Mar
11
The Sydney Morning Herald just added this article in their Backpackers’ Blog with a list of ten greatest travel movies. I’ve seen many of them, particularly love Lost in Translation. Can’t wait to see the others that I have not yet seen. Just goes to show what a small world it is.
Match up Australian choices with Go Backpacking’s list of travel movies that was featured here last Monday.
PDF Tags: Movies, travel movies
Lost in Translation is one of my favorites movies of all time.
Eh. “The Hangover”? Really? I suppose I have too much reverence for travel. -r
Twitter: chezsven
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Can I leave one of my own, recently discovered? Departures. This Japanese film is most unusual. We have only watched half but were surprised to find it is a comedy, since the subject doesn’t sound funny. The images of a foreign culture and village in Japan are fascinating.
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Twitter: chezsven
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PS. We intend to watch the second half but have not yet had the time.
PPS. In that list, I also enjoyed Motorcycle Diaries.
.-= Alexandra hopes you will read blog ..Guest Post by Laura Kelley =-.
Twitter: pen4hire
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Hi Alexandra: I loved Motorcycle Diaries, too. And I’ve added Departures to my Netflix list. Sounds wonderful!
Inspiring travel films? African Queen, leeches and cheap gin and all. That’ll make you appreciate your cruise ship. Actually, we once crossed the Nile enroute to the Valley of Kings in a scow reminsicent in its nautical decrepitude and choking engine of the famous Queen. That only added to our sense of edgy adventure. It’s hard to travel anywhere these days and not see scenes as through the lens of some great cinematographer or director. Just try traveling through Monument Valley without paying homage to the vision of John Ford.
Twitter: pen4hire
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I haven’t looked at the African Queen for a long time, but seem to remember it persuading me NOT to travel to Africa. If I was ever influenced to visit Africa, I think it was by the romanticized version of King Solomon’s mine. My favorite Hollywood moment is when Deborah Kerr emerges from washing her hair in a waterfall with a perfect coiffure. Now, that’s my kind of country!
I know what you mean about influence. I’ve been watching a lot of movies set in Paris and I’ll either be amazed at the similarity or puzzled by the total difference when I go there.
Twitter: WanderingEds
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just checked and departures is on instant play at netflix – yay! not sure i like any of these other ones, though – i thought that it wasn’t so true to the japan that *i* lived in.
of course, everyone’s experiences are different!
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Love any movie which shows alot of ‘scenery’- so that I can get a feel for what a place is like.
Loved reading “Why I’ll Never be French”. That’s why I would move to France.
Twitter: lhartness
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Movies I like that may fall into this category:
**Under the Tuscan Sun (Tuscanny)
**Amadeus (Vienna)
**The Sound of Music (Austrian alps)
**Lord of the Rings trilogy (New Zealand)
**Anne of Green Gables (Prince Edward Island)
**Pride & Prejudice (’95 or ’05) (England)
They make me want to take vacations there!
Laura Hartness
The Calico Critic
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Twitter: pen4hire
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Laura: I can’t think of anything but Third Man for Vienna. They even have Third Man tours there. Isn’t Amadeus mostly interiors? Your others are right on, and maybe I’ll get around to them some day.