MVD Entertainment GroupĀ has announced that they will be releasingĀ Pizza, A Love Story from director Gorman Bechard on DVD and VOD on September 29, 2020. The documentary is a 11 years-in-the-making homage to the world famous pizzerias Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana, Sally’s Apizza, and Modern Apizza, The DVD features numerous extras, including the Q&A from opening night in New Haven with Bechard and his two producers.
Synopsis: Called “An important film of staggering genius that needed to be made,”Ā Pizza, A Love StoryĀ has been selling out film festival screenings from Washington State to Alabama. Work on the film began in 2008, when Bechard and longtime friend Dean Falcone, both self-acknowledged pizza snobs, decided it was time to turn the camera on the only pizza that matters.
The film sets out to prove its tag line: “Pizza wasn’t invented in New Haven. It was perfected there,” by combining history, comedy, and some of the most mouth-watering footage you will ever see, into a film that also features cameos from actor Henry Winkler, musicians Lyle Lovett and Michael Bolton, Senator Chris Murphy, legendary concert promoter Jim Koplik, and dozens more. The film also includes the last known interview with Flora Consiglio of Sally’s, filmed shortly before her passing in 2012.
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