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Old 06-05-2006, 04:35 AM
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Your Favorite Film Locations?

you know how sometimes the location makes the movie, or at least makes it that much better? which movies stick out in your mind that had locations that really stuck out as a really great aspect of the film?

or in the case of common locations, (ie: nyc) which movies made the best use of them?

i'm completely obsessed with locations

my list:

the talented mr. ripley : venice, rome, all over italy !!!
GF2, the deep end, a place in the sun : lake tahoe CA
once upon a time in the west : monument valley, utah (HOLY SHIT!!)
hud: rural west texas
the great gatsby : newport rhode island
heat, chinatown : GREAT, very different use of LA
mean streets, GF2: east village and little italy, nyc
baby doll : benoit MISS, and stockton CA
the notebook: south carolina
a river runs through it: all over montana, and wyoming
paradise now: nablus, palestine
the misfits: reno and surrounding nevada desert (this one blew me away)


there are tons more but these come to mind right away.

yours?
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the talented mr. ripley : venice, rome, all over italy !!!
chinatown : GREAT, very different use of LA
Chinatown is definitely a good use of LA, and it also looks good in Chinatown wannabes (and great films in their own right) Devil in a Blue Dress, and L.A. Confidential.
I think Italy looks better in A Room With A View than The Talented Mr Ripley. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out.

I love locations that are familiar (which basically limits things to New Zealand and Melbourne), I thought Heavenly Creatures looked great. I used to live across the road from the house that the Hulmes lived in, and have romped in the same gardens they romped in, and run down the same pier they ran down. I've also been in the park where the mother was murdered. It's quite a cool feeling to be basically wandering around in a film set.
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I dont remember where its supposed to take place (colorado?) but in Brokeback Mountain, the scenery was beautiful
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the misfits: reno and surrounding nevada desert (this one blew me away)

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most of the scenary in misfits is in arizona, not nevada. it was cheaper to film here than over the border a few miles down.

i liked the neighborhood used in edward scissorhands. though it was worked on, the way the streets curved is just so "suburb" and "perfect"

devils rejects, the last picture show, practical magic, the new world, romeo + juliet and lots of other ones.


the surroundings used in garden state were amazing too
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Yes, Tokyo! So much to film for every taste I'm guessing.

I went in the church that one of the last scenes of Catch Me OIf You Can was filmed in. The one where he goes crazy with the money. It looks nothing like that inside. It's very tall and cozy. Right in the middle of Old Quebec City and a block away from the knives/bong/adult stores.

Very nice outside, though.
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the planetarium/hollywood hills area in rebel without a cause. i think its the one in charlies angels II as well. all the cool old houses, i guess that was the 50s though. dont know what its like now, but the area used to be beautiful
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the planetarium/hollywood hills area in rebel without a cause. i think its the one in charlies angels II as well.
the griffith park observatory!

there is going to be (if there isnt already) a james dean statue there. they are currently working on the planetarium so its closed for a while. yeah, its so distinctive in that movie.
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Chinatown is definitely a good use of LA, and it also looks good in Chinatown wannabes (and great films in their own right) Devil in a Blue Dress, and L.A. Confidential.
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haha, LA Confidential is one of my favorite movies ever. Its quite a feat to make the 90s into the 50s, lots of strategy involved there.


i live in san francisco now, and as a film location, its a bit cliche because so many movies get stuck on the monuments and sf's reputation for the noir-ish detective/ hitchcock type thing. that said, vertigo used it very well, and bullit and dirty harry in a very different way. i love how the same place can seem so different from film to film.
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Oh and wherever Pincic at Hanging Rock was filmed (hanging rock clearly, but I don't know where it's near). Just for the creepy factor.
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the misfits: reno and surrounding nevada desert (this one blew me away)

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most of the scenary in misfits is in arizona, not nevada. it was cheaper to film here than over the border a few miles down.

yeah, i couldnt get specific enough details on the IMDB site. there was an arizona listing besdies the nevada ones. i wanted to know where that bleached out desert from the wild horses sequence was...

do you know which casino it was that they were in in the beginning? its probably not there anymore more than likely, but i dont know.. maybe ?


i bet tamara would know since shes reno local.

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i live in san francisco now, and as a film location, its a bit cliche because so many movies get stuck on the monuments and sf's reputation for the noir-ish detective/ hitchcock type thing. that said, vertigo used it very well, and bullit and dirty harry in a very different way. i love how the same place can seem so different from film to film.
If I've learned one thing from TV and movies, it's that San Francisco and Vancouver are interchangeable. That simply must be true, right?
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Chinatown is definitely a good use of LA, and it also looks good in Chinatown wannabes (and great films in their own right) Devil in a Blue Dress, and L.A. Confidential.
I think Italy looks better in A Room With A View than The Talented Mr Ripley. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out.

I love locations that are familiar (which basically limits things to New Zealand and Melbourne), I thought Heavenly Creatures looked great. I used to live across the road from the house that the Hulmes lived in, and have romped in the same gardens they romped in, and run down the same pier they ran down. I've also been in the park where the mother was murdered. It's quite a cool feeling to be basically wandering around in a film set.
That is so awesome. Yet another reason why I need to visit the South Island. And I know what you mean about seeing local places in films, it's kind of nice.

I loved the locations in Amelie. I'm probably only saying that because I just finished watching it about 20 minutes ago and can't think of anything else, but really, the locations are wonderful.
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That is so awesome. Yet another reason why I need to visit the South Island. And I know what you mean about seeing local places in films, it's kind of nice.

I loved the locations in Amelie. I'm probably only saying that because I just finished watching it about 20 minutes ago and can't think of anything else, but really, the locations are wonderful.
My flatmate was watching Goodbye, Pork Pie just now, and it was cool seeing what lots of familiar places looked like in the 70s, all down the length of the country. Exciting scenes of ye olde Invercargill.
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