The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations

Author: Tony Reeves
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
For all those fans who wonder where their favorite movies were filmed or what it would be like to visit the sites, this book is the ultimate resource. It features information on blockbuster, cult, and art house favorites from Saturday Night Fever to Men in Black, from Belle du Jour to Ben Hur. The entries for individual films include brief descriptions of key scenes shot at the location, travel details, photographs, film stills, behind-the-scenes information, and insights as to what these places are really like. Also included are full-color features on major sites of special interest—Vertigo’s San Francisco, Woody Allen’s Manhattan, and a world Star Wars tour, among others—along with more obscure locations that have become sought-after travel destinations simply because of their connection to the movies.

World Film Locations: Athens

Author: Anna Poupou
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783203420
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
A filmic guidebook of the Greek capital, World Film Locations: Athens takes readers to film locations in the central historical district with excursions to the periphery of Athens – popular neighbourhoods, poor suburbs and slums often represented in postwar neorealist films – and then on to garden cities and upper class suburbs, especially those preferred by the auteurs of the 1970s. Of course, no Grecian vacation would be complete without a visit to the sea, and summer resorts, hotels and beaches near Athens are frequent backdrops for international productions. However, more recent economic strife has emptied city neighbourhoods, created urban violence and caused an increase in riots in the Mediterranean city, and representations of this on film are juxtaposed with images of the eternal and idyllic city. Featuring both Greek and foreign productions from various genres and historical periods, World Film Locations: Athens ultimately works to establish connections between the various aesthetics of dominant representations of Athens.

World Film Locations

Author: Özlem Köksal
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 9781841505671
Category : Film locations
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This text will appeal to both readers interested in Istanbul and those who are keen to deepen their knowledge of Turkish cinema. The films and locations included in the book are selected carefully, based on their impact in case of films and on importance in case of locations.

World Film Locations: Singapore

Author: Duncan Petrie
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783203463
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
A vibrant city and country nestled at the foot of the Malaysian peninsula, Singapore has long been a crossroads, a stopping point and a cultural hub where goods, inventions and ideas are shared and traded. Though Singapore was home to a flourishing Chinese and Malay film industry in the 1950s and 1960s, between independence in 1965 and the early 1990s, few movies were made in Singapore. A new era for cinema in the sovereign city-state started with the international recognition of Eric Khoo’s first features, followed by a New Wave comprised of graduates from local film schools. In recent years the Singapore film industry has produced commercially successful fare, such as the horror movie The Maid, as well as more artistic films like Sandcastle, the first Singaporean film to be selected for International Critic’s Week at Cannes and Ilo Ilo, which won the Caméra d’or at Cannes in 2013. Covering the myths that surround Singaporean film and exploring the realities of the movies that come from this exciting city, World Film Locations: Singapore introduces armchair travellers to a rich, but less known, national cinema

World Film Locations: Barcelona

Author: Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 178320107X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Barcelona is one of the world’s most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudí, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all over the world – among them Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar and Michelangelo Antonioni – have set their films there. World Film Locations: Barcelona is the first book of its kind to explore the rich cinematic history of this seductive Catalonian city. The illuminating essays collected here cover essential themes of the city’s cinematic history, including the origins of cinema in Barcelona; the role of Ciutat Vella (old quarter) as a film set; the influential Barcelona School of the 1960s; the film presence of Gaudí and his work; changing attitudes and urban renewal before and after the 1992 Olympics; and the emergence of a new generation of female filmmakers that have made Barcelona the centre of their cinematic explorations. This book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of anyone enchanted by the beauty of Barcelona, whether in person on the big screen.

World Film Locations: Florence

Author: Alberto Zambenedetti
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783203447
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations: Florence explores the city as it is manifested in the minds of filmmakers and filmgoers. Contributors to the collection consider a wide range of topics, including the tourist’s perception of Florence, representations of art and artists on screen, the camera-friendly Tuscan countryside and mouthwatering local cuisine and filmic adaptations of canonical Italian literature. Through scene reviews of films, including Bobby Deerfield, A Room with a View, Tea with Mussolini and Under the Tuscan Sun, World Film Locations: Florence delves deeper into the makeup of the city, looking at both familiar and unfamiliar locations through the lens of such filmmakers as Roberto Rossellini, Mario Monicelli, Brian DePalma and Ridley Scott.

James Bond's London

Author: Gary Giblin
Publisher: Daleon Enterprises Incorporated
ISBN: 9780971313309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
* Visit Fleming's (and Bond's) favorite hotels, restaurants, pubs and clubs as well as Fleming's birthplace and homes. * Dress to kill at 007's private tailors. * Rendezvous at the "Russian" hotel from "Golden-Eye", the "Hamburg" car park where Bond's BMW blazed into action in "Tomorrow Never Dies" and the "Afghan" air base from "The Living Daylights"- all without leaving London! * The real-life and reel-life MI16HQ. Early London Homes of Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Pierce Brosnan . Dozens of 007 landmarks and institutions, including the Bank of England, the Houses of Parliament, De Beers. Sotheby's, Harrods, Lloyd's, Scotland Yard, Tower Bridge, and more. Includes rare photographs, directions to locations, behind the scenes information on every site, comments from the filmmakers and actors and family and friends of Ian Fleming. With a Foreword by Bond Director Hunt and a Tribute to Ian Fleming by his cousin, actor Christopher Lee, James Bond's london is a must for armchair travelers and real-life adventurers alike.

London Movie Guide

Author: Simon James
Publisher: Batsford
ISBN: 9781849940139
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
London is one of the most vibrant and versatile film locations in the world and has provided some of the most stunning settings in film history. This comprehensive guide spans decades of cinema in London, from Brief Encounter (1945) to Sherlock Holmes (2009) A delight for both film buffs and London enthusiasts, this practical guide is organized area-by-area – from the heart of the city to the suburbs – so the reader can explore locations close to where they live, work and play. Films range from classic and cult films such as Alfie, A Clockwork Orange and Withnail and I to more recent blockbusters such as Harry Potter and Bridget Jones, and includes the very latest movies filmed in the metropolis, including The Other Boleyn Girl, Sherlock Holmes and Run, Fatboy, Run. Incorporating annotated maps of film hotspots around town, it is now easier than ever to walk, tour and relive your favourite movie moments in London.

On the tracks of 007

Author: Martijn Mulder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789081329415
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
In this detailed field guide, Mulder and Kloosterboer use 30 travel stories to explain exactly where even the smallest James Bond film scene was shot.

World Film Locations: Toronto

Author: Tom Ue
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783202874
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Toronto is a changing city that has been a source of reflection and inspiration to writers and artists whose work focuses on the conditions and prospects of human life. A city on the move, it demands policies and regulation, and it offers the pleasures and perils of the massive and the anonymous. As a site of study, the city is inherently multidisciplinary, with natural ties to history, geography, sociology, architecture, art history, literature and many other fields. World Film Locations: Toronto explores and reveals the relationship between the city and cinema using a predominately visual approach. The juxtaposition of the images used in combination with insightful essays helps to demonstrate the role that the city has played in a number of hit films, including Cinderella Man, American Psycho and X-Men and encourages the reader to frame an understanding of Toronto and the world around us. The contributors trace Toronto’s emergence as an international city and demonstrate the narrative interests that it has continued to inspire among filmmakers, both Canadian and international. With support from experts in Canadian studies, the book’s selection of films successfully shows the many facets of Toronto and also provides insider’s access to a number of sites that are often left out of scholarship on Toronto in films, such as the Toronto International Film Festival. The 2014 release of this attractive volume will be a particularly welcome addition to the international celebrations of the city’s 180th anniversary.