Tag: Movies
What’s With All These Travel Horror Movies, Anyway?
by Eva Holland | 11.03.08 | 11:33 AM ET
When Eli Ellison and I first started working on our list of 13 Great Travel Horror Movies, I thought we’d stumbled onto a tiny film niche, a sub-sub-genre. Then we started brainstorming, Googling and asking friends and family for suggestions. To my surprise, our list of candidates—much like a B-movie monster—just kept getting bigger and scarier.
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by Eva Holland, Eli Ellison | 10.29.08 | 4:43 PM ET
Eva Holland and Eli Ellison sift through the carnage to pick their favorites -- and lose a little sleep doing so
The Critics: ‘Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains’
by Eva Holland | 10.29.08 | 10:56 AM ET
It’s been 15 years since Alive brought to the big screen the story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes. The survivors, rescued after 72 days, made news around the world when it was revealed that they had eaten the bodies of their dead comrades to survive. Now, a new documentary has been released that rehashes the grim story.
World Hum Travel Movie Club: ‘The Art of Travel’
by Eli Ellison, Eva Holland | 10.09.08 | 5:53 PM ET
Borat (Er, Bruno?) Busted In Italy
by Eva Holland | 09.30.08 | 9:13 AM ET
Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen was arrested in Milan this weekend after leaping onto the runway during a fashion show, the CBC reports. The actor is currently at work on a new movie, but this time, his traveling Kazakh journalist Borat will be replaced by another Cohen favorite—roving Austrian fashion reporter, Bruno. The new flick, the catchy-titled “Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt”, is due out next summer. There’s no word yet on another accompanying guidebook.
R.I.P. Paul Newman
by Eva Holland | 09.29.08 | 12:15 AM ET
Among his countless contributions to film, Newman voiced an elderly race car in one of our favorite travel race movies. For the legendary actor-philanthropist, it probably wasn’t a career highlight. But we enjoyed it.
10 Great Travel Race Movies
by Eva Holland, Eli Ellison | 09.12.08 | 10:57 AM ET
Slow travel is well and good. But there's something irresistible about a great travel race movie. World Hum Travel Movie Clubbers Eva Holland and Eli Ellison share their favorite vicarious thrill rides.
Affairs to Remember—On-Screen and Off
by Eva Holland | 07.31.08 | 10:48 AM ET
From "Roman Holiday" to "Before Sunrise," Hollywood has understood the appeal of the overseas fling. Eva Holland explains the staying power of the big screen Euro-romance.
Rome Braces for the ‘Dan Brown Effect’
by Michael Yessis | 06.26.08 | 12:03 PM ET
What does it mean when a world-class city like Rome looks to a big budget movie with a big American star to boost tourism? And what if that movie, “Angels and Demons,” the prequel to “The Da Vinci Code,” allegedly undermines the Roman Catholic Church? As Tom Hanks and company finish filming the movie based on Dan Brown’s book, those questions are being debated in Rome—and in the pages of the New York Times.
R.I.P. Sydney Pollack
by Jim Benning | 05.27.08 | 5:24 PM ET
Among other career highlights, of course, he brought Isak Dinesen’s “Out of Africa” to the big screen.
World Hum Travel Movie Club: ‘Into The Wild’
by Eli Ellison, Eva Holland | 03.04.08 | 11:44 AM ET
By now, you know the story. In 1990, a 22-year-old college grad named Christopher McCandless renounced his privileged upbringing, adopted the nom de drifter Alexander Supertramp, and turned to a new life of vagabonding. Two years later, Alaskan moose hunters found his corpse in an abandoned Fairbanks city bus outside Denali National Park. Jon Krakauer pieced together Chris’s odyssey and wrote the bestseller Into the Wild. Sean Penn‘s movie version of the book, which hit theaters last fall, arrives today on DVD. Eva Holland and Eli Ellison gave the disc a spin, exchanged e-mails and debated Hollywood’s adaptation of Into the Wild in the debut of the World Hum Travel Movie Club.
Out of the Wild? Alaskan Town Considers Removing McCandless Bus
by Eva Holland | 10.19.07 | 5:57 AM ET
Future “McCandless pilgrims” could be in for a disappointment. The Alaskan town of Healy, located about 40 kilometers from the old school bus where Christopher McCandless died, is considering the removal, restoration or destruction of the bus before the next wave of greenhorns, inspired by the recent film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” arrive to pay tribute.
‘The Darjeeling Limited’: A New Wanderers’ Classic?
by Elisabeth Eaves | 10.09.07 | 11:53 AM ET
Hollywood rarely produces a great travel film. It endlessly mines the road trip for material but doesn’t get at the actual experience of travel, the drama of which, for most of us, involves neither bad guys nor tragic endings, but rather logistical snafus and the occasional small epiphany. So it was with trepidation that I approached director Wes Anderson’s new movie The Darjeeling Limited, about three bumbling brothers on a train trip through India. By the end, though, I wanted to join the protagonists as they ran, yet again, for the train. “The Darjeeling Limited” is a fresh and funny lesson in that most ancient piece of travel wisdom—it’s about the journey, stupid, not the destination.
‘Into the Wild’: Has the Truth About Christopher McCandless Been Lost?
by Michael Yessis | 08.27.07 | 12:57 PM ET
As the hype for Sean Penn’s movie adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” grows, and Outside revisits one of its most famous stories, Men’s Journal has weighed in with a less-reverent take on the life of Christopher McCandless. Matthew Power asks: “Was his death a Shakespearean tragedy or a pitch-black comedy of errors? What impact has the tale and its renown had on our perception of Alaska? And perhaps most tantalizingly: Did Krakauer, and now Penn, get key parts of the story wrong?”
Outside Magazine Returns ‘Into the Wild’
by Michael Yessis | 08.15.07 | 10:25 AM ET
Based on Outside’s coverage of Sean Penn’s upcoming film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” I’m upgrading my hopes about its quality. Christopher Keyes visited the set and compiled an oral history of the making of the movie for the September issue. He reveals that Penn has the support of the family of the movie’s subject, Christopher McCandless, and was apparently meticulous with the details of the story.
Video: ‘Airplane!’ vs. ‘Zero Hour’
by Michael Yessis | 08.03.07 | 11:03 AM ET
“Airplane!,” a comedy classic and one of the greatest travel movies ever made, was famously inspired by the 1957 B-movie Zero Hour. How inspired? YouTuber icecoldkatie has meticulously spliced together scenes from each movie, demonstrating Picasso’s maxim, “Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.” See for yourself after the jump.
‘The Simpsons Movie’: From Serbia to Springfield, New Zealand
by Jim Benning | 07.31.07 | 11:22 AM ET
Of course, “The Simpsons” has been a near global phenomenon for years, but the recent release of “The Simpsons Movie” gave the Los Angeles Times a fine excuse to explore just how widespread the animated family’s popularity is—and the resulting challenges producers face. Today’s story notes, among other oddities, the 12-foot-tall glazed donut sculpture built by Fox at the entrance to Springfield, New Zealand, a town so small it doesn’t have a movie theater but that, nevertheless, drew more than 3,000 people last week to “eat hot dogs, doughnuts and French fries and to greet Homer and Bart, who took the train from Christchurch 65 kilometers away for the event.” The show gets dubbed into 15 languages, but the movie has been dubbed into 31 languages, including Dutch and Thai. Adding all the required voice-overs hasn’t been easy.
A Traveler’s Take on Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’
by Jim Benning | 07.23.07 | 3:12 PM ET
Forget the controversial fact-checking piece CNN’s Sanjay Gupta put together for Michael Moore’s documentary on health care, “Sicko.” Now, the San Francisco Chronicle’s John Flinn—ever the provocateur columnist—takes Moore to task for his coverage of foreign hospitals, based entirely on Flinn’s own unplanned visits to hospitals in France, Cuba and elsewhere during his travels. “Michael Moore got it all wrong about the French health care system in his new movie, ‘Sicko,’” Flinn writes. “The best part isn’t that the government sends workers out to the homes of new mothers to do their laundry. It’s that French hospital meals come with wine. I don’t know how Moore, who seems rather starry-eyed over la belle France in the film, forgot to include that nugget.”
‘Into the Wild’: Sean Penn Adapts Jon Krakauer’s Book for the Big Screen
by Michael Yessis | 07.20.07 | 10:26 AM ET
Sean Penn lined up some impressive talent for his adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s beloved book Into the Wild, the story of twentysomething Christopher McCandless’s self-imposed exile from mainstream society and tragic journey into the Alaskan wilds. Penn wrote and directed the film, which stars Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Zach Galifianakis, William Hurt and others. Eddie Vedder and Gustavo Santaolalla contribute to the soundtrack. The movie opens Sept. 21, and already I’m getting that dueling “I can’t wait to see it/I can’t believe what an awful idea this is” feeling of seeing a favorite book get turned into a movie.
Chris Doyle: The Art of Jumping on Beds and the ‘50,000 Beds’ Project
by Michael Yessis | 07.20.07 | 9:48 AM ET
Photo of Chris Doyle, courtesy of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Forty-five artists shot videos and films in hotel rooms. Michael Yessis asks the man behind the effort what intrigues him about hotel rooms, as well as the seductiveness of jumping on hotel room beds.