Films that evoke a sense of travel

Shiver me Timbers · Apr 29th, 2008, 05:00

Anyone have any recommendations? Doesn't have to be on India, just any films that you can think of that give that sense of travel, past or present?

Ignite · Apr 29th, 2008, 05:05

Eurotrip, I know its cheezy, but hey this movie really motivated me to go to Europe.

I saw the movie for the 1st time when I was 15, and I ended up going to Europe 3 years later.

PeakXV · Apr 29th, 2008, 05:14

Do you mean those that include physical scenes of trains, planes & automobile travel such as 'Murder on the Orient Express' or "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad World' or 'Airplane' or time traveller type films or just any movie with the main actors portrayed as foreigners within a strange land? Or all of the above?

Shiver me Timbers · Apr 29th, 2008, 05:28

All of the above please!!!

Darmabum · Apr 29th, 2008, 05:51

Sheltering Sky. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. I also liked The Darjeeling Limited; thought it did a reasonable job, in a Hollywood-Owen-Wilson kinda-way.

PeakXV · Apr 29th, 2008, 07:12

The Amazing Race (not a film/movie) is a production that makes you want to pack your bags and call the airport cab .......pronto!

Night Train to Kathmandu is a sort of bad, made for TV, Disney film yet does that sense(perhaps urge) for travel thing very well ... at least for me. Kind of a fun adventure/quest cum fantasy that stars a very young Milla Jovovich and filmed(in parts) on location in Bakhtapur and Kathmandu.

capt_mahajan · Apr 29th, 2008, 09:05

Dor (Hindi, the movie has nothing to do with travel), but scenes of Rajasthan and specially Himachal made me want to go there again right now.

I would see it again just for those hills and desert landscapes.

Scandojazzbuff · Apr 29th, 2008, 09:11

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Originally Posted by Darmabum

Sheltering Sky. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. I also liked The Darjeeling Limited; thought it did a reasonable job, in a Hollywood-Owen-Wilson kinda-way.

Those 2 films did it for me, too. Also, 'Valley of Flowers', 'The Kite Runner', and, 'Paris, Je T'aime'.

machadinha · Apr 29th, 2008, 10:12

Stranger Than Paradise? Heck, most any road movie. A lot of David Lynch's I suppose. That sense of being "on the road" (to nowhere fast) is very much there in many of his movies.

(Check Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation for that matter. Hardly about holidays though, LOL.)

Paris, Texas -- made me want to go and just get lost in the desert (and to smoke a lot of cigarettes while I were at it).

capt_mahajan · Apr 29th, 2008, 11:53

"The Endurance", Shakleton's antarctic expedition.

The book was pretty amazing too.

mindgames · Apr 29th, 2008, 12:23

"Around the World in 80 days" animation included?

"Orient Express"

Hindi movie "Bombay to Goa"

Car and Bus journeying "Coal Miner's Daughter"

"Titanic"

Though I have not seen"Pirates of the Carrebeanne"

abhimeranaam · Apr 29th, 2008, 12:31

Watch .......Into the Wild (2007) ........You will love the movie , with the evoking sense of traveling.

shahronakm · Apr 29th, 2008, 12:33

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Originally Posted by Scandojazzbuff

Those 2 films did it for me, too. Also, 'Valley of Flowers', 'The Kite Runner', and, 'Paris, Je T'aime'.

Valley of Flowers - Is it based on The valley of Flowers (Garhwal Region)?

Ronak.

brishti · Apr 29th, 2008, 12:51

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Originally Posted by PeakXV

The Amazing Race (not a film/movie) is a production that makes you want to pack your bags and call the airport cab .......pronto!

me too peak! [ had also done intensive research into the partner i'd race with!!! ]
but yea - that programme does it for me too.

no reservations - anthony bourdain [ slurrp ]

mach: talking about paris texas - wim-wenders has a book on his photographs of roads... amazing stuff - this link has just some of the stuff.

abhimeranaam: yup, Into the Wild made me fall in love with the tundra yet again... great movie about roading it in the US.

and my all time favourite read is hungry tide by amitava ghosh... just have to make it to the sunderbans some day soon.

:brishti

devleenas · Apr 29th, 2008, 14:31

1.Seven years in Tibet

2.Motorcycle Diaries

3. The Bridges of Madison County - makes me feel like travelling and photographing the world like Robert Kincaid and ofcourse the pell mell rusty truck

4.Swiss family Robinson

: The idea of being stranded on Coral Island is always so alluring

Apr 29th, 2008, 05:00	#1
Shiver me Timbers Maha Guru Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,325	Films that evoke a sense of travel Anyone have any recommendations? Doesn't have to be on India, just any films that you can think of that give that sense of travel, past or present? __________________ Europe to India Overland Andaman's Tips Pakistan Tips

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Ignite American Desi Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The City of Angels, California Posts: 375	Eurotrip, I know its cheezy, but hey this movie really motivated me to go to Europe. I saw the movie for the 1st time when I was 15, and I ended up going to Europe 3 years later. __________________ I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

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PeakXV Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap Posts: 3,516	Do you mean those that include physical scenes of trains, planes & automobile travel such as 'Murder on the Orient Express' or "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad World' or 'Airplane' or time traveller type films or just any movie with the main actors portrayed as foreigners within a strange land? Or all of the above? __________________ We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started ...and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot http://www.indiamike.com/images/smokin.gif Don't go to India ~ Pre-trip Warnings & Misconceptions?

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Darmabum Maha Guru Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: in the mountains of Idaho Posts: 728	Paul Bowle's . . . Sheltering Sky. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. I also liked The Darjeeling Limited; thought it did a reasonable job, in a Hollywood-Owen-Wilson kinda-way. __________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure - Marianne Williamson

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PeakXV Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap Posts: 3,516	The Amazing Race (not a film/movie) is a production that makes you want to pack your bags and call the airport cab .......pronto! Night Train to Kathmandu is a sort of bad, made for TV, Disney film yet does that sense(perhaps urge) for travel thing very well ... at least for me. Kind of a fun adventure/quest cum fantasy that stars a very young Milla Jovovich and filmed(in parts) on location in Bakhtapur and Kathmandu. Last edited by PeakXV : Apr 29th, 2008 at 09:17.

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Shiver me Timbers Maha Guru Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,325	All of the above please!!!

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capt_mahajan Reproof of life Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: India Posts: 7,711	Dor (Hindi, the movie has nothing to do with travel), but scenes of Rajasthan and specially Himachal made me want to go there again right now. I would see it again just for those hills and desert landscapes. __________________ . The cynic must remember that he is a spy (Epitectus) Indiamike moderating team :- Odd mod out

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machadinha Not Your Guru Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: yörp Posts: 8,498	Stranger Than Paradise? Heck, most any road movie. A lot of David Lynch's I suppose. That sense of being "on the road" (to nowhere fast) is very much there in many of his movies. (Check Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation for that matter. Hardly about holidays though, LOL.) Paris, Texas -- made me want to go and just get lost in the desert (and to smoke a lot of cigarettes while I were at it). __________________ Reading tips, all picked up at IndiaMike : INDAX's A Comprehensive Guide To India / Dinoj Surendran's Desi Humor / ITHVC on Culture Shock & Travel Health / JetLag Travel Guides For the Undiscerning Traveller / India Travel Links

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capt_mahajan Reproof of life Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: India Posts: 7,711	"The Endurance", Shakleton's antarctic expedition. The book was pretty amazing too.

Apr 29th, 2008, 12:23	#11
mindgames Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Chennai Posts: 69	Travel movies "Around the World in 80 days" animation included? "Orient Express" Hindi movie "Bombay to Goa" Car and Bus journeying "Coal Miner's Daughter" "Titanic" Though I have not seen"Pirates of the Carrebeanne"

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abhimeranaam Abhishek Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Lucknow Posts: 31	Watch .......Into the Wild (2007) ........You will love the movie , with the evoking sense of traveling. __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/abhi_sinha/

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devleenas Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Bangalore Posts: 87	1.Seven years in Tibet 2.Motorcycle Diaries 3. The Bridges of Madison County - makes me feel like travelling and photographing the world like Robert Kincaid and ofcourse the pell mell rusty truck 4.Swiss family Robinson : The idea of being stranded on Coral Island is always so alluring

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