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When I was little, I had a photo book of "The Red Balloon." Many years later, I actually finally saw the movie.
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<i>Is Paris Burning?
A Man For All Seasons Becket Forget Paris The Man Who Would Be King Mon Oncle</i> |
While not a lot of travel happens in this movie, a lot of time is spent in the CDG airport and CDG Hilton. So my favorite is Jet Lag with Juliet Binoche and Jean Reno.
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Room with a View
Everything Illuminated |
Yes,
Room With a View...we saw the movie in '90 and then came across a marvelous full page photo spread in Conde Nast Travel a few years later....so, on our next trip to Florence in '93 I called the Hotel Quissisana E Vecchio (where the "room with a view" was shot and asked to reserve that particular room (balcony/terrace overlooking the Arno etc)...that exact room was given to us when we arrived....glorious! Sad Footnote: Just a month later, when the Uffizi Gallery next door was bombed by an anti-government terrorist, the Quissisana was badly damaged also...it was in such ill repair it never opened again...on the spot there is now another hotel...but the charm of the "room with a view" is gone forever. We were so lucky to have stayed there. Stu T. |
Waking Ned Devine. Not a travel movie, but a movie that made me want to travel. Does that count?
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Motorcycle Diaries!
Best movie I have seen in a LONG time! |
These have been mention before but bear repeating - they are my favorites:
Shirley valentine To Catch A Thief Motorcycle Diaries Tea With Mussolini I can't seem to find in any of the video stores Topkapi - remember that one with Melina Mercuri and Peter Ustinov plotting to steal the dagger at the museum??? I would love to see the shopts again of Istanbul. |
Three Coins in a Fountain, for Rome
Tea with Mussolini Only You Summertime, for Venice Bread & Tulips, for Venice and many others already mentioned! |
The Best of Our Youth - 6 hour Italian epic, with some amazingly beautiful Tuscan scenery, along with Torino, Rome and other places.
Zelary - Beautiful Slovak Alpine countryside Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - The Riviera Mondovino - A wine lover's tour of France and Italy Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring - Provence (possibly the best French films ever IMHO) |
zootsi...Best of Youth is well worth the two-session 6 hour flick..a masterpiece! We went one one day and caught the second half three days later.
Stu T. |
Some of my all time favorite movies that inspired travel have been mentioned:
Lion in Winter Under the Tuscan Sun Lord of the Rings Trilogy Dangerous Beauty Then some more: Rob Roy Ryan's Daughter Calendar Girls (visited the area it was filmed in Yorkshire) A Year in Provence |
"Ladies in Lavender".....now I want to visit Cornwall. It is portrayed so beautifully and lovingly.
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I second that emotion----I Am David is a beautiful film. Watched it twice, and each time teared up--DH did too! Wonderful story witt great shots of small Italian and Swiss villages, lovely countryside, etc.
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To Catch a Thief, Sabrina (both versions), Charade, Devil Wears Prada
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Ah, Sabrina (the first one). So many memories of scenes from that movie. I am too prideful when I crack an egg with one hand - thanks to that movie. Just cracked eggs a few minutes ago and thought about AH/Sabrina learning to cook - or not! :-)
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Thanks for the memories:
Some votes for previously mentioned and one additional: Mr Hulot's holiday,the quintessential vacation movie Dont look now Topkapi Waking Ned Devine (how often do you get to see that part of the UK?) and Death in Venice (the music, the angst the decaying city) |
Has anyone else seen a foreign movie called "<u>Window to Paris</u>"? Very charming.
".....<i>In Window to Paris, Nikolai, a music teacher, is fired from his job and moves into a communal apartment in early post-Soviet St. Petersburg. When the cat of the long-dead previous owner mysteriously appears, the apartment tenants discover a hidden window in Nikolai’s room that magically transports them to Paris.....The more serious, dramatic elements of Window to Paris, such as the almost tragic need for escapism on the part of the Russians, combined with the explicit and implicit humor in the film, produce a lovely "laughter through tears" effect, guaranteeing that this film will have a lasting impression on the viewer</i>....." http://www.nd.edu/~adinega/russfilm/...ce.Window.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110719/ |
For Paris: "The Dreamers."
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RufusT:
LOL; you are (as you should be) one funny guy. Can we add The Posiedon Adventure and The Titanic to the list of cruise movies? |
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