Book Review: The Motorcycle Diaries

Book Review: The Motorcycle Diaries 12Aug08 Ernesto “Che” Guevara, known more for his revolutionary politics than his writing by many, has chronicled a motorcycle trip around South America that he took as a young man with his friend ... and hundreds of kilometers of wilderness on their motorcycle to complete the journey. Through [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 21:06:17

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Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’: ‘Almost Unreleasable in its Current Form’

That seems to be the consensus of those who saw the biopic at the Cannes Film Festival. While Benicio Del Toro (pictured) ... ?ve and incomplete, at worst sentimental and dishonest.” “The Motorcycle Diaries,” which I loved ... of all this. Related on World Hum: * Will ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ Spawn a New Magazine: Cond? Nast [more...]

Date: 2008-05-28 18:07:45

Expanding Horizons Challenge Wrap-Up

Well, we have finally moved the computer out of our bedroom, where Maya also sleeps ... April 2008) 3. Hispanic/Latin American The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevera (Finished 20 April 2008 ... feelings.What book could I have done without: The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevera. It wasn't [more...]

Date: 2008-05-14 01:00:26

My Aching Ass (or, the Cambodian Motorcycle Diaries)

My Aching Ass (or, the Cambodian Motorcycle Diaries) filed in Site News on Oct.07, 2008 I’m going to write a more detailed account of my day with photos soon, but wanted to post this quick summary [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 06:39:14

Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo Are Celestial

Harold wrote to us about: Bill Pullman and John Leguizamo are attached to star in Celestina for Esperanza Productions. The film centers on a pregnant woman desperately searching for the father of her child. Celestina will be executive produced by director Walter Salles of The Motorcycle Diaries fame. Diaries [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 00:04:27

The Motorcycle Diaries [SOUNDTRACK]

The Motorcycle Diaries.jpg (23 KB) Soundtrack to 2003 film adaptation of Che Guevara\’s \’Motorcycle Diaries\’. Details TBA. Universal. 2004. –This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Country [more...]

Date: 2008-07-06 03:04:27

The Next ‘Into the Wild’? With a Touch of ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’?

I’ve no idea whether there’s a book or film in the works based on this recent front page story in the Los Angeles Times, ... Club: ‘Into the Wild’ * Will ‘Motorcycle Diaries’ Spawn a New Magazine: Cond? Nast Revolution? [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 16:23:28

It’s Over!

September that is! Fall appears to have arrived for good and all of this rain has made the end of summer feel more like the beginning of spring ... Series featuring The Motorcycle Diaries. I heard nothing but good things about this movie and I’m sure ... and creative. I first stumbled across a Post Secret book a few years ago and found myself captivated [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 15:16:16

What’s your favorite movie?

“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them ... compares as purveyor of information; think Michael Moore, think Oliver Stone, think The Motorcycle Diaries, the truth cannot compete with a successful big screen image. Films engage all our senses [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 18:09:08

Mailbag

Stop praising Che Allow me to register my complete and utter lack of shock over the fact that the Daily Wildcat has yet again demonstrated its extreme left-wing bias. Your coverage of the Gallagher Theater's showing of “The Motorcycle Diaries” was chock-full of glowing coverage of the so-called “revolutionary” Che Guevara. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 14:27:05

Linha De Passe - Review

AT A time when most movies coming out of Brazil at the moment seem to be concentrating on gang violence and police corruption around Rio, ... (who remains best known for The Motorcycle Diaries) has succeeded in crafting another compelling portrait ... , 200 kilometres of traffic jams and 300,000 motorcycle messengers. Denis (Joao Baldasserini), Dinho [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 09:08:54

An Honest Report on Campus Bloggers Meet

Is blogging an easy task? Is it for everybody? What are the basics that one needs to know before he sets foot in this mysterious world of words, ... . DSC00730 Seeing vosree.com, one gets the distinct feeling of being within a campus. The motorcycle diaries, the lab stories, the pranks and the trivial comments all go a long way in setting [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 13:28:11

Dark Water

Reviewer: Lee Griffiths Issue 72 Xmas 2005 Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it ... have a far more serious problem than dodgy plumbing. Review: Water doesn’t make a very effective ... as a whole. Delivering such cinematic gems as The Motorcycle Diaries and Central Station [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 15:21:03

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round...

Transportation in Cali still proves to be an interesting and sometimes frightening part of my daily life. Not only could I still continue to write my motorcycle diaries (my friend, Paola, often gives me a ride to class on her bike), but I could produce an entire book filled with my regular escapades [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 17:07:00

The Motorcycle Diaries (Part 1)

In riding a motorbike you enter a close relationship between yourself and a collection of nuts, bolts, pistons and gears ... and discover which parts rattle and vibrate, and as such which parts start to fall off at which point ... to still make this relic of a bygone era. Engine, gearbox, clutch, chain and wheels, the minimal [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 13:56:22

“My eyes traced the immense vault of heaven; the starry sky twinkled happily above me, as if answering in the affirmative to the question rising deep within me: ‘Is all of this worth it?’” Ernesto “Che” Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries. One of the best things about this fulltime RV [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 01:15:54

Status Update: ‘On the Road,’ the Movie

It’s been a little over a year since we noted that the movie version of Jack Kerouac’s classic book was slated to be filmed in 2008 by Walter Salles, director of “The Motorcycle Diaries.” The new timetable? The Independent’s James Mottram quotes Salles saying he’ll “be shooting either at the end of this year or the beginning [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 16:37:48

Vincent Gagliostro’s St. Gael Vernissage

Last Thursday night was the opening of my partner Vincent’s new art installation St. Gael ... Education”, “Motorcycle Diaries” and “Babel”. Years of surfing the internet searching for photos ... here it’s done with images of Gael and other pop culture figures. The soundtrack is interviews [more...]

Date: 2008-05-19 04:01:04

Motorcycle Diaries XVII: a Masochistic Love Affair with Jordan

Picture courtesy of Lilia Araj. Why do I love my country? - The question keeps torturing me. Most pressing of all, apart from what they taught us in first grade and what certain billboards tried to achieve in recent years, do we really have to nurture such an emotion at all? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 12:24:43

A Top Ten Movie List

Memes. I have a love/hate relationship with memes. When I’m tagged, I kind of cringe a bit, initially, ... . That said, here is my list of my top ten favorite movies of all time: The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto “Che ... one! I am a huge move and DVD fanatic. My wife and I love collecting DVDs. Some day [more...]

Date: 2008-05-14 15:48:15

My Reviews - Alphabetical by Title

44 Scotland Street, McCall Smith A Dog So Small, Pearce A Fine Balance, Mistry A Kestrel for A Knave, Hines A Pure Swift Cry, ... of Dreams, Behren The Inheritance of Loss, Desai The Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara The Night Watch ... , Gaiman Stuart: A Life Backwards, Masters Tatty, Dwyer Hickey The Alchemist, Coelho The Book of Dave [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 23:23:13

Are You Talking To Me?

Trailer Addict - Trailer and movie fans will find that Trailer Addict is quite a comprehensive resource ... the liberty of recommending you some of my faves: Fight Club, The Motorcycle Diaries ... is a great feature. Before visiting the theaters, renting a DVD or demanding a movie. I view [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 18:41:17

10 Movies That I Like

I am also going through a strange cinematic phase of life ... I can’t watch it again because the weeping.) 4. The Motorcycle Diaries 3. Along Came Polly (I’ ... to buy the DVD. That’s fair, isn’t it? I can recognize museum art as being of good quality even [more...]

Date: 2008-05-16 15:26:05

My Reviews - Alphabetical by Author

Daughter of Fortune, Allende Regeneration, Barker The Law of Dreams, Behren A Walk in the Woods, Bryson Junky, Burroughs The Plague, ... The Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara Siddartha, Hesse Tatty, Dwyer Hickey A Kestrel for A Knave, Hines Journey ... , Desai A Pure Swift Cry, Dowd The Red Queen, Drabble Silas Marner, Elliot The Unabridged Pocket Book [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 23:09:30

Random Notes at 3 AM

* Nick is coming to India again!! :) * Megan's going back to the US just before her birthday :( * Love the new drinks from Yogi Vita - imli, amla, nimboo, kokum * Picked a new book - The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara * Workout schedules have gone awry. I need discipline! * Personal [more...]

Date: 2007-07-05 03:39:00

A Film Review by Sweet Pickles

Bridget Jones' Motorcycle Diaries An awkward thirtysomething Brit, bored with her life, makes a New Year's resolution to travel on motorcycle across South America.  Her transformative journey exposes her to social injustices that inspire her to champion the causes of the oppressed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 21:06:15

Annie Lennox Talks Amnesty To Filmmaker

Written by Tim Saunders Singer Annie Lennox has been collaborating with Mexican filmmaker Gael Garcia Bernal on a new film for Amnesty International. Bernal – who is best known for his performance as Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries – is currently working on the film, titled Resist, to be released in 2009. He spent [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 14:00:00

The ‘not a motorcycle’ diaries

Day 1 I admonished a scooter-boy on his use of the bicycle lane earlier. He pulled up beside me and attempted to hold forth on the irony of my pointing out his illegal action while I ran a red light. I wanted to retort with “Don’t you mean hypocracy? [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 17:28:14

Winding Down… ish.

Surprisingly, recent life has been fairly chill.  Last weekend I helped out with the second annual Youth Environmental Summit on campus ... (you know, Motorcycle Diaries style) but I’m not sure that would fly with my parents. We shall see [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 22:13:02

Two New Kerouac Books This Fall

For anyone keeping score, it’s worth noting that the late great Jack Kerouac has two more books out this fall ... of ON THE ROAD next year. Walter Salles (THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) is directing in connection with Francis Ford ... . The new one due in November will be his 40th title.  The long-awaited book version of WAKE [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 10:30:59

Mute

My neighbours recently held a bhajan party. It involves calling a lot of Hindus together and singing devotional songs and clapping in unison ... The Motorcycle Diaries and was not that impressed. Guess it was a case of too much buildup and also [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 08:05:49

100% agree

...with pretty much everything up there, apart from certain people annoyingly dissing other's choices ... to go stratospheric one of these days. Honourable mention also to The Motorcycle Diaries. In response to many [more...]

Date: 2008-08-03 09:08:25

so i've managed to find time...

...to go to the cinema a couple of times in the last fortnight. Last week I went to see I Am Legend ... is) is absolutely stunning, and is done by the same guy that did The Motorcycle Diaries, another beautiful ... . And might I add that it is well worth seeing at the cinema, rather than renting on dvd. I won't [more...]

Date: 2008-01-04 19:18:00

The infamous music shuffle fate karma effect.. or how I embraced the tag fad

Ok I’ll stick to the rules and say it…. tagged…by….Ni3Na3aH The Rules are: 1. Put Your iTunes/ music player on Shuffle 2 ... Caliente - The motorcycle diaries soundtrack - LIE! they think I’m an angel, which, come to think ... America, fuck yeah!’ - Team america soundtrack - Radical! 2.WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 11:15:11

Idolizing Both Che and Obama

Unfortunately Maria Isabel — the Obama campaigner worker fond of displaying flags that feature communist executioner Che Guevara — is not unique: [ ... them NOW! From his Motorcycle Diaries, which acolyte Robert Redford managed to edit [more...]

Date: 2008-06-14 20:38:21

Andrew Klavan: ‘5 Myths About Those Tinseltown Liberals’

  Enablers Of Evil Hollywood’s a Bizarro World where lies are truth, facts are not, wrong is right, and bad is good ... was a dashing, romantic liberator instead of a charismatic killer (”The Motorcycle Diaries” [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 16:16:57

IDAF’s Observations on his Month-long Trip Around Syria

IDAF's Observations on his Month-long Trip Around Syria For Syria Comment My Dear Friend Ehsani ( ... you paint is not the complete one, neither of Aleppo nor of Syria in general. During our three hour chat ... on ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’, I managed to break my earlier record and drove close to 2500 KM in less [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 01:44:46

Jorge Drexler, Union Chapel, Thurs 19th

londres-junho-2008-078.jpg Jorge Drexler was one of South America’s best-kept secrets until he went an won an oscar in 2004 for the soundtrack to Che Guevara flick “The Motorcycle Diaries”. Although the softly-spoken Uruguayan now lives in Spain his appearance at London’s Union Chapel was his first ever UK performance. [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 06:45:22

Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo Are Celestial

Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo Are Celestial November 20, 2008 – 11: ... will be executive produced by director Walter Salles of The Motorcycle Diaries fame. Diaries scribe [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 03:21:31

PATC Review - Linha De Passe

Linha De Passe - 15 By film critic Matthew Perry Slightly irritating drama from directing double act Walter Salles (the Motorcycle Diaries) and Daniela Thomas is about four brothers from the slums of Sao Paulo, and the various ways they try to improve their lives. The cast are almost entirely making their film [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 15:00:58

Another CHE? No Way!

Another CHE? No Way! Yes way. And you can watch it here… Read on. Before Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious, two-feature Che (The Argentine and Guerilla), there was another film about Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. No, not The Motorcycle Diaries. The forgotten 1969 bomb Che! (I didn’t add the exclamation point, it’s in the title [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 02:47:48

Ewan McGregor's Motorcycle Diaries

Ewan McGregor and his buddy Charley Boorman travel from Scotland to South Africa on motorbikes in "Long Way Down," a special for the FOX Reality Channel, which follows their 15,000 mile journey across two continents and countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 07:10:00

Reviews: De-Lovely / Spanglish / The Downfall / Motorcycle Diaries

238. De-Lovely (2004) A musical's only as good as its music and this one has some kickass tunes. Why don't we have songwriters like Cole Porter anymore? Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd really support the music, too, with some terrific singing and dancing (if that's really their voices, anyway. ;) ) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 09:13:57

On the Road may in fact be on the road

(photo by Thomas Hawk) This must be the week for the movies ... , who directed The Motorcycle Diaries and who seems quialified, and Francis Ford Coppola, who has seen ... bought the rights in 1979. Since then, the book that William Burroughs said “sent countless kids [more...]

Date: 2008-09-13 01:36:39

The Motorcycle Diaries

Freakingly brilliant movie, about the transformation of Che Guevera from a medical student into a communist revolutionary. Brilliant photography capturing the landscape of Latin America. Watch it even if you are not a Che Guevera admirer. IMDB [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 05:28:37

Derek’s Top 10 Favorite Movies

    The Motorcycle Diaries. My #1 favorite movie of all time ... America with only their feet and a motorcycle.  You begin to see hints of his transformation ... the audio soundtrack- the movie has a fantastic soundtrack that’s been recycled in many movies since [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 06:17:40

Jack Kerouac's On The Road: The Movie (finally?)

After multiple false starts dating clear back to when Jack Kerouac was alive - he frequently mentions potential movie deals in his letters* - it ... for the Oscar-nominated The Motorcycle Diaries, "are facing Kerouac’s meandering prose head-on, transforming [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 15:29:32

Now showing: Trailer of international film with Pinay actress

MARIFE Necesito, who landed an important role in “Mammoth,” which stars Academy and Golden Globe Award nominee, Michelle Williams, ... s enjoying a sterling international career with such films as “Babel,” “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Amores [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 01:22:35

Choosing a DVD Rental Service

Any DVD rental service worth its salt should stock the following DVDs: An Inconvenient Truth Infernal Affairs Rashomon Pather Panchali High Noon Fargo Reservoir Dogs Jesus Camp Curb Your Enthusiasm The Motorcycle Diaries Most of these are the best [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 07:06:27

Most anticipated films of Toronto

Armed with the fat program book, ... I have wanted to see this since I first heard it was in development. I loved “The Motorcycle Diaries,” Walter [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 14:36:03

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