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Will ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ Spawn a New Magazine: Condé Nast Revolution?
by Jim Benning | 10.08.04 | 6:59 PM ET
I imagine I’m not the only travel addict who was eager to see “The Motorcycle Diaries,” the new film about Che Guevara’s youthful journey through South America. After all, it’s a road film, and done right, road films stoke wanderlust. So does “The Motorcycle Diaries” deliver? I’d say so, having seen the movie last night.
The film’s visuals are enough to make you want to hop on the next flight to Buenos Aires, Cuzco or Valparaiso. What’s more, the film captures that sense of discovery so many young travelers experience when they light out for the first time. But it’s not perfect.
A reviewer for The Nation, Stuart Klawans, hit the nail on the head with this observation: “With this much sense of visual discovery, ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ could spawn a glossy magazine: Condé Nast Revolution.” In other words, sometimes it’s a bit much.
What’s more, because the film focuses on the pre-revolutionary Che, audiences aren’t asked to consider what became of Guevara’s transformation years later. As Klawans writes: “He devoted much of his adult life to activities of the kill-or-be-killed variety. That, of course, is something that a culture of liberal self-congratulation would prefer not to contemplate. We’d rather get the T-shirt Che, only prettier.”
True enough. I’ll skip the T-shirt. But I’m a sucker for a good road movie.
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Yahoo! BuzzThe Oscar for a Film That Inpired a Life-Sized Margarine Statue of One of its Characters Goes to…
by Michael Yessis | 03.02.04 | 8:58 PM ET
What movie of the past year best captures the experience of travel? The San Francisco Chronicle’s John Flynn says Lost in Translation. “Its depiction of the jaggy, fuzzy-buzzy sensation of jetlag, of being a stranger in an exceedingly strange land and of the fleeting and surprisingly intimate connections one makes with fellow travelers is simply the best I’ve ever seen on film.”
That In-Flight Movie Could Be Hazardous to Your Health
by Jim Benning | 07.10.03 | 11:49 PM ET
According to a troubling report in USA Today, wiring problems related to the installation of in-flight entertainment systems are causing all sorts of problems on board planes, including smoke and fires. A wiring problem may have led to the 1998 Swissair crash over Nova Scotia that killed 229 people. That particular system was built by a company now out of the business. “Other systems, though, have had problems since the Swissair accident,” USA Today reports. “Safety experts say the number of service difficulty reports about entertainment system problems endangering passenger safety during the past two years could far exceed the 60 received by the FAA.” According to one expert, the 60 problems reported since the Swissair crash are “just the tip of the iceberg.”
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