Movies That Make You Want to Travel
Mar 21st, 2003, 07:32 PM
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Ok guys, how about "The English Patient", especially the scene in the church where Juliet Binoche is on some sort of a pulley or swing and gets to see the art on the walls close and personal? Gives me goose pimples.
Mar 22nd, 2003, 12:03 PM
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It'll probably sound a little hokie, but ever since I first saw 'the sound of music' as a kid, i always wanted to go to the Germany, Switzerland,Austria area. Also 'emma' and 'sense and sensibility' for the UK. And I'm sorry but after seeing the 'lord of the rings' flicks, I AM going to go to New Zealand sometime.
Mar 23rd, 2003, 11:16 AM
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Alice: We will be visiting Budapest in mid May for the first time and very much looking forward to it. If you are able to get a lead on buying a VHS tape of Broken Lullaby would appreciate your posting info on it. Thanks!
Apr 14th, 2003, 06:46 AM
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Alice I think the Angela Lansbury movie IS called Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris" as Ellenem says.<BR><BR>I just saw a preview of the new Broadway show "Enchanted April" over the weekend because it's one of my favorite movies. I knew they wouldn't be able to capture the magic of the movie on stage, but they've managed to butcher the story as well. The entire first act (one hour) is the lead up to going to Italy (supposedly in London but without ANY scenery). The audience still doesn't understand (as in the movie) WHY these women want to get away from their husbands. The second act picks up, but it all takes place on the terrace of the villa (pretty). Stick with the movie.
Apr 14th, 2003, 10:12 AM
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Two of my favourites have already been mentioned; Ryans Daughter and Dont Look Now. People seem to have forgotten Lawrence of Arabia - it must have some of the most magnificient landscapes ever filmed? Closer to home, Whistle Down the Wind (which not many will have seen) and Kes has some great views of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Whistle down the Wind is largely filmed in the Pendle Hill area, which along with the Trough of Bowland must be one of England's best kept secret and beuatiful places.
Apr 14th, 2003, 11:31 AM
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For those who loved the scenery in Ryan's Daughter, you should rent Far and Away with Tom Cruise. The movie is atrocious but it was filmed in Dunquin and Ballyferriter (Dingle Pennisula)also. My now deceased uncle was an extra in the scene where the men are carrying a coffin on their shoulders and the landlord comes and burns a cottage down. He was one of the pallbearers. My brother's fiance and a cousin are extras in it also. After the scenes of Ireland turn the movie off - its awful.<BR><BR>Another film with scenes from Ireland that I don't believe has been mentioned yet is Into the West. One of my favorites.<BR><BR>Still love the Sound of Music and can't wait to get to Austria.<BR><BR>Never had any desire to see London but after seeing Notting Hill, Bridget Jone's Diary and About a Boy I've changed my mind.
Apr 14th, 2003, 01:26 PM
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"The 39 Steps", the 30s version. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what town in Scotland was shown on the map. Alt-na-shallach I think. Even in black and white, Scotland looked spectacular.<BR><BR>"Straw Dogs" . . . didn't that make you want to visit a Cornish village?
Apr 15th, 2003, 03:18 AM
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To Catch a Thief...Cary Grant and Grace Kelly shot live in Cannes and the hill villages around: Eze etc. As soon as I was planning my own vacations (24) I was on a plane to the south of France.<BR><BR>Enchanted April.<BR>Roman Holiday
Apr 17th, 2003, 01:55 AM
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A not very well known film set in the Irish Republic is one called "Lamb", it starred Liam Neeson before he was very famous. It is a very 'moving' film and one that would raise a few eyebrows nowadays ( a Priest runs away with a young boy who is subject to abject misery at school). The plot apart, there are some great scenes of magnificient Irish beaches.
Apr 17th, 2003, 07:08 AM
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Paris as shown in The Bourne Identity. The shots are wonderful and really give a flavor of the Seine, the bridges.<BR><BR>The movie, on the other hand, is dreadful: mindless violence, implausible plot, etc. You might watch the video with the sound muted.
