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| Wild At Heart (1990) |
-Wild At Heart and Kalifornia are classics of the crazed road movies of the early 1990s and feature a bunch of trendy actors (Nicholas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe and Crispin Glover in the former and Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis and David Duchovny in the later), but they're both rather tiresome a decade or so on. They can work as time capsules, if you want to see how over-heated the times were.
-For a complete change of pace, try Ken
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| Horatio's Drive (2003) |
Burns' Horatio's Drive, which is a 2003 recreation of the first recorded cross-country drive in the U.S. that was made for PBS. What Horatio Nelson went through 100 years ago staggers the imagination. Consider that at one point he had to wait for a stage coach to bring a replacement part out from San Francisco,
-Finally, a pair of films from the parts of North America that don't get a lot of time on English-speaking screens but are extremely entertaining in their own ways -- Quebec-Montreal and Y Tu Mama Tambien.
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| Québec-Montréal (2002) |
The Canadian film from 2002 follows a small group of characters as they travel along Route 40 in La Belle Province in separate cars and how their lives intersect and change along the way. The scenes with the three guys hurrying to catch a plane to the Caribbean for a holiday are the most affecting.
As for the Spanish language film, it was one of the best movies of the last few years. A pair of callow, well-to-do youths from Mexico City head to a deserted beach with a gorgeous older woman, but things don't turn out as they'd hoped. A movie about the grand truths of life, and one of the best sex-in-a-car scenes ever in any language.
