Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Over the weekend I watched Sean Penn's film adaption (2007) of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild; (1996) a non fictional account of the adventures or journey of Christopher McCandless. ' Adventures' refers to turning one's back on modern industrial civilization and living in wild nature as a modern primitive. That's...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The film adaptation of the book Into the Wild only cemented the mystique for those heading to Alaska this summer, hoping to retrace the last steps of Christopher McCandless.
World Hum (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Last October we noted that locals in Healy, Alaska were considering removing the old bus where Christopher McCandless died. They feared that people moved by John Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild” and Sean Penn’s movie adaptation would tramp 22 miles into the wilderness to see the bus, only to wind up in the same kind of trouble McCandless did. Well, the bus is still there—it has long served as a refuge...
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Sean Penn’s Into the Wild has sparked a series of travelers’ pilgrimages to Healy, Alaska to see where Christopher McCandless, the 24-year-old whose biography inspired the film, spent his final months. This summer many are expected to attempt to visit...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The film adaptation of the book "Into the Wild" has cemented the mystique for visitors heading to Alaska this summer, hoping to retrace the last steps of Christopher McCandless along the Stampede Road near Denali National Park.
Webomatica (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Synopsis Recent college graduate and dreamer Christopher McCandless abandons his family for an extended walkabout of the American West. Intending to rely on no-one except himself and nature, he treks into to the Alaskan wilderness alone for the adventure of a lifetime. Based on a true story.
Nermeena (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
From an adventurous to a sheer idiot, opinions varied about Christopher McCandless. In January 1993 Author Jon Krakauer published an article in Outside Magazine titled “Death of an Innocent”, in which he depicted the life of Christopher McCandless. “The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life [...]
UNCoRRELATED (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Into The Wild is Sean Penn's movie about Christopher McCandless who died from starvation in wild(ish) Alaska in 1992. Outside movies Penn cuts a ridiculous figure, full of standard issue liberal crap and ready to advance America's enemy du jour in Venezuela, Iraq or Iran. But it's a decent movie with some first-rate non-standard issue photography. Its sincerity just about floats above the bathos of...
Ypulse (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Last week I watched "Into the Wild" on DVD and couldn't help thinking back to my own post high school experience. For anyone who hasn't seen the movie, it's based on Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book about Christopher McCandless, who died...
GadgetVicar (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Over the weekend, we watched Into the Wild on DVD. What an intensely thought provoking, moving and spiritual film it is. It tells the true story of the travels of Christopher McCandless who, in 1990, graduated from Emory University, gave...
Cinema Blend Feeds (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
Touching, gripping, emotional, meaningful, beautiful, poetic and ultimately heart-breaking, Into the Wild is all that and endlessly more. Christopher McCandless had a little bit of everyone in him, which made connecting with him that much easier and the eventual result that much harder to watch. But the film lost nothing because of its supposed anticlimactic conclusion, and it had me along for the...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Visually stimulating and emotionally tugging, director Sean Penn establishes a wonderful, yet heartbreaking experience with "Into the Wild," a film based on Jon Krakauer's best-selling book about Christopher McCandless.
SJCPL Blog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Here are just a few of the new titles that have arrived this Tuesday: Into the Wild - The true story of Christopher McCandless, a college graduate with a promising future, who walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium - Mr. Magorium owns the most [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Sean Penn's uncompromising, unsettling, uniquely satisfying film version of Jon Krakauer's best-seller, "Into the Wild," tells the true story of Christopher McCandless, a young man from a wealthy Eastern family who made an ill-fated trek into the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
As portrayed in Sean Penn's beautiful (if sometimes frustrating) adaptation of Into the Wild (out this week on DVD), Christopher McCandless is a charming and manipulative sweet-talker, quoting Tolstoy with reverence and then abandoning anyone who gets close to him....
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I saw the movie, one question? Why didn't he catch the fish in the net he had and eat them.? The river was right next to him and the bears must of ate...
anonymous - 05/22/2008