NEW FILM ONLINE: "Notes on a Scandal"

Year: 2006

Stars: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson

Director: Richard Eyre

Locations: London

Plot: Young married schoolmistress has an affair with one of her young charges and an elder school colleague with lesbian tendencies senses an opportunity.

Number of Stills: 15
Number of 'Now' Shots: 6

Films made near Perugia, Umbria, Italy

And, almost immediately, from a viewer in Perugia, Umbria, Italy:

Films made in my town:

Dead Are Alive, 1972
Seven Orchids, Stained Red, 1972
Torso, 1973
Night Child, 1975
Magnificat, 1993
Don Matteo, 2000

Alessandro Cecchi.

Hope he can get some "thens" and "nows".

"Letters to Juliette"

"Letters to Juliette", with Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave and Amanda Seyfried and made in Verona, New York and Siena, which is just up the road from where we live, and where more than twenty internationally famous films have been made including Brother Sun-Sister Moon, My House in Umbria, Tea With Mussolini, Romeo and Juliet, Under the Tuscan Sun, The English Patient, Quantum of Solace and Gladiator.

www.lapreghiera.com

Wikipedia - List of films set in Berlin

The Last Laugh, 1924

Metropolis, 1927

Asphalt, 1929

People on Sunday, 1930

M, 1931-

Grand Hotel, 1932

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, 1933

Olympia 1938

Murderers Among Us ,1946

A Foreign Affair, 1948

Berliner Ballade, 1948

Berlin Express, 1948

The Search, 1948

Germany Year Zero, 1948

The Big Lift, 1950

The Man Between, 1953

One, Two, Three, 1961 - Coca-Cola Niederlassung, Hildburghauser Strasse 224 - 232, Lichterfelde, and Straße des 17. Juni, Tiergarten, Berlin, and Munich, Bavaria, Germany (imdb)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1965–

Funeral in Berlin, 1966

The Quiller Memorandum, 1966

Torn Curtain, 1966

I Was Nineteen, 1968

A Dandy in Aspic, a 1968

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, 1968

Cabaret, 1972

Die Legende von Paul und Paula, 1973

Einer von uns beiden, 1974

The Marriage of Maria Braun, 1979

Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1980

Berlin Chamissoplatz, 1980

Berlin Tunnel 21, 1981

Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, 1981

Octopussy, 1983

Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987 (Wings of Desire)

Judgment in Berlin, 1988

Linie 1, 1988

Shining Through, 1992

Faraway, So Close!, 1993

Das Leben ist eine Baustelle, 1997

Lola rennt, 1998 (Run Lola Run)

Memory of Berlin, 1998

Aimée & Jaguar, 1999

Sonnenallee, 1999

Conspiracy, 2001

Der Fall Furtwängler, ("Taking Sides") 2001

The Tunnel, 2001

Berlin is in Germany, 2001

Invincible, 2001

Was Tun, Wenn's Brennt?, 2002

Good Bye Lenin!, 2003

Rosenstrasse, 2003

A2Z, 2004

The Bourne Supremacy, 2004

Status Yo!, 2004

Der Untergang, 2004 (Downfall)

Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei, 2004 (The Educators)

Alles auf Zucker, 2005 (Go for Zucker)

Das Leben der Anderen, 2005

Sommer vorm Balkon, 2005 (Summer in Berlin)

Æon Flux, 2005

The Good German, 2006

Knallhart, 2006

Der Rote Kakadu, 2006 (The Red Cockatoo)

Asudem, 2007

Breathful, 2007

Prinzessinnenbad, 2007

A Woman in Berlin, 2008

Berlin Calling, 2008

Valkyrie, 2008

Hitler's Grave, or Heaven's Taxi 2009

Unknown White Male, 2011 (sic)

Some of the films made in San Francisco

From www.movie-locations.com

ALL ABOUT EVE
AMERICAN GRAFFITI
BASIC INSTINCT
THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
THE BIRDS
BULLITT
CHAN IS MISSING
THE CONVERSATION
DARK PASSAGE
DIM SUM
DIRTY HARRY
D.O.A. (1950)
DR DOLITTLE (1998)
Escape from Alcatraz
FAMILY PLOT
FINAL ANALYSIS
THE GAME
GREED
HIGH ANXIETY
HULK
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
THE KILLER ELITE
THE LOVE BUG
MRS DOUBTFIRE
MURDER IN THE FIRST
THE NET
PACIFIC HEIGHTS
PAL JOEY
PANTHER
RAISING CAIN
SISTER ACT
STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
SUDDEN FEAR
THX 1138
TIME AFTER TIME
TITANIC
THE TOWERING INFERNO
VERTIGO
A VIEW TO A KILL
WHAT’S UP DOC?
THE WOMAN IN RED

Can you pull the stills? Can you match them with the real locations?

NEW FILM ONLINE: "Whisky Galore"

Year: 1949

Stars: Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson Justice. John Gregson

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Locations: Castlebay, Isle of Barra

Plot: Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

Number of Stills: 10
Number of 'Now' Shots: 7

NEW FILM ONLINE: "The Clouded Yellow"

Year: 1950

Stars: Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones, Kenneth More

Director: Ralph Thomas

Locations: London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Lake District

Plot: When Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate - cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. After a murder occurs, an exciting chase ensues.

Number of Stills: 29
Number of 'Now' Shots: 7

NEW FILM ONLINE: "Passport to Shame (aka Room 43)"

Year: 1958

Stars: Diana Dors, Herbert Lom, Eddie Constantine, Brenda di Banzi, Jackie Collins

Director: Alvin Rakoff

Locations: West London

Plot: Poor little foreign girl falls into the evil hands of a human trafficker, a "white slaver" in my day, and is saved by the good intentions of a London cabby. Ain't they wonderful?

Number of Stills: 38
Number of 'Now' Shots: 19

LONDON and mebbee HOME COUNTIES - WALKABOUT 30th Sept to 3rd Oct

Another date for your calendar, another ReelStreets walkabout, which films will you choose?

You pull the stills, and together with our roving band of sleuths, we find the locations.

Perhaps Thurs 30th Sept - City/East End.

Fri 1st Oct - let’s say North London and even Hertfordshire.

Sat 2nd Oct - South London, Kent, Surrey?

Sunday 3rd Oct - West End fillers? Choose from almost 400 films online.



Your choice for dates and films, let me know, jon@technet.it