Movies That Make You Want to Travel
Mar 7th, 2003, 11:35 AM
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Beyond Rangoon makes me want to go to Burma!<BR><BR>Last of the Dogmen makes me want to head out west into the mountains.<BR><BR>The Mexican makes me want to see that town at the end of the tunnel!<BR><BR>ANY James Bond movie and it's exotic locales<BR><BR>
Mar 7th, 2003, 07:13 PM
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sixthlap,<BR><BR>David Lean's Ryan Daughter, released in 1969, was, in essence, an epic soap opera. But the scenery - oh, the rugged and remote scenery - was the real star. <BR><BR>Ryan's Daughter, starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, and John Mills (who won the the Oscar for best supporting actor), was produced long before Ireland's Dingle Peninsula became a popular tourist destination for native irish and foreigners alike. And while many critics carped about the soap opera-like quality of the film, I found it - and still find it - awfully well done and compelling. Indeed, it lured me to Ireland's west, and I've been drawn to it ever since. How's that for the power of the medium?<BR><BR>
Mar 7th, 2003, 07:18 PM
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"Widow's Peak" for Ireland, and I concur, most definitely "Only You" for the cinematography of Venice, Rome, and Positano, that makes those venues look like something right out of a fairy tale.<BR><BR>BC
Mar 7th, 2003, 07:34 PM
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Venice-"Don't look Now"Julie Christy and Donald Sunderland<BR>Florence-"Obsession"starring Genervive Bijord (sp?)<BR>Greece-"Phaedra"with Tony Perkins and Melinda Macourie(sp?) she also stars in "Never on Sunday"<BR>Rome-"fillini's Roma", "La dolce Vita"
Mar 8th, 2003, 06:11 AM
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OUT OF AFRICA, also. But, it probably wouldn't be the same without Louis Vuitton steamer trunks filled with Limoges, a gramaphone playing Mozart, and people bowing and scraping and calling me, "Baroness."
Mar 8th, 2003, 12:28 PM
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Scarlett, I think it's "The comfort of strangers"I agree its an underrated scary film with Chris Walken, Robert Ruppert and Natasha Richardson.<BR>While washing the lunch dishes, I found myself humming the theme from a film on Paris, I forgot to mention.<BR>"Last Tango In Paris"
Mar 8th, 2003, 03:11 PM
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I need to add yet another vote for Local Hero since it is one of our families favorite movies. We were in Scotland last year and made sure to see some sites from the movie. What is not obvious at first is that the real town and beach of the fictional town of Ferness depicted in the movie are really a few hundred miles apart. The village of Pennan is on the east coast and "Ben's Beach" at Camusdarrach is on the west coast. The good news is they are just as scenic in real life as they were in the movie.<BR>After a Local Hero tinged tour of Scotland, we happened to see Jenny Seagrove (who played Marina in the movie)in a play on London's West End. We got her autograph after the play and shared some of her recollections of filming in Scotland. I hope she didn't think we were Local Hero stalkers.<BR>I would recommend a book "The Movie Traveller" by Allan Foster, for anyone who wants a travel guide to movie locations throughout the UK and Ireland. It is full of all sorts of out of the way places that have featured in any number of films from the 39 Steps to A Hard Days Night and many more.<BR>
Mar 8th, 2003, 04:51 PM
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Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas and Adolphe Menjou was released in 1957 and I remembered it as one of the most intense antiwar movies I have ever seen. When it was released in video a few years ago I watched it again with the same reaction.<BR><BR>It lead me to read John Keegan's "History of the First World War". Which then led to a day trip with Quasimodo Tours in Bruges of the battle areas around Ypres.<BR><BR>Another great movie, parts of which were filmed in Edinburgh Castle, is Tunes of Glory (1960) which featured Alec Guinness and John Mills. I just checked and it is available in VHS.<BR><BR>On a lighter tone, Italian for Beginners (2000) is a delightful movie set in Denmark and Venice. <BR><BR>
Mar 9th, 2003, 08:11 AM
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As a prelude to travelling to a chateau, watch the great Gerard Depardieu as "Vatel", a chef extraordinaire preparing a banquet for Louis XIV. Sumptuous.<BR><BR>For myself I intend to spend a little time in London in two weeks seeking out the club/bar where much of Coupling is shot.
Mar 9th, 2003, 08:52 AM
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ON GOLDEN POND! Recently watched the DVD with director's comments on working with Fonda & Hepburn, fascinating and alluring. <BR><BR>The opening scene of Sound of Music. <BR>Widow's Peak & Ryan's Daughter for Ireland. <BR><BR>If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium and Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell<BR><BR>Walkabout (Australian Outback)<BR><BR>Tea With Mussolini<BR><BR>L.A. Story with Steve Martin<BR><BR>Summer Lovers and Mediterraneo
