The Words (2012) uses an excerpt from A Moveable Feast to represent a book manuscript found in an old messenger bag.
In the American movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), one of the books on the shelf in the character Steve Rogers’ apartment is Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.
In the American film French Postcards (1979), a character quotes the epigraph from the book in order to convince a fellow American student who is studying in France with him to not only study, but enjoy life in Paris.
In the American comedy film Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), a stripper named Tits Hemingway says she got the latter part of her name because her favorite novel is A Moveable Feast.
In literature
The writer Enrique Vila-Matas named his book Never Any End to Paris (2003) after the final chapter of Hemingway’s work.
In stage performances
In his stand-up performances in the late 1960s, Woody Allen performed a routine that referenced the recently published book and described imaginary times spent with Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and Gertrude Stein with the recurring punch line: «And Hemingway punched me in the mouth.»
Revival in France
A Moveable Feast became a bestseller in France following the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. In the context of the attacks, the book’s French-language title, Paris est une fête, was seen as a symbol of defiance and celebration. Bookstore sales of the volume surged and copies of the book appeared in makeshift memorials across the city in honor of victims of the attacks.
Hemingway’s wine
In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway described what life was like for aspiring writers in 1920s Paris. In addition to writing about his friendships, marriage, and writing routine in Parisian cafes, Hemingway also discussed his love of good wine, noting the different wines he and his friends enjoyed with their meals.
Sancerre: A False Spring, «Another day later that year when we had come back from one of our voyages and had good luck at some track again we stopped at Prunier’s on the way home, going in to sit at the bar after looking at the clearly priced wonders in the window. We had oysters and crab mexicane with glasses of Sancerre.»
Mâcon: Scott Fitzgerald, «We had a marvellous lunch from the hotel at Lyon, an excellent truffled roast chicken, delicious bread and white Mâcon wine and Scott was very happy when we drank the white Maconnais at each of our stops. At Mâcon I had bought four more bottles of excellent wine which I uncorked as we needed them.»
Corsican: With Pascin at the Dôme, «At home, over the sawmill, we had a Corsican wine that had a great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.»
Cahors: With Pascin at the Dôme, «At the Negre de Toulouse we drank the good Cahors wine from the quarter, the half or the full carafe, usually diluting it about one-third with water…In Paris, then, you could live very well on almost nothing and by skipping meals occasionally and never buying any new clothes, you could save and have luxuries.»
In September 2020, Chiswick Book Festival featured a wine and literature event celebrating Hemingway’s wine in A Moveable Feast presented by Victoria Daskal.
