar-wai’s In the Temper for Love (2000), Raymond Yip’s Sixty Million Greenback Man (2005), Yasujiro Ozu’s Good Morning (1959), and Bong Joon Ho’s Incoherence (1994) . 

After a screening of Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill (1967)—which follows a yakuza murderer with a fetish for the scent of cooking rice—Devika recorded a panel dialogue with movie scholar and critic Phoebe Chen, The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Bedatri Datta Choudhury, and Bon Appétit‘s Joseph Hernandez about the cinematic enchantment of the rice cooker.