#8. “Marie Antoinette” (2006) If I could find the modern-day travel-writer equivalent of Sofia Coppola, I’d be ecstatic. She basically took the tried-and-true formula of period pieces and turned it upside down. And not without a serious fight. We need the same for travel. “Marie Antoinette” garnered more headlines for being booed during the Cannes film [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Travel Movies We Love'
Travel Movies We Love: Marie Antoinette’s Equivalent of Martha Stewart’s Turkey Hill
March 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Travel Movies We Love
Travel Movies We Love: The CGI Girl in the Curl
March 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Travel Movies We Love
#9. “Blue Crush” (2002) To be clear, “Blue Crush” is not a good movie. If you look closely enough, you can distinctly make out a CGI head of Kate Bosworth on some other real surfer-lady body. “Blue Crush” is only good in that good-bad way, like Patrick Swayze movies are good-bad. “Riding Giants” shows the [...]
Travel Movies We Love: The Africa Movie without Meryl Streep
March 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Travel Movies We Love
#10. Nowhere in Africa (2001) I was immediately transported the first time I saw Out of Africa. Meryl Streep, vast swaths of the Serengeti. Robert Redford. What’s not to love? It immediately made me want to go to the continent. The problem, unfortunately, is that because it came out in 1985, it now feels very [...]
Travel Movies We Love: The Giveaway!
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Novelty, Travel Movies We Love
We love movies that inspire us to travel almost as much as we love travel itself. We’re counting down our top 10 travel films and would like you to be a part of it. Post a comment on any of the 10 movies as we count them down or tweet out a link to these [...]
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