Found 4 hits, currently showing 1-4.
“Marco Polo Didn’t Go There” from 2008 is a great collection of travel stories with an unusual twist, since each chapter has ending notes which describes the circumstances surrounding that particular story. This is a great concept and feels like the director’s commentary track on DVDs.
This is part 3 of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Game of Thrones, Da Vinci Code, Midnight in Paris, Contact, Control, Into the Wild, The Terminator, From Russia with Love, Back to the Future 3, Argo, Taken 2, Young Guns 2.
Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in 2006. He has lived in Istanbul for almost his entire life and this book is the tale of him growing up there, as well as an attempt to describe the mentality of the citizens in the ever-changing city.
I am currently sitting in a room in Sultanahmet, the old part of Istanbul. The Bosporus strait is within sight and the air is filled with the competing sounds of hungry seagulls and shouting minarets.