Discussion - Road Movies
Easy Rider (1969)
What is your favorite “road” movie? Richard Pena suggests “Easy Rider,” “Bound for Glory,” or perhaps something foreign, like Wim Wenders “Kings of the Road.”
Easy Rider (1969)
What is your favorite “road” movie? Richard Pena suggests “Easy Rider,” “Bound for Glory,” or perhaps something foreign, like Wim Wenders “Kings of the Road.”
Anyone see “The Road to Zanzibar”?
I thought it was one of the best, even though the later films in the series went further and further into self-parody. I liked how Hope and Crosby’s partnership was reflected in the two girls.
Zanzibar seemed to be having fun with the conventions and cliches of the explorer films, fiction and non-fiction.
The 1985 movie “Fandango” is one of my favorite road movies. It’s also one of my favorite ‘coming-of-age’ movies (or at least ‘farewell-to-youth’). Written and directed by Kevin Reynolds and featuring Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson as part of a gang of college grads headed to Mexico, Fandango highlighted by some great comic set pieces, like hitching their car to a train or going sky diving.
Also, along side great road movie duos like Hope and Crosby or Fonda & Hopper, I nominate Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog, cruising along in a Studebaker in “The Muppet Movie.”
Tom Jones. It’s so good, you don’t think of it as a road movie, but that’s what it is–and that’s what the novel by Henry Fielding was. It made Albert Finney known to Americans who didn’t see “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.” It was the first film I ever attended where a line of ticket buyers stretched around a corner and down a street. After which, you got on a line of ticket holders which stretched around the opposite corner for another block. A clothing boutique down the street from its first run in New York took its name, (T. Jones) from it. It’s still a dynamite film to watch.
It’s not a road film per se, but it does take place in a car, and it’s so rarely aired. Terence Rattigan’s “The Yellow Rolls Royce.”
Vanishing Point (1971) - easily my favorite.
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