Everyone has their favourite road movie: Easy Rider; Two lane blacktop; A bout de souffle: Thelma and Louise: Beetle juice..... All great movies - but my nomination (and I just watched it again tonight) is David Lynch's Straight Story: no chicks, no chevies - just a old man with a mission: "Because gramps like us,baby we were born to run".
What's your favourite road movie? Have I missed any of the greats out?
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I highly recommend two early movies by Wim Wenders (lesser known):
Alice in the Cities, where a young man gets stuck taking a child back to her grandparents in Germany and...
Kings of the Road, about a young man (played by the same actor -- Rudiger Vogler-- as in Alice) who is a movie projector repairman who travels around Germany
Not exactly 'old school' but a great movie all the same and 'loosely' based on a true story of Ché Guevara's travels. I recently visited his home in north Argentina
Motor Cycle Diaries
Well worth a look!
I've thought about this one all day; even went to a web list to see if I was overlooking any (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/roadmovies.html)
The problem is, I know what I've enjoyed in a road movie (actually a bit of a buddy movie), but I can't actually place it to a title.
Still thinking...'need something better than Planes, Trains... gotta stop hanging on on Thelma & Louise, too...I didn't even like that one.
I was going to say Alice in the Cities too!
I've never seen Kings of the Road, so I'll look out for that - thanks anonymous.
Tx for the feedback on this. I always liked Wim Wenders - though I don't remember seeing Alice- and Motorcycle Diaries has been on my "to see" list for a while.
These suggesions actually touches on a sore point - one of the biggest down sides of being an ex-pat. Here in the NL foreign films are only ever subtitled into Dutch. That means most that the most interesting movies in the DVD store and at the art house cinema up the road are out of reach to me. On a good evening when my brain is feeling sharp I can risk a French movie but basically World movies are no longer accesible to me. I miss that very much. I and my fellow film-loving non-fluent Dutch ex-pat friends have lobbied the managers concerned and tried telling them what a big client base of non-Dutch speaking students they are missing- but if the product is not there then I guess they can't supply it. As a result my movie watching has gone down by about 75% since I moved here. I miss having windows into other peoples cultures.
PS I missed three classics off my list - Robert Altman's "Night on Earth", Hideously Kinky and To the ends of the Earth (/World?). The last is a particular favourite.
PPS I hope Dave doesn't stay up all night trying to recall the ones that moved him.
Nick, could you join Lovefilm? They post out DVDs to you on loan, you can choose a tariff based on the number you want per month. Check it out, it seems very good value to me.
Me again... how did I fail to mention O Brother Where Art Thou??
It must have the best soundtrack of any film ever! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdgrfr0Bkk
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