Project Pedestrian

Tag: Pilgrimage

  • In the footsteps of Celine and Jesse

    In the footsteps of Celine and Jesse

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    Mark Wihak
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    There are films that place walking at the heart of the story. Two favourites that feature characters on foot are Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995), in which the main characters Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) get to know one another while walking around nocturnal Vienna, and Before Sunset (2004), when the two characters…

  • Matthew R. Anderson – Pedestrian

    Matthew R. Anderson – Pedestrian

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    Mark Wihak
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    I had the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Anderson about his books The Good Walk and Someone Else’s Saint, walking on the prairies, and pilgrimage. It was my good fortune that Matthew was back in Saskatchewan to mark the 10th anniversary of the walk from Wood Mountain to the Cypress Hills that forms a significant…