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Which Movies Would You Take to a Desert Island?
Once I board the plane to Rome next month, it will take 15 hours of travel before I get there. In preparation for the journey, I’m compiling a list of movies to download for the trip. I’ve taken a bit of a lead from David Lynch. Are any of these among your favorites? Write-ins welcome!
Update add-ons: The Best of Youth (GREAT Italian melodrama) and 1979 classic, Breaking Away.
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All the movies in your poll are good choices, but have you thought about focusing on Italian films or films set in Italy? Here are a few to consider:
Summertime – 1955, Katherine Hepburn
The Secret of Santa Vittoria -Anthony Quinn
The Bicycle Theif -1948
Roman Holiday -1953
Only You – 1994
Bread and Tulips
Il Postino
Cinema Paradiso
La Dolce Vida
Under the Tuscan Sun
I could probably go on and on, but you get the idea…
“A Room With A View.” One of my favorite movies and even though the characters are English, the film is about Italy — the Italy in us all, especially when it comes to passion.
It doesn’t do the film justice, but here’s a little scene:
Revered Beebe: It’s not coincidental that you’re here now, when one comes to reflect on it.
George Emerson: I have reflected. It’s fate. Everything is fate.
Revered Beebe: You’ve not reflected at all. Let me cross-examine you. Where did you meet Mr. Vyse, who will marry Miss Honeychurch?
George Emerson: The National Gallery.
Revered Beebe: Looking at Italian art! You see, you talk of coincidence and fate. You’re naturally drawn to things Italian, as are we and all our friends, aren’t we Freddy? That narrows the field immeasurably.
George Emerson: It is fate. But call it Italy if pleases you Vicar.