14.5.12

Movies to To Get the Travel Bug


Movies with scenes in Rome and Italy-- And now, Woody Allen's To Rome with Love
•Mission Impossible III (Tom climbs the wall of the Vatican)
•Portrait of a Lady (based on Henry James novel)
•The Talented Mr. Ripley (Matt Damon, set in1950s)
•Gladiator-5 academy awards!  (Russell Crowe)
•Pink Panther 2 (Steve Martin impersonates/interrogates the Pope)
•HBO’s Roma (Love this series on ancient Rome!!)
•When in Rome (Kristen Bell, surprisingly few scenes!); also this film with Olsen twins
•Ocean’s Twelve
•Eat, Pray, Love (Julia Roberts in Rome)
•Nurse Betty (Renee Zellweger in Rome)
•Hudson Hawk (Bruce Wilis in Rome)
•Under the Tuscan Sun (Cortona, Tuscany and Positano on Amalfi Coast)
•The Italian Job (boat scenes in Venice)
•Dangerous Beauty (Venice)
•Much Ado about Nothing (Tuscany)
•Angels and Demons (great scenes of Rome, and Papal election in Sistine Chapel)
•Only You (Marisa Tomei/Robert Downey--Rome and Amalfi coast; they eat in Trastevere!!)
•National Lampoon’s European Vacation (lots of scenes of Rome!)
•A Room with a View (E.M. Forster’s novel, Florence)
•Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck (a favorite--her posters will be
everywhere in Rome), 1953
•Portrait of a Lady (1996 version of Henry James’ 1881 book)
•La Dolce Vita with Anita Ekberg
•Three Coins from a Fountain, 1954
•The Agony and the Ecstasy
•Cinema Paradiso (Sicily)
•Bread and Tulips (Venice)
•Il Postino (Sicily)
•Ciao, Professore!

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