Author: CD Damitio
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Fellini’s 8 1/2: An Honest Review
8 1/2 Federico Fellini’s film 8 ½. It was not what I expected. It was marvelous. It was the story of a man who is looking at his life…
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Extraordinary Vagabond – Ed Buryn – Vagabond King
Travel is not just moving over the earth from one place to another in some kind of conveyance. It’s not about where you’re going or how you’re getting there. It’s…
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James Michener’s Hawaii (Movie starring Julie Andrews) Reviewed by a 9-year-old
I thought it would be a good idea to have my 9-year-old watch Hawaii (the movie based on Michener’s novel Hawaii) since we live here. I’d never seen the movie…
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Film on Film as Life on Life
Film on Film as Life on Life Watching a great film can give a person insights into the existence they lead. That may be the key to why human beings…
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Five Seasons of Fellini – Amarcord
Five Seasons of Fellini If you are no longer a teenager, think back to the time when you were. If you were to pick one significant year from that…
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Silk Road Vagabond – Marco Polo
Going around the world hasn’t always been as easy as it is today. In fact, the great explorers of the past often suffered great hardships to see distant lands. One…
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Welcome to the Liberators
Welcome to the Liberators “Welcome to the Liberators!” It is painted on a brick wall as Antonia and her daughter walk into a Dutch village that Antonia grew up…
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Richard III – Evil Evil England – An Honest Review
Richard III: Evil Evil England A Review of Richard III (1998) starring Ian Mckellen and Annette Bening When one looks at the United Kingdom, one naturally expects to find certain…
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Jim Bridger – Vagabond Saddle Tramp
This is an excerpt from my book “Vagabonds: Sometimes Getting Lost is the Point” . It’s available as an ebook for kindle or ebook readers. Over the next several months we…
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Amazing Vagabond – Chris Guillebeau – Every Country in the World
Chris Guillebeau is such a genuinely nice guy that even the hater trolls can’t seem to hate him as he makes his way to every country in the world.
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The Player – A Robert Altman Film
About The Player – Robert Altman’s Insider Look Inside of Hollywood What does it mean to be an insider in Hollywood? What happens behind the scenes during the process of…
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Vino Vagabond Writer – Linda Kissam
Linda specializes in easy, breezy destination stories focusing on what makes each destination special through it culinary and wine, beer and spirits scene and the soft adventures that surround those…
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Looking for Richard – A Film Review
Looking for Richard and Looking for Relevance by CD Damitio It would seem that one of the major tasks facing filmmakers and story tellers of all stripes today is to…
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Sex, Drugs, and a Holiday in Cambodia
Sex, Drugs, and a Holiday in Cambodia In 1987 Spalding Grey, released his indy film/monologue, Swimming to Cambodia. In the monologue, Gray discusses a trip he took to Thailand, his…
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A Memento of Henri Bergson – Christopher Nolan’s Memento
A Memento of Henri Bergson You may think that you are free, but you are not. You may think that each action you take is an unrestrained choice, but it…
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Revolutionary Vagabond – Che Guevara
World travel was important to Che. Sure, you see his image on all kinds of clueless college kids t-shirts and hoodies and maybe later he was responsible for thousands of…
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Rush – The Art of Fast Cars and Beautiful Drama – A Review
I’m not much of a sports guy. When someone says “Who’s your team?” I usually have to think about it and I generally pick Seattle because that’s where I was…
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Short Film Reviews – The Seventh Seal, Homerun, The Big Lebowski, Three Days of the Condor, Dogma, Ansel Adams Biography, E2, David Brower and His Fight to Save Wild America
Some thoughts on some films by VagoDamitio The Seventh Seal(1958) This was interesting. Essentially a medieval peasant western with a lot of very sharp philosophy and criticism all steeped in…
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Vagabond Architect – Johann Beukes C
Johann BEUKES from South Africa worked as an architect for 40 years before deciding to do a lateral move into the travel business.
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Slaughterhouse Five (the film)- A Review
Slaughterhouse Five (the film)- A Review by CD Damitio This wasn’t a terrible film. It seemed to stay fairly true to the book, however, they did a fairly bad job…
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John Steinbeck – California Vagabond
Steinbeck wrote of pirates, hobos, Mexican revolutionaries, drunkards, knights, kings, farmers and other unsavory types that have been described by the world as vagabonds. He was accused of being a…
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Manhattan – a review
Manhattan A Review By CD Damitio Again, a movie I thought I knew something about but was completely off on. Manhattan is a sort of cynical and sort of sweet…
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What I’m Reading – Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Yesterday, I finished reading (for the 3rd time) Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It’s a worthy book and recommended for anyone and everyone – even if it sometimes…
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Good Night and Good Luck a Review by CD Damitio
Good Night and Good Luck a review by CD Damitio It’s funny how I have so many preconceived notions about films I haven’t seen. Now that I’ve seen it, I…
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Doomsday – A review
A film review by CD Damitio If you have any respect for my taste in movies…you will probably lose it if you see Doomsday. I caught Neil Marshall’s latest film…
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