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The Trip to Italy (2014)

Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.

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The Trip to Italy

Released: August 15, 2014

• director Michael Winterbottom

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Released: April 15, 2014

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The Trip to Italy

Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri. Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri. Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.

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• Steve Coogan
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• Trivia Like the previous film, The Trip (2010) , Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan improvised their scenes together.
• Goofs Toward the end of the movie (33 minute to the end), they are showing and commenting about a fruit they call "kumquat" which is in fact a "Physalis" also called "Cape Gooseberry", a fruit originally from Chile and Peru. A Kumquat is like a miniature orange, which can be eaten whole, or used in making marmalade. It has a very sharp flavour. A physalis has a paper-like husk like a tomatillo and is very sweet when ripe.

Steve : [In reference to Alanis Morissette] You know I can see the appeal in a woman like this. Volatile women are always sexy when you first meet them but two years down the line you're sorta saying things like, 'can you just put the lids back on eh... on these jars please.'

• Connections Edited from The Trip (2010)
• Soundtracks All I Really Want Written by Glen Ballard and Alanis Morissette Published by Bucks Music Group Limited on behalf of Penny Farthing Music; Universal/MCA Music Limited Performed by Alanis Morissette Licensed courtesy of Warner Music UK Ltd.

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The Trip to Italy

2014, Comedy, 1h 46m

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While perhaps not quite as fresh as Coogan and Brydon's original voyage in The Trip , The Trip to Italy still proves a thoroughly agreeable sequel. Read critic reviews

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During a tour of Italy, two friends (Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon) enjoy sumptuous meals and lively conversations about such eclectic topics as Batman's vocal range.

Genre: Comedy

Original Language: English

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Producer: Melissa Parmenter

Release Date (Theaters): Aug 15, 2014  limited

Release Date (Streaming): Dec 23, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA): $2.9M

Runtime: 1h 46m

Distributor: IFC Films

Production Co: Small Man, Revolution, Baby Cow Productions

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I was really into the first film, The Trip, thanks to the chemistry between its perfectly matched leads, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and their heavily improvised dialogue.  The fact that the film felt mostly like a project in self-indulgence, going to great restaurants and eating great food, was irrelevant when the film was that good.  This film, and its prequel, for all the faults you could name, comes across like it was a very easy movie to make.  Not saying that it was easy, but that's the air it gives off.  This sequel is, essentially, the same concept as the first one except it's set in Italy.  Of course, they choose some of the most beautiful Italian settings, so in a way, it also serves as a video to help promote Italy's tourism market.  The film, admittedly, isn't as good as the first one.  That's not a huge complaint, since there's no massive drop in quality, just only a very slight drop.  Steve Coogan' s and Rob Brydon's excellent chemistry carries this film.  What I liked about the first one is that, underneath all the Michael Caine impressions and self-deprecating humor, was actually a strong character arc for both Steve's and Rob's character.  The sequel tries this same formula without nearly the same success. For example, Steve trying to reconnect with his son is actually good.  But Rob having an affair, when in the first film he was presented as a likable and loving family man, well it just feels out of place with what's already been established.  And I get it, people change throughout the years, but it doesn't really work well.  Rob finally making inroads into the American film world was good though. Of course when the majority of the film consists of amusing and hilarious conversations between Steve and Rob, it's kinda hard to review the film, because you're really only talking about the dialogue and not an actual narrative, even though there is one, however understated it may be. If you liked the first film, then there would be no reason for you to dislike this one. It's more of what you loved, and for good reason. I may have given it the same rating as the first one, but this is only a slight decrease in quality. It's still very good and very funny, but it is an acquired taste. Not everyone will enjoy this, that's for damn sure.

There is a scene in The Trip to Italy where Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon visit the exhibit around Pompeii and while Brydon takes the expected comical approach to their surroundings Coogan stops to consider the reality of the situation. There is a rich and very depressing history to what they are seeing; these were human lives that were taken away in one short breath and while Coogan is somewhat flabbergasted at the thought of that occurrence Brydon takes advantage of the situation by excelling at his trade-doing voices. He gives the body, still covered in concrete ash, a voice from inside the glass case to which he carries on a conversation with. This scene in particular captures the balance of not only these films, but this film specifically in one small moment. It gives credence to the solemnity of life while allowing the overwhelming sense of comedy that seeps into our every day experiences to serve as the highlight because, well, we'd all really like to live in a comedy, wouldn't we? I've only been familiar with Brydon since the first installment of this series a few years back, but Coogan has been a presence, for me personally anyway, for a bit longer and his profile outside of these movies lends the atmosphere a little more depth if not credibility. These aren't films you necessarily look to for pure entertainment value, but they are rather stimulating and deliver plenty of laughs where you chuckle to yourself and feel present and enthralled for sharing in their journey.

The Trip to Italy is more of the same. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are a funny comedy team. Their dueling Michael Caines were a standout in the original. This time however the shtick comes across as a bit desperate. The movie has barely begun and they're already going back that well again. "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" Steve Coogan shout at the top of his lungs. The obvious Caine quote from 1969's The Italian Job. Then the pair discuss The Dark Knight Rises and who is less understandable - Tom Hardy as Bane or Christian Bale as Batman. Do you like the impressions? Then I have very good news for you - a whole slew of celebrities are mimicked: Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Grant, Dustin Hoffman, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Humphrey Bogart. Some are good (Woody Allen). Others are just awful (Al Pacino). Perhaps that was the point. Most of these are done by Brydon who once again plays the irritant to Coogan's agitated fellow. So how do you say déjà vu in Italian? fastfilmreviews.com

The viewer may already be familiar with the concept of comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon being this generation's Hope and Crosby when they toured and ate their way across England in "The Trip." Thankfully, that familiarity has not led to contempt(although it does mention the movie of the same title), just enjoyment as this time they tour Italy where it is Brydon who has the job offer and the dalliance with a younger woman while Coogan's show has just ended which is probably for the best. They discuss a wide range of topics from mortality to Alanis Morissette, all the while chasing the ghosts of Byron and Shelley in a Mini Cooper with the spectacular Italian scenery as a backdrop and being fueled by great looking food.(At last, I finally understand the concept of food porn.) The question Brydon and Coogan ask is whether or not they will be remembered in 200 years which is impossible to gauge. But their referencing all manner of classic films provides hope for long memories. In any case, it appears that the "Beat the Devil" story is true.

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Soundtrack for Italy: My Italian Music Mix

The playlist here is a combination of newer Italian songs I really like, and classics that most every Italian will know – and it should transport you right to Italy (audially speaking, at any rate). Below the playlist box you’ll find a listing of all the songs I’ve included along with links to where you can buy a CD if you like it! Some of these CDs aren’t available on Amazon’s US site, so there are some links to the Amazon UK site – which will cost more in shipping, so keep an eye on that.

In addition to links of where you can buy these CDs (or song downloads, in some cases), I’ve also put links to translations of these songs wherever possible. I can sing along to parts of most of these songs, but I don’t know most of the words or bother to translate them myself. I just enjoy them for the music, humming along where I don’t understand lyrics. So if you’re not interested in what the songs mean, don’t worry – you can still “sing” along anyway. And keep in mind that many of these translations are done by computers instead of humans, so they’re, umm, funky at times. You’ll see what I mean.

Without further ado, have fun listening to my Soundtrack for Italy!

• “Volare” – Domenico Modugno – This Italian classic is well-known by anybody who knows anything about Italian music (and many who don’t). “Volare” means “to fly” in Italian. “Volare” translation >> Buy Domenico Modugno “Golden Hits”
• “Io Nascerò” – Mango – I started listening to Mango because he was cited by my favorite Italian cyclist as his favorite Italian singer, and this greatest hits CD turned out to be a nice introduction to his music. This song title means literally “I will be born,” or more poetically, “I will rise.” >> Buy Mango “Visto Così”
• “Non Siamo Soli” – Eros Ramazzotti & Ricky Martin – Eros Ramazzotti is one of the big-time Italian musicians who records all his albums (or almost all of them) in both Italian and Spanish, releasing two versions of the same set of songs, to appeal to a wider audience. On this song, the title of which means “we aren’t alone,” he’s teamed up with Latin superstar Ricky Martin, who sings on this track in Italian. I don’t know for sure, but I’d imagine they did a Spanish version of this song where they both sang in Spanish as well. “Non Siamo Soli” translation >> Buy Eros Ramazzotti “E2”
• “Non Ti Scordar Mai di Me” – Giusy Ferreri – Giusy Ferreri is a new sensation in Italy, having come 2nd in one of their reality TV singing contests. She’s been called the Italian Amy Winehouse, without the drug habit. Let’s hope she stays that way. The title of this song means “never forget me.” “Non Ti Scordar Mai di Me” translation >> Buy Giusy Ferreri “Gaetana”
• “La Vasca” – Alex Britti – I first heard this song on my first trip to Italy, and loved it instantly for its fun energy. Later, when I found out the title means “the bathtub” I decided it’s kind of the Italian “ Splish Splash ,” which made it even more fun. “La Vasca” translation >> Buy Alex Britti “La Vasca”
• “La Compagnia” – Vasco Rossi – I’m not a huge fan of Vasco; he’s got a reputation in Italy for his wild lifestyle (and drug use), but that’s not it. I’ve just never listened to a whole album of his and loved it. (The husband likes him, which is why we have several Vasco CDs.) But I love this song. Imagine my lack of surprise, then, when I found out it’s not a Vasco Rossi song – it was written in 1969 by Marisa Sannia, and made popular by Lucio Battisti in the mid-1970s. The title means “the company,” and the term can refer to both a business company or social company (as in keeping someone company). “La Compagnia” translation >> Buy Vasco Rossi “Extended Play”
• “Buonanotte all’Italia” – Ligabue – I love Ligabue; he’s got a great rock voice and great songs that are fun to sing along with. He’s just come out with two CDs recently, and one of them is basically a greatest hits CD with a couple new songs. One of those new songs is this one, which translates to “goodnight Italy.” “Buonanotte all’Italia” translation >> Buy Ligabue “Primo Tempo”
• “La Canzone del Sole” – Lucio Battisti – Lucio Battisti is one of those Italian singers that everyone in Italy knows and can sing along with, and this song is a particular favorite. Imagine the Italian version of, say, Bob Dylan (but with a better voice). The song title means “song of the sun.” “La Canzone del Sole” translation >> Buy Lucio Battisti “Le Avventure di Lucio Battisti e Mogol”
• “Il Mare Calmo della Sera” – Andrea Bocelli – Andrea Bocelli is part opera singer and part pop singer; he’s successfully made the jump to being a cross-over artist, but this song helped bring him to where he is today back at the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994, when it earned him the win in the “youth” category. The title means “the calm sea of the evening.” “Il Mare Calmo della Sera” translation >> Buy Andrea Bocelli “Romanza”
• “La Solitudine” – Laura Pausini – Another artist who records pretty much every album in both Italian and Spanish, Laura Pausini is also someone who got a major boost from the Sanremo Music Festival in 1993 when she won the “youth” category with this song. The title means “the loneliness.” “La Solitudine” translation >> Buy Laura Pausini “Laura Pausini”
• “Madre Terra” – Tazenda (with Francesco Renga) – Tazenda is a band that hails from Sardinia, so their lyrics are often as much in Sardinian as they are in Italian (Sardinian is so much its own language and not just an accent that Italians who aren’t from Sardinia usually can’t understand it). This song’s title, however, is Italian and means “mother earth.” >> Buy Tazenda “Madre Terra”
• “Luce” – Elisa – Elisa is an Italian singer and songwriter who’s been singing primarily in English since she started her career in her late teens; she studied music in California, and even this song (which means “light”) was originally recorded in English and only later translated into Italian. The Italian version won Elisa the grand prize at the Sanremo Music Festival in 2001. She’s attempting to make a name for herself in the U.S. now, and released her first all-English CD, “Dancing,” in mid-2008. “Luce” translation >> Buy Elisa “Soundtrack 96-06” and Elisa’s new all-English debut “Dancing”
• “Pensa” – Fabrizio Moro – This is yet another winner of the “youth” category at the Sanremo Music Festival; Fabrizio Moro won with this politcal song in 2007. The title means simply “think,” but the song is about the people in Italy who have fought the mafia for years, sometimes to their deaths. “Pensa” translation >> Buy Fabrizio Moro “Pensa”
• “Laura Non C’È” – Nek – Nek is one of my favorite Italian singers, largely because he enunciates so clearly when he sings that he’s great for someone learning the language. He also records many (if not all) of his albums in Spanish. This song, which means “Laura’s not there,” was probably his first big hit. “Laura Non C’È” translation >> Buy Nek “L’Anno Zero: Best of Nek”
• “La Notte” – Neffa – I got hooked on Neffa’s jazzy songs a couple years ago, and this is a perfect example of them. His music is really varied, so the songs don’t all sound like this, but I really enjoy his voice as well as his jazzy-ness. The title of this song means “the night.” “La Notte” translation >> Buy Neffa “Alla Fine della Notte”
• “Basta!” – L’Aura – I got introduced to L’Aura when she performed this song (the title means “enough”) at the Sanremo Music Festival in 2008. She didn’t win anything, but I really liked the song. It’s an anti-war song of sorts, and although I can’t find her album anywhere on Amazon you’ll get this song on the Sanremo 2008 compilation (along with many of the other songs in the competition). >> Buy “Super Sanremo 2008”
• “Gianna” – Rino Gaetano – Rino Gaetano is another great Italian singer from the 1970s, and although he only came 3rd in the 1978 Sanremo Music Festival with “Gianna,” the song became an instant hit. Sadly, he died in a car accident in 1981 at the age of 30. “Gianna” translation >> Buy Rino Gaetano “Storia”
• “Gino e L’Alfetta” – Daniele Silvestri – Every time I listen to Radio Italia, I hear one or two of Daniele Silvestri’s songs. They’re all upbeat and fun to sing along with, both of which are traits of good songs in my book. This song’s title means “Gino and the Alfetta,” an Alfetta being a model of Alfa Romeo. “Gino e L’Alfetta” translation >> Buy Daniele Silvestri “Il Latitante”
• “Baila Morena” – Zucchero – Adelmo Fornaciari is much more well-known by his stage name of Zucchero (“sugar” in Italian), and has been a wildly popular Italian singer since the 1970s. He does many of his albums in Spanish as well as Italian, and also has done several songs in English as well. Want some fun Zucchero trivia? He led a band in the 1980s that featured American Idol’s Randy Jackson on bass. The title of this song isn’t Italian, but “baila” is “dance” in Spanish and “morena” is a woman who’s dark-haired, dark-skinned, or tanned… The English title of this song is “Baila (Sexy Thing),” so it’s basically “dance, sexy woman” in any language. “Baila Morena” translation from Spanish to English (he recorded the same song in Spanish, too) >> Buy Zucchero “All the Best”
• “Indimenticabile!” – Antonello Venditti – Antonello Venditti is another singer who was popular in the 1970s, but he’s still somewhat popular today. This song title means “unforgettable.” “Indimenticabile” translation >> Buy Antonello Venditti “Dalla Pelle al Cuore”
• “L’Amore” – Sonohra – Sonohra won the “youth” category of the Sanremo Music Festival in 2008 with this song, and I remember being in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo when they were on MTV Italia which was recording in a balcony overlooking the piazza… That end of the piazza was crammed with screaming teenage girls holding big painted signs declaring their love for the members of the band. I’ll admit, the boys are pretty cute. But it’s mainly this song that I like so much. The title means “love.” “L’Amore” translation >> Buy Sonohra “Liberi da Sempre”
• “Ferro e Cartone” – Francesco Renga – Another graduate of the Sanremo Music Festival, Francesco Renga won the grand prize in 2005. This song, the title of which means “iron and cardboard,” is from his most recent album of the same name, released in 2007. “Ferro e Cartone” translation >> Buy Francesco Renga “Ferro e Cartone”
• “Nessun Dorma” – Pavarotti – No Italian soundtrack would be complete without something from the great Pavarotti, and what better Pavarotti aria than one of his most famous? The title means “no one sleeps,” and it’s from Puccini’s opera “Turandot.” “Nessun Dorma” translation >> Buy Pavarotti “Pavarotti Forever”
• “Fango” – Jovanotti – Jovanotti is an Italian singer whose work drifts between pop, rock, and hip-hop. This is one of his newest songs from his most recent album, and the title means “mud.” “Fango” translation >> Buy Jovanotti “Safari”
• “Domo Mia” – Tazenda (with Eros Ramazzotti) – Tazenda’s making another appearance on this soundtrack, partly because I love this song, and partly because of the two this is one I could find a translation for. It’s also in both Italian and Sardinian. The title means “my house.” “Domo Mia” translation >> Buy Tazenda “Vida”
• “Il Solito Sesso” – Max Gazzé – This is another song I discovered thanks to the Sanremo Music Festival in 2008; at the start you’ll hear a phone ringing, and then the whole song is basically a man leaving a message on a woman’s answering machine. The man has just met the woman and is hoping to see her again, despite knowing that she has a boyfriend, so it’s not surprising that the title means “the usual sex” in Italian. “Il Solito Sesso” translation >> Buy Max Gazzé “Tra L’Aratro e la Radio”
• “Sono Quello Che Vuoi Tu” – Anna Tatangelo – Despite only being 21 years old, Anna Tatangelo has already made quite a name for herself on the Italian music scene. She won the “youth” category of the Sanremo Music Festival in 2002 at the age of 15 (the youngest ever to win that category), and her star has continued to rise. This song title means essentially “I’m whatever you want me to be.” “Sono Quello Che Vuoi Tu” translation >> Buy Anna Tatangelo “Mai Dire Mai”
• “Alla Mia Età” – Tiziano Ferro – Tiziano Ferro is a popular Italian singer who records his albums both in Spanish and in Italian. I’ve got a couple of his CDs, but this song is from the album of the same name that just came out in November 2008. The song already hit #1 in Italy, and I think it’s absolutely beautiful. The title means “at my age.” He’s younger than me, so the fact that he’s already reflecting on his age at his age makes me a little uncomfortable, but I just ignore that when I listen to the song. >> Buy Tiziano Ferro “Alla Mia Età”
• “L’Immenso” – Negramaro – While the Italian music charts seem to be dominated by individuals rather than bands, Negramaro is a great Itaian rock band; they also got a boost from the Sanremo Music Festival in 2005 even though they didn’t come close to winning. This song is one of their more “low-key” songs, a power ballad if you will, and the title means “the immensity.” >> Buy Negramaro “Finestra”
• “Sei Fantastica” – Max Pezzali – Max Pezzali once fronted the Italian pop band 883, but embarked on a solo career in 2004. This song comes from his summer 2007 album, and the title means “you’re fantastic.” “Sei Fantastica” translation >> Buy Max Pezzali “Time Out”
• “Fresco” – Daniele Battaglia – I first heard Daniele Battaglia on Radio Italia, and although he’s more sort of cotten candy pop than I usually go for, I like how clearly he enunciates his words and I think this song is particularly fun. The title means “fresh.” >> Buy Daniele Battaglia “Tutto il Mare che Vorrei”
• “50 Special” – Lùnapop – Lùnapop is a band I heard on my first trip to Italy; the music was fun and upbeat, and had a great sense of humor. The band has since broken up (in fact, I’m not sure they recorded any more than this album), but the lead singer has gone on to a solo career in Italy. This song’s title is the name of a particular Vespa scooter model, and the song is about getting out of the city with your girl on the back of your scooter. “50 Special” translation (the translation changes “Vespa” to “wasps” occasionally, just pretend it’s still “Vespa!”) >> Buy Lùnapop “…squérez?”
• “Mambo Italiano” – Rosemary Clooney – “Mambo Italiano” is one of those songs that makes me think of Italy, even if it’s in English and the lyrics are pretty ridiculous. I hope no translation is necessary for this one. >> Buy Rosemary Clooney “16 Biggest Hits”
• “Fratelli d’Italia” – Mameli – Now, you’re not going to hear this played on Italian radio, but if you ever watch an Italian sporting event you’ll hear this sung with gusto. It’s the Italian national anthem, and I love listening to crowds of Italians singing along. “Fratelli d’Italia” translation >> Buy “National Anthems of the World”

A couple classic Italian songs that didn’t make it onto the list (because they weren’t among the files I could choose from) but which would definitely have made the cut are:

• “Tu Vuo’ Fa’ l’Americano” – Renato Carasone – This song appeared in “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” and it’s a fantastic example of classic Neapolitan music by one of Italy’s greats. Renato Carosone’s success was mainly in the 1950s, and he is still considered one of the greatest Italian musicians ever. The song title means “you want to make like an American,” and you can learn more about what the song means with this translation . >> Buy Renato Carosone “Tu Vuo’ Fa’ l’Americano”
• “Basta Così – Sergio Endrigo – I first got introduced to this song when a classmate of mine learned it and performed it for an Italian teacher of ours for whom Sergio Endrigo had long been a major heartthrob. He was primarily popular in the 1960s, and won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1968. The song title means “that’s enough.” >> Buy Sergio Endrigo “I Grandi Successi Originali”

As mentioned earlier, for most of these songs I don’t exactly pay attention to what the lyrics mean… So if you find a better translation than one I’ve listed (or find a translation for a song I don’t have translated), or want to correct me on any of this stuff, please do!

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I would love some suggestions of music you enjoy for these types of videos. Nothing too fast, I want it would flow nicely as the pictures come up and transition. Italian type music only, instrumental or vocal. Thanks for your help!

I have gone to iTunes and have found several, but I’m stuck.

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Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, ancient airs and dances - Respighi Verdi

Try these works by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi - https://youtu.be/nRxORN5yAuw , https://youtu.be/1InqHiPETFU , This short work by Puccini - https://youtu.be/iZM6AHtarEo And while I know you specified Italian music , don't dismiss this , it weds nicely with beautiful pictures . Give it a listen and a chance - https://youtu.be/f6CrzLXUHx4

I'd try to throw in some Italian mandolin music.

A few more to consider - " Pulcinella " music arranged by Stravinsky , but written by the Italian composer , Pergolesi ( one of my favorite orchestras in this recording } https://youtu.be/glbnrYF_0ck Also, this film score by Ennio Morricone , one of Italy's great film composers https://youtu.be/_APmVdXm4Xw Don't let the title mislead you .

Thank you all! I can’t wait to listen!

Hi Lulu, A topic close to my heart, as we often try to include related musical interludes within our own Trip reports. In preparation for our eventual TR-photo essay about our recent Amalfi Coast voyage, the following have made the short list. In some cases, we also add music unrelated to the country but similar in feel.

PFM - Appena un po = a superb choice for an intro, say with Castelluccio engulfed in morning mist. Matia Bazaar - Cavallo Blanco (or Fantasia) Verdi - Il Trovatore Anvil chorus (or La Traviata or Rigoletto 'La Donna e Mobil') Vivaldi - Four Seasons (or Concerto D minor or Concerto 3 F major L'Autumno) - Godfather themes --these never seem to get tired -Funicula the song Pino Daniele -Che Calore -Volare the song Andrea Bocelli -A te Puccini --Giani Schicchi (O Mio Babbino Caro) Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's 'Wind on Water' makes a great accompaniment for say, Venetian water scenes.

Good luck with this project! I am done. The muzix.

Perhaps you could include this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2sJdQmjHdKg

Just a side note......will you be posting any of these videos with music on the internet? If so, you need to make sure the music you use is in the public domain or you get permission to use it. Otherwise it is copyright infringement and you could get sued.

It happens.

Frank is exactly right - you don't want to use copyrighted music on Youtube, Facebook or anywhere else on line.

A good alternative is to find the Teknoaxe channel on Youtube. He also has a website https://teknoaxe.com/ where you can hear and download his music. It's free to use as long as you give him credit in your comments for the video. He has a large and diverse library to choose from as well.

I have nothing to do with Teknoaxe - I'm a YT creator who used his music for quite awhile before I subscribed to a royalty free music site.

Dean Martin or Connie Francis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrna4zGe-Tg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzE_QvZ7GjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zyRJl7BDP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt1LnwWykJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAWiWzfYQYg

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The founder of this site once said a very wise thing. Well, he actually said quite a few very wise things, but here’s one I go over and over pretty frequently: "There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection." That’s pretty funny in and of itself. Anyway, I’ve always respected Roger Ebert’s rule of comedy, which he articulated differently in various pieces over the course of his life, and which I distilled in my own mind as an instruction: If something’s funny, and you laugh at it a lot, you’ve gotta own it. (If you know me at all, you also know that I’ve got a laugh that’s kind of hard not to own—when I lose it, it’s pretty loud. I think Fox Searchlight bought “ Napoleon Dynamite ” at Sundance partially in the strength of my reaction to the steak-throwing joke.)

So here’s the breakdown: I laughed like a maniac at the Michael-Caine-impersonation reprise performed by comic actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon at the front end of “The Trip To Italy,” the followup (to call this a sequel is kind of special pleading, really) to “ The Trip .” The difference, by the way, being that in the prior film—both are distilled from somewhat longer television mini-series-es broadcast in Great Britain—the fellows gallivanted around the British countryside and in this picture they are in, you guessed it, Italy. To get back to the record, I also laughed like a maniac at the pictures end, in which Brydon and Coogan discuss various James Bonds in front of an appreciative audience of actors playing the publicist and teenage son of the characters played by Brydon and Coogan, who are lightly fictionalized versions of themselves. And I laughed consistently and appreciatively at many of the scenes in between, some of which depict the actors singing along to an Alanis Morrissette CD.

So if you go in for allusive British humor that builds slowly from dry to uproarious, as executed by two absolute masters of the form, “The Trip To Italy” will work for you, I believe. I also think the film, directed, like the prior one, by the astute Michael Winterbottom , is a somewhat smoother trip than the first. In that one, Coogan, who’s better known internationally than Brydon, was the focus, and the movie’s plot, such as it was, was hooked into his work and personal anxieties as he took a break from his Hollywood career just as it entered a pivotal moment. Here the focus is on Brydon, who gets a call from Hollywood, and also succumbs to a vacation flirtation that results in a pretty serious domestic misstep. Because the viewer is arguably less familiar with Brydon, the fiction is more convincing; we’re spared the potential distraction of trying to separate and/or combine the “real” person from the character he’s playing. Which leaves us more focus for the incredible-looking Italian meals the pair sample (these trips are foodie fodder for newspaper articles Brydon writes), and the impeccably delivered banter they exchange. It all looks scrumptious, which makes this movie a terribly refreshing one with which to close out the summer.

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BEST 15 SONGS FOR YOUR LEGENDARY ITALY’S ROAD TRIP

WebMaster 31 January 2022 English , News & Blog

When we think of Sanremo , we think of flowers, of the region of Liguria , recently featured in the Pixar animation film Luca , with its homage to Italy and the Cinque Terre . But more than anything else, Sanremo means music !

The 72nd edition of the Sanremo Festival , the country’s biggest musical event , is about to start: it will be live on Rai1 (1-5 February) from the historic Teatro Ariston !

The goal? Every artist wants to win and to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest , this year in Turin after the 2021 edition won by Måneskin , who quickly climbed all global music charts with their single Zitti e Buoni .

Italian music conquers millions of fans around the world every year, and Carrani Tours has come up with the best songs for an unforgettable journey that, as Raffaella Carrà would say, goes “from Trieste down”, with the 15 ideal songs for an on-the-road itinerary. Our playlist , Italian Soundtrack , is already available on Spotify !

Listen to it or share it with your travelling companions and tell us in the comments the songs that always keep you company in your travels!

1. NEL BLU DIPINTO DI BLU (VOLARE) – DOMENICO MODUGNO

A song from 1958, written by Franco Migliacci and Domenico Modugno , who performed it with Nilla Pizzi and won the Sanremo Festival of the same year. It was a worldwide success and is still one of the best-known Italian songs of all time. 

Penso che un sogno così non ritorni mai più Mi dipingevo le mani e la faccia di blu

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2. Sì, VIAGGIARE – LUCIO BATTISTI

Released in 1977 as part of the album Io Tu Noi Tutti , the song was composed in music by Lucio Battisti and in words by Mogol , one of the greatest Italian songwriters .

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3. DESTINAZIONE PARADISO – GIANLUCA GRIGNANI

A very young Grignani presented this song, taken from the album of the same name, at the 1995 Sanremo Festival, winning over the Italian and Latin American public. 

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4. IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA – GINO PAOLI

Literally meaning Sky in a Room , this is a song composed by a very young Gino Paoli, later proposed by Mogol to Mina who reached 2 million copies , making it the best-selling 45 rpm record of 1960.

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5. CON TE PARTIRÒ – ANDREA BOCELLI

Deliberately conceived as a musical portrait of the concept of travel , this song, performed by the famous Tuscan tenor , is halfway between opera and pop music and still is one of the greatest successes of Italian music worldwide .

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6. ROTOLANDO VERSO SUD – NEGRITA

The refrain of this famous 2005 hit, whose title literally means Rolling Southward , makes us want to dance barefoot on one of the beautiful beaches of Salento , admiring the magic of the sunset over the Apulian sea.

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7. SALIRÒ – DANIELE SILVESTRI

First performed at 2002’s Festival di Sanremo , this song has been sung and performed by many artists over the years who have appreciated its irony and light-heartedness (the artist imagines himself as something very light, ready to fly up in the sky), two elements that make it perfect to accompany you on your discovery of Italy !

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8. 50 SPECIAL – LÙNAPOP

Cesare Cremonini praised his beloved Bolognese hills, but why not think of a Vespa tour of Rome for example, in full Roman Holiday style!

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9. PRIMA DI ANDARE VIA – NEFFA

The king of funk , Neffa, talks about a woman here, but we immediately thought of the timeless beauty of the Colosseum , with the stories and legends enclosed and guarded for centuries.

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10. BUON VIAGGIO (SHARE THE LOVE) – CESARE CREMONINI

This is a song that perfectly captures the meaning of the journey , not as a proposal, but an imperative to let go, finding the courage to take the road that leads us furthest with positivity and lightness , but also awareness .

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11. ESTATE – NEGRAMARO

In the video clip of this 2005 track , the Apulian band performs on the beach in Porto Cesareo, in the province of Lecce, singing about their desire for the summer to never end.

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12.  SAPORE DI SALE – GINO PAOLI

Gino Paoli’s best-known and loved song, this is a classic of Italian music, with all the arrangements made by world-renowned composer Ennio Morricone .

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13. O’ SOLE MIO – ENRICO CARUSO

This song, probably the greatest example of Neapolitan song , was published in 1898 and still is one of the best known and sung hymns to our beautiful country!

Reinterpreted by various artists and translated into many languages, it remains in history thanks to Enrico Caruso who, with the typical positivity of the Neapolitan people, sings of the beauty of the sun after a bad storm.

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14. A FAR L’AMORE COMINCIA TU – RAFFAELLA CARRÀ

Released in 1975, this is without any doubt the most popular 45 rpm record of the beautiful soubrette with the blonde bob haircut , with over 20 million copies sold worldwide!

Bob Sinclair’s 2011 remix makes us dance in the opening scenes of Paolo Sorrentino’s Golden Globe and Oscar-winning film, La Grande Bellezza .

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15. UN’ESTATE ITALIANA – E. BENNATO & G. NANNINI

Although it was created for the World Cup Italia ’90 , this song has made history because it is back in vogue after 31 years ! Sung at the end of every match by the same national team, this song has become, in the collective imagination, the official anthem of the European Football Championship 2020 , won by our Azzurri !

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The Best Italian Songs for Traveling

During the first hard but necessary lockdown due to the COVID-19 virus, together with 3 dear friends, we have been sharing one song each every day. Our goal was to entertain ourselves with good music while at home and distant from each other. We created a playlist on Spotify. When everything ends, we will have at least a nice gift from this difficult period for all humanity.  At the same time, I asked myself why don’t we share with our readers a playlist with the most famous Italian songs in the world .

This is how this playlist called Best Italian Music for Traveling was born.

Music is in everyone’s life and is always one of the best travel buddies. I love to enjoy the sounds that surround me. Can be birds, wind, or even cars and horns. But sometimes there is nothing better than the right songs to enjoy the moment. Very often it happens to link a place, an experience, or a person with a song. A song that, once home, will remind the emotions you felt in that precise instant.

After all, music is an art. And it is part of the culture and tradition of a community. Knowing a bit of local music means discovering a bit more of the people and places you visit.

So, is there anything better than some Italian songs while you are visiting the Belpaese ?

Italian Songs in the World

With a few exceptions, the most famous Italian songs in the world come from the past. We have Opera, classical music, and melodic pieces known in every corner of the planet. They have been representing Italy for years, upholding the prestige of our country.

Our opinion as Generation X guys and Millennials is that those songs represent the past, the idea of a country that no longer exists . If not in the collective imaginary.

Anyway, we are super happy to collect in a single playlist what we think are the most famous Italian songs. You can listen to it now, at your place. While you cook, do some gardening, or simply relax on the couch. Or where ever you like.

Even better if you listen to it on your trip to Italy. I imagine yourself sitting on a train looking out of the window. Or driving a car across the panoramic roads of Tuscany, while outside the beauties of our country flow before your eyes . This playlist of Italian songs comes with you, helping you to impress memories in your mind that will last forever.

We know that many foreigners love listening to us speak in Italian. For them, our language is like a romantic melody. Although I have to admit, sometimes we are a little too loud when we talk. So, Italian songs can bring romantic notes to your house when you are not traveling to Italy .

Italian music as a way to learn the Italian language

If you are studying Italian or you wish to learn a few expressions of our language, the playlist of Italian songs could be a good tool . When I was a teenager the best exercise to learn English was listening to English songs. It helped me also to read lyrics and translate words into Italian.

Our Playlists of the Best Italian Songs

We made a selection choosing famous tracks in Italy and abroad, starting from the very end of the 1800s to nowadays. Most of the songs are in Italian but we also included a few Italian artists singing in English.

Songs are uploaded in order of the year of release. If you are keen on the old classics stay on the top. Otherwise, keep scrolling to the end.

To Listen to the full playlist on Spotify click here on The Best Italian Songs for Traveling . In the following frame, you can have a taste of 30 seconds for each song.

If you prefer videos take a look below or click on the link to the playlist on YouTube .

A few artists included in the playlist

If you wish to know a bit more about the artists we chose, here is a short bio of a few of them.

• Domenico Modugno  is still a legend of Italian music. Thanks to Volare , he won two Grammy Awards in 1958.
• Renato Carosone was one of the greatest figures of the Italian music scene in the second half of the 20th. He is the symbol of the Canzone Napoletana , Naples’ song. He also performed at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York in 1957.
• Mina  is one of the most prolific artists from the ’60s. Thanks to her songs and her beautiful voice, she became an icon for many generations of fans. She can pass through different emotional states just with the power of her voice. From sadness to love, to angriness to happiness. She became famous with a unique performance at La Bussola , a historical nightclub in La Versilia .
• Patty Pravo is the third best-selling Italian artist of all time, after Mina and Adriano Celentano. She raised popularity with her song Ragazzo Triste , aired as the first pop song by Vatican Radio, which was the Italian version of But You’re Mine by Sonny and Cher.
• Adriano Celentano is also known in Italy as Il Molleggiato , the flexible one, for his funny way of dancing. His music was strongly influenced by Elvis Presley and the rock of the ’50s. Many people in Italy think he looks like Jerry Lewis.
• Ricchi e Poveri  is the Italian answer to the Abba. They are on the scene since the late 1960s, and they took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978. Their energy helped them to gain considerable success and many fans in Italy and abroad.
• Fabrizio De André was a singer-songwriter and socially committed. His songs talk about social problems. They celebrate the marginal life of prostitutes and gypsies and attack the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church. He is considered one of the finest lyricists and musicians of the 20th century. He has been described as a hybrid of Leonard Cohen and Georges Brassens.
• Zucchero  spent his youth in  Forte dei Marmi  in northern Tuscany and formed a music band with Edo’s uncle. Currently, he lives in Pontremoli in the Lunigiana . Gospel, soul, blues, and rock music inspire his music. He is widely known all around Europe, thanks to his collaboration with internationally famous artists such as Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Sting, Bono, Paul Young, and Peter Gabriel.
• Lucio Dalla  composed a popular song dedicated to the Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso . He was shy and enigmatic with the public and media but all hesitations vanished when performing on the stage.
• Francesco De Gregori  is a singer-songwriter and a poet, the Italian version of Bob Dylan. Exactly Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Fabrizio De André influenced his songs.
• Gianna Nannini  is a singer-songwriter and pop musician who became famous abroad, especially in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. She is from Siena in Tuscany. In her career, she performed with Sting and Jack Bruce. Together with Edoardo Bennato , she sang the official song of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Another great Italian musician, Giorgio Moroder composed the song.
• Giorgio Moroder is famous all over the world as a songwriter, DJ, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of electronic dance music producing singles for Donna Summer, and Bonnie Tyler. He created a score of songs for performers the likes of David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Irene Cara, Janet Jackson, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, and Blondie. Moroder also produced movie hits like Take my breath away from Top Gun and What a Feeling from Flashdance . Thanks to this last song, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983 and 1986.
• Umberto Tozzi  gained popularity in Europe, the USA, and Australia with his song Ti Amo . He performed twice at Sydney’s Opera House. Even another of his songs, Gloria , became a hit. It was translated into English and performed by Laura Branigan with the title Sold Gold .
• Pino Daniele was a Neapolitan singer-songwriter. His music has influences from pop to blues, passing through jazz and Middle Eastern music. He sang several of his last songs mixing English, Italian, and Neapolitan passages. His friend Eric Clapton called him at Toyota Park in Chicago playing with Joe Bossanova and Robert Randolph at Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2010.
• Eros Ramazzotti  is popular in Italy, most European countries, and in Latin America. He played a duet with artists the likes of Cher, Tina Turner, Patsy Kensit, Anastacia, Joe Cocker, and Ricky Martin. He is very much appreciated for his nasal voice and melodic tunes.
• Andrea Bocelli  is probably one of the most popular opera singers in the world. He is from Valdera in Tuscany . In 1999, he got a nominee for Best Artist at the Grammy Awards, and his duet with Celine Dion in the film Quest for Camelot won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song. Over the past 20 years, he sold millions of records worldwide. Nowadays he supports charity projects such as Celebrity Fight Nights and in 2011, he founded his own foundation to help with medical research and fight against poverty.

ANDREA BOCELLI AND THE CONCERT AT TEATRO DEL SILENZIO, TUSCANY

• Laura Pausini  is a pop singer-songwriter that became famous in Italy after her victory at the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival. She topped the charts also in the Netherlands and Belgium. She also sings in Spanish and is having huge success in Latin America. In Spain, she became the first non-Spanish to sell more than one million copies.
• Tiziano Ferro  is a pop singer who sings in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and French. He is very popular in Central and South America. His most famous songs remain Xdono and Rosso Relativo .
• Francesco Gabbani  is a singer of the new generation and he won the Sanremo Music Festival 2017. He gained enormous success at Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with his hit “ Occidentali’s Karma ”. He is from the town of Carrara in Tuscany which is famous for the white marble.

How to install and how subscribe to Spotify

If you are a first-timer on Spotify, follow these instructions to use it. Spotify is easy and free unless you subscribe to a premium service . This last option allows you to listen to music with no commercials, download playlists on your devices, and listen to them even without an internet connection.

Click here to install Spotify  on your Windows/Mac. Then click on the download button on the right top. You can subscribe using your Facebook account by clicking on the button Login with Facebook . Otherwise, use your email address and fill out the form in the center of the screen. Once you have subscribed the download starts.

When the download is complete, open the file SpotifySetup.exe and click Yes to install Spotify . The process is super easy and automatic. You don’t need to move a finger.

The next step is to log in using your Facebook profile, or the account you previously created. After that click on Is my first time on Spotify , and start to listen to your favorite music.

How to follow our playlist

As soon as you download Spotify on your device, open the link to this playlist “ The most famous Italian Songs for your holiday “. The cover is a green rolling hills landscape with the My Travel in Tuscany logo.

To add the collection to your favorites, click on the symbol of the heart. On the Spotify desktop version, the playlist will appear in the column on the left of your screen.

Would you like to add Italian songs to this playlist?

If you wish to add other Italian songs to this playlist, leave a comment below with the title and the name of the artist. We will be pleased to update the collection.

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Lasting Impressions

By David Denby

It’s been said of great mimics that they capture not just the voice and the manner of their subjects but their very souls. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, master impersonators and stars of the new comedy “The Trip to Italy,” are after something less grand and, in many ways, funnier. The movie is a sequel to “The Trip” (2011)—both were directed by Michael Winterbottom—and it repeats the earlier film’s mixed tone of hilarity and melancholia, as well as its absurd premise: the two men (they play themselves) are on an all-expenses-paid trip for the Observer . Their tough assignment is to drive through beautiful country, eat lavishly, and stay in exquisite small hotels, all so that one or the other can write high-toned culinary drivel for the paper. (They don’t actually know anything about food.) “The Trip” was set in the bleakly magnificent scenery of the hills and moors of the North of England; this film is set mainly along the incomparable coast (Liguria, Amalfi) of Italy. As the men amble through paradise, savoring such dishes as polpo alla griglia and coniglio arrosto , they take turns topping each other with riotous impressions of movie stars. They aren’t interested in anyone’s soul; they see themselves simply as professionals in an exacting trade that requires getting Christian Bale’s guttural whisper and Roger Moore’s English-butter croon exactly right. They also try to one-up each other as men, vying for professional success and for the attention of the invariably lovely women they meet. Sharks have duller teeth than Coogan and Brydon. Both movies, in fact, are about the impossibility—and the necessity—of male friendship.

Each film began as a six-part series on the BBC, and what we see, presumably, are the highlights. Yet if I hadn’t known that the footage had been cut way down I wouldn’t have guessed it. Winterbottom laid out the gist of a given scene, and the men improvised the rest, often taking off on bizarrely intricate riffs. Driving, eating, checking into hotels, lying alone (and sometimes not alone) at night—the recurring scenes, like the refrain of a song, give the movie formal clarity and simplicity, while, within the scenes, the editors (Mags Arnold, Paul Monaghan, and Marc Richardson) smooth what must have been ragged exchanges into unbroken streams of conversation.

The pace almost equals that of Robin Williams doing standup, but Coogan and Brydon reprise their best sallies for rhythm and for emphasis, so you won’t miss anything that matters. Ogling the scenery in “The Trip to Italy,” you wonder if the men’s small car—a Mini Cooper—will drive off the edge of a cliff, or if, when they board a yacht in the Golfo dei Poeti, someone will fall overboard and drown. But the “plot” is no more than the men’s thorny emotional connection and their mutual fixation on death. The only conventional suspense is whether Brydon and Coogan will return to their families or remain among the young women of Sorrento and Positano, catching octopus and squid.

Brydon, who is largely unknown in this country, has a long pale face, a Bugs Bunny smile, and pitted skin like that of his fellow-Welshman Richard Burton. Brydon’s voice is like Burton’s, too—baritonal, musical, and expansive. When Brydon reads Shelley in his imitation-Burton voice, he sounds nearly as authoritative as the Master. (He also does a mean Ian McKellen.) Brydon’s voice can go up or down an octave, or shrink, through some glottal mystery, to the tiny sound of a man in a box, a favorite routine that he does on British TV. Perhaps the most extraordinary of his impressions is a long series in “The Trip” devoted to Michael Caine at different stages of his life, from a snarling young Cockney to the elderly, hyper-polite butler in the “Batman” movies. Even as Brydon delivers his rendition, however, Coogan disputes his technique. You have to talk through your nose, he says; you have to get the nasality right, and he honks through his Michael Caine. For both men, craft is a passion, and the voice is supreme. When Brydon does Hugh Grant, the meaning of the words gets lost in a thicket of Grantian hesitations, jokes, and daft circumlocutions, only to emerge victoriously in a proposal that few women could resist. An actor’s distinctive voice is not just an element of leading-man stardom (which the two know they will never achieve) but the main equipment of sexual prowess. Coogan and Brydon’s Hollywood envy keeps the comedy free of sycophancy and appropriately hostile. Imitating well is the best revenge.

Coogan is best known here for his work in the Stephen Frears movie “Philomena” (2013), in which he played the real-life journalist Martin Sixsmith, an argumentative skeptic who helps Judi Dench’s Philomena Lee, a forgiving Catholic Irish woman, search for her long-lost son. Working in a softened version of screwball comedy, Coogan and Dench bantered with spirit but without sentiment. Yet, even in that relatively gentle role, Coogan, frowning, his pursed lips bordering on a sneer, came off as an articulate grouch. In the “Trip” films, playing a version of himself, he’s intelligent and dyspeptic, a man too clever to live by illusions but too ambitious to give them up. He’s dissatisfied with everything—his career, his relationship with his children, his waning sexual attractiveness—and he takes it out on his friend. In return, Brydon, in “The Trip to Italy,” concocts no fewer than three fantasies of murdering him, including a precise reënactment of the famous retaliation scene from “The Godfather: Part II.” As a portrait of male friendship, the “Trip” films are a triumph of the lean British comic style over the maunder and the mush of American bromance—Jason Segel and Seth Rogen pinching each other’s blubber.

Both films pursue the high and the low: a complicated deep-running sadness courses through the cynical, sybaritic adventures. In “The Trip,” Coogan and Brydon visit the villages where Wordsworth and Coleridge lived; they invade the poets’ tiny rooms, and recite, under gray skies, stretches of their early work, most of it devoted to loss and grief. The readings are done straight, with love and skill. Yet we’re meant to notice the diminution: from nature as spiritual necessity to tourist site; from poetry to show business; from inspiration to career worries. Coogan and Brydon abhor self-aggrandizement and self-promoting bluster—they know that what they do isn’t poetry.

The implicit comparisons recur in Italy, where the men visit the towns in which the sexual outlaws Byron and Shelley lived, shortly before their deaths. The comics perform funerary obsequies for the poets and again recite in their own and others’ voices. “The Trip to Italy,” for all its japes, is haunted by mortality, as was its namesake, “Viaggio in Italia” (1954), the Rossellini masterpiece starring George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman as a warring couple dismally on tour. Like them, Coogan and Brydon visit the museum at Pompeii, with its plaster casts of the bodies of the dead. Rossellini showed us a couple who died locked in embrace when Vesuvius exploded, a harsh reflection on the modern couple’s marital anguish. Here, in a blasphemous reduction, Brydon summons his man-in-a-box voice to play a Pompeian lying in a glass case; the two carry on a discreet gay flirtation. It’s not that the end is nigh for these men, but death, for them and for Winterbottom, is always present in life. Over and over on the soundtrack, Winterbottom plays the beginning of “Im Abendrot,” the last of Richard Strauss’s “Four Last Songs,” composed in 1948, a year before he died, at the age of eighty-five. The use of classical music in movies normally makes me wince, but in this film the glorious Strauss farewell fits every time.

James Agee, writing in The Nation , in 1946, noted that Groucho Marx, working with “extremely sophisticated wit . . . has always been slowed and burdened by his audience, even on the stage. He needs an audience that could catch the weirdest curves he could throw, and he needs to have no anxiety or responsibility toward even a blunter minority, let alone majority.” That audience now exists; it has been created during the past forty years by British and American television, particularly by cable television. Whether such people go to the movies anymore is a vexed question. On the opening day of “The Trip to Italy,” I sat in a New York art house among a gathering of decidedly mature viewers, who were apparently expecting a beach-and-mountain travelogue. For a hundred and ten minutes, watching some of the funniest comedy in years, they maintained a puzzled silence. The British, in their curious game of cricket, don’t throw weird curves; they deliver fast bowls. The two Winterbottom-Coogan-Brydon movies deserve an American audience, ready for wit, that can play along. ♦

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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat again and take The Trip to Italy

I t is springtime in Italy. A blur of soft rain, wild fennel, wisteria, artichokes. In Camogli, a fishing village on the Italian Riviera, the late afternoon sun has drawn the people outside: early tourists peruse the gelaterias, a small dog chases seagulls along the beach, and on a hotel terrace Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon stand looking out over the blue waters of the Golfo Paradiso.

Both wear a British approximation of a Riviera look – chinos, light blazers, inoffensive shirts and soft shoes, and are in deep discussion about how best to seduce young Italian women. "Come back to my house and have a stand-up bath," Coogan says, in an exaggerated Italian accent. "Then we will have sex."

Brydon stares out across the water. "I'd just ask what type of breakfast cereal they like," he says.

The pair are here in Italy to film the second instalment of The Trip , the BBC series directed by Michael Winterbottom that despite its unusual format – a kind of unstructured, unscripted circumnavigation of a comedy show – proved to be hugely successful with audiences and critics. Last year the writer and director Richard Curtis named it one of the greatest television programmes of all time.

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The premise of season one was that Coogan had been commissioned by the Observer to set out on a gastronomic tour of the north of England , from the Inn at Whitewell in the Trough of Bowland to the Yorke Arms in the Yorkshire Dales. For complicated reasons involving the breakdown of his relationship, he ends up inviting Brydon to join him.

It was about the food, of course – the preparation and presentation of each dish was lovingly shot. But it was also about many other things besides. Brydon and Coogan played fictionalised versions of themselves, and along the way there were hand-dived scallops, one-night stands, sticky toffee puddings, Michael Caine impersonations , much bickering, pork belly and quoting of Romantic poets . In among it all were touching ruminations on fame, success, and what it means to be male and in midlife.

Season two, The Trip to Italy , presents a similar, if sunnier, scenario: a food tour from Liguria to Capri, via Rome and Pompeii and Ravello, again on behalf of the Observer . This time, though, there has been a shift in the pair's relationship: where the first series chose Coogan as its focus, this time it is Brydon who's reviewing the restaurants and finds his life in flux – his career in ascendance, his marriage at sea.

Some while later, I spot them together in the hotel bar. The cameras are no longer rolling, yet the conversation could easily have been plucked from any episode of The Trip . Brydon is eating a Lion Bar; Coogan is inspecting the interior decor. "Look at this," he tells Brydon. "It's curved glass. Very expensive. And you know the thing is, there's no need for it." Brydon looks up and frowns. He has been busy scrolling through his iPhone, hunting for a Rod Stewart song – a rare recording of Hot Legs. "Are you ready?" he asks. "Listen to this!"

The decision to return for another series took some deliberation. "Certainly after the first one I didn't want to do another," says Brydon. "I thought that's it now, there's nothing else we can do. But then time passes …" Coogan agrees. "And Michael said he was going to do it in Italy," he says. "And I thought it sounded nice."

Without even the aid of stand-up baths or breakfast cereals, Italy has somehow quickly seduced them. "I arrived here just knackered, thinking I don't really want to do this," admits Coogan. "And then we sat down and started eating, and drinking nice wine, and I thought this is quite nice. I slowly slid into it."

Already there have been some at least semi-memorable meals: "That pasta, in that bowl," Coogan says enthusiastically. "A ravioli," he adds. "What the Italians do very well are simple foods with simple ingredients, but they have the best ingredients. They send us all the shit stuff. They hang on to the best tomatoes …"

Brydon nods. "I quite enjoy going to Carluccio's if I'm in Kingston town centre," he says. "I've nothing against Carluccio, but it puts it in perspective when you're out here." Coogan smirks. "He's a friend of yours, isn't he?" he asks, and Brydon adopts his best Ronnie Corbett tone: "He's a friend, a very dear friend, we play celebrity golf together."

"Italian was all I ate as a younger man," he continues. "Not so much nowadays. I seek out fish more now – it feels like you're putting decent things inside you're body. I used to have a massive appetite for sweets and chocolate and rubbish, but it's really dropped off."

Coogan looks surprised. "Did you?" he asks. "Mine's got more. I like tea and chocolate in the evening in front of the telly. Sometimes I'll have Sleepytime tea. But I mix it up: I play fast and loose with my tea." Brydon leans over. "That's Steve all over," he says in a conspiratorial tone. "Try and predict what he's going to be having and you're on a hiding to nothing." Coogan nods. "I try and surprise myself. Loretta'll say, 'What kind of tea'll you have?' And I say, 'You know what, I'm going to have mint.' " Brydon shakes his head. "It's Loretta I feel sorry for," he says. "It's a rollercoaster."

The success of series one surprised them. Winterbottom had cajoled them into taking part over lunch, and they had turned him down twice. "I thought it would just be self-indulgent, because a person playing himself is not an original idea. But then I said to Rob, 'Let's just do it. It's Michael doing it. The worst it can be is a noble failure.' " It was in the Lake District, around the time they shot at L'Enclume , that Coogan began to have a feeling it might be something special. "Because I couldn't think of anything it was derivative of."

This is not to suggest that either of them entirely understands it. In lieu of scripts, Winterbottom will give them a story, a scenario, topics for discussion (in this case, anything from the Italian adventures of Byron and Shelley to the merits of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill ), and then the pair allow the conversation to meander off at their leisure.

But the edits and the structure of each episode belong to Winterbottom, and at times his cuts have proved baffling. "It's like if anything smacks of craft, he'll kick against it," says Coogan. "He deliberately wants to deconstruct things, in a way I find a bit frustrating. You'll say: 'Why have you left all that? We're just repeating ourselves!' And then Michael says: 'Well life's repetitive.' "

We head into town for dinner, the assorted cast and crew taking over a long table in a near-deserted restaurant overlooking the beach. There is calamari, swordfish, giant prawns, baskets of focaccia, and the restaurant's silence is broken by Brydon's phone, spilling out the new Rod Stewart album through its speaker, and by a ceaseless run of impressions: Paul McCartney, Roger Moore singing Simon and Garfunkel, and an assortment of increasingly risqué tales all related in the voice of Alan Bennett. "I watched the young women swimming," runs one such story. "Their legs opening and closing beneath the water. Opening and closing. Opening and closing. Opening and closing. And then opening once again …"

I meet them in London some months later. We are lunching at Quo Vadis, the Soho institution recently revived once more by the Hart Brothers, who introduced a seasonal British menu.

Brydon is already at the table when Coogan arrives. Once again they are wearing near-identical outfits. "We do this so often," he says. "I nearly wore a blue jumper underneath my slightly tweedy jacket. And what have you got on your feet?" They are both wearing brown brogues. "Brown!" laughs Coogan. "I like to have a bit of 'whoa' on your feet."

It has been a particularly successful year for Coogan, with the success of Alpha Papa and Philomena , and the prize for outstanding achievement at the British Comedy Awards. The pair adopt their familiar dynamic in which Coogan is the feted Hollywood mingler and Brydon the aspiring star.

"I was chatting to Warren Beatty the other day …" Coogan says as they inspect the menu. "Ha ha ha!" bleats Brydon. "How is he? I haven't seen him in ages! I don't think I've seen him since last Christmas!"

Coogan, aware of quite how ludicrous his life has become, laughs a steady "chuck chuck chuck". "He invited me round to his house," he says, and Brydon frowns: "Why?" Coogan shrugs. "Because he'd heard that I was someone worth talking to."

Brydon shakes his head. "OK," he says, "let's talk about this, I want detail. Tell us everything. Take your time."

The waiter arrives and Brydon orders the shepherd's pie. "Well then I should get something different. I wanted to get that but I might have a nibble of yours. What's a coquelet?" He asks the waiter, and then looks horrified at the explanation. "REALLY?" he says. "Did you hear that? Well what's an onglet? I'm scared to ask! I'll have the lamb."

Brydon is keen to return to the matter of Warren Beatty. "Have you ever met Warren?" Coogan asks him.

"Have I ever met Warren? Has Warren ever met me?" Brydon replies. "I just bumped into Aled Jones and Lorraine Kelly in the street. They told me to tell you how much they enjoyed Philomena . Bravo, bravo, they said." Coogan laughs. "So on the one hand you've got Warren," continues Brydon, "and on the other you've got Aled and Lorraine."

It is hard to steer them on to the subject of food. Conversation with Coogan and Brydon is a little like Morecambe and Wise making breakfast: more about the perfectly synched performance than the fact they're making toast.

They will begin discussing the incredible meals they enjoyed in Italy – the seafood linguine, the-remarkable-risotto-in-that-family-restaurant-up-the-steps-that-very-hot-day, and then Brydon will go scurrying off on to the matter of Bobby Davro in a hot tub or Coogan will suddenly address the peculiar melancholy of business hotels: "One of those places that looks nice from the outside but it's got fire doors on the inside and those reinforcements they put on stairs – the rubber or brass strips on the steps. You see them and it does take a little bit of your soul."

How important, I ask, is food to The Trip ? "I was far less aware of it this time," Brydon says, part-way through his Arbroath smokie. "I was far more aware of the need to be interesting. I ate a lot less, because I was wolfing it down on the first series and I put on eight pounds. I haven't put any weight on this time. But this time the actual meals I found to be a slight inconvenience or a distraction."

They remember the conversations more clearly: "Have you seen the Ravello scene?" Brydon asks Coogan. "We are so drunk. Look at my eyes in that scene. That was so funny. We're doing Gore Vidal and you were trying to remember that quote and swearing 'cause I'm drunk, but determined to get the quote out."

Then there was the day Brydon had to eat a stuffed onion while nursing a fiendish hangover. "I was ill," he recalls. "I'd been quite excessive the night before. I was feeling deathly, and I was having to bloody eat."

Coogan laughs: "I said, 'You're going to have to act like you're not ill.' That was my acting advice."

Series two was, they say, akin to a travelling circus, moving from town to town, eating, drinking, sitting on beaches. "It was magical," Brydon says warmly. "It was a proper trip. You see us progress from the north to the south and that's what we did."

"Actually our relationship was pretty similar," says Coogan. "We went through our own little odyssey off-screen as well." Brydon agrees. "I think we became closer," he says, and Coogan hesitates, fork midway to his mouth.

"I don't like that word," he says, and they laugh.

"Steve struggles with his feelings," explains Brydon, "but I know if he were a man who could express his feelings he would say that he feels closer to me as well."

Certainly there is a warmth to their relationship that seemed less evident when I visited them during the first series; then Coogan had seemed to do the bulk of the talking while Brydon sat quietly and said little. Today, they share pie and figgy pudding, divulge unrepeatable gossip, give one another career advice.

But despite best intentions they do not socialise off screen. "It's one of those things where life gets in the way," says Coogan. "Having said that, that probably lends itself very well to us working together. Because we haven't said everything already."

Brydon suddenly takes out his phone. "I've got a video of him diving off a cliff. Do you want to see it?" he says, and digs through his picture archive. "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Coogan, diving from a cliff."

He shows us the footage: a warm spring day, a steep cliff, blue water and Coogan arcing into the air. "That cliff," says Brydon fondly, "was as much a metaphor as much as it was a cliff." Coogan watches it over again. "I was quite scared," he says.

"I tell you what was nice this time," Brydon continues, "was that quite often when Steve and I would stay in the nice hotel and everyone else would stay in the cheaper hotel down the road, it meant that having acted eating meals each day we would find ourselves just the two of us sharing a meal at the end of the day. And it turned out to be really lovely. We actually opened up to each other a bit. We bonded a bit."

"We did," says Coogan. "Sometimes it was more interesting than on screen." Brydon looks back at the video of Coogan, diving into the Italian sea. "And now," he says, with a tenderness that seems as genuine as it is comic, "well now we're very happy together."

Six of the restaurants Coogan and Brydon visit on their Italian tour

Cenobio dei Dogi, Camogli Ligurian cooking, famed for its use of olives, pine nuts and basil, and best summed up by the simple pesto alla genovese.

La Suvera, Pievescola The hotel's L'Oliviera restaurant, inside an old olive mill, offers signature dishes such as lobster ravioli with broccoli.

La Cantina, San Fruttuoso With its sublime setting on the edge of the sea, you'd be advised to try the seafood, particularly the fritto misto.

Il Riccio, Capri A stylish hangout, renowned for the abundance of its seafood buffet and dessert specialities such as baba and delizie al limone.

Villa Cimbrone, Salerno Won its first Michelin star last year for a menu that draws on the produce grown on site.

Oliver Glowig, Rome German chef Glowig relocated to Rome and earned two Michelin stars in the process. Expect veal fillet with peanuts and mint-flavour escargot, and spaghetti with oyster and cauliflower.

The Trip to Italy premieres at the Sundance film festival on 20 January. The TV series will be broadcast on the BBC later in the year

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