Criterion Collection Themes - Road Trips
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One of cinema’s most abiding subgenres, road movies can be comedies, romances, thrillers, psychological dramas, or broader social commentaries. Tales of disillusionment or discovery, they are related to the bildungsroman, making literal the moral journeys characters undertake in that literary tradition—though modern films have often chosen to complicate that linear trajectory (some roads go in circles) or satirize the form (just ask the Leningrad Cowboys). At Criterion, we have a vast selection of movies in which the characters never really end up where they thought they would because by the time they reach their destination, they’ve become different people. Joel McCrea’s Hollywood director who finds out how the other half lives in Sullivan’s Travels may not seem to have much in common with Sandrine Bonnaire’s enigmatic drifter in Agnès Varda’s Vagabond, but both are transformed by their experiences on the open road.
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Arigatô-san
1936 — a.k.a. Mr. Thank You, in 4 top lists Check -
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Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
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Le salaire de la peur
1953 — a.k.a. The Wages of Fear, in 29 top lists Check -
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La strada
1954, in 21 top lists Check -
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Smultronstället
1957 — a.k.a. Wild Strawberries, in 23 top lists Check -
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Il sorpasso
1962 — a.k.a. The Easy Life, in 7 top lists Check -
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
1963, in 6 top lists Check -
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Pierrot le fou
1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check -
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Week End
1967 — a.k.a. Weekend, in 14 top lists Check -
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Easy Rider
1969, in 17 top lists Check -
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Five Easy Pieces
1970, in 13 top lists Check -
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Two-Lane Blacktop
1971, in 13 top lists Check -
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Touki bouki
1973 — a.k.a. Journey of the Hyena, in 9 top lists Check -
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Je tu il elle
1974 — a.k.a. Je Tu Il Elle, in 5 top lists Check -
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Les rendez-vous d'Anna
1978 — a.k.a. The Meetings of Anna, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Hit
1984, in 5 top lists Check -
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Stranger Than Paradise
1984, in 14 top lists Check -
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Paris, Texas
1984, in 21 top lists Check -
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Sans toit ni loi
1985 — a.k.a. Vagabond, in 10 top lists Check -
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Down by Law
1986, in 9 top lists Check -
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Something Wild
1986, in 5 top lists Check -
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Border Radio
1987, in 1 top list Check -
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Ariel
1988, in 2 top lists Check -
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1989, in 4 top lists Check -
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Mystery Train
1989, in 2 top lists Check -
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My Own Private Idaho
1991, in 10 top lists Check -
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Clean, Shaven
1993, in 3 top lists Check -
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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
1994, in 1 top list Check -
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Bottle Rocket
1996, in 3 top lists Check -
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Ta'm e guilass
1997 — a.k.a. Taste of Cherry, in 17 top lists Check -
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998, in 6 top lists Check -
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Y tu mamá también
2001, in 15 top lists Check
Last updated on Jun 12, 2014; source