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Post by spiderwort on Oct 21, 2019 15:05:03 GMT
What are some films shot in cities (real or invented) that you really enjoy because of how well they use the urban landscape? When I see a film set in a city, I love to experience the location through the images the filmmaker uses to tell the story.
Some of mine would include:
The Crowd (1928) - King Vidor
Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang
Blade Runner - (1982) - Ridley Scott
Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
The 400 Blows (1959) - Francois Truffaut
On the Waterfront (1954) - Elia Kazan
The Bicycle Thieves (1948) - Vittorio De Sica
Roma, Open City (1945) - Roberto Rosselli
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Post by Archie on Oct 21, 2019 15:06:30 GMT
The American Friend.
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Post by Javi on Oct 21, 2019 15:33:23 GMT
The Buenos Aires of Happy Together.
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Post by TerryMontana on Oct 21, 2019 16:05:20 GMT
Metropolis, Blade Runner, On the Waterfront, After Hours, Manhattan, Robocop, Dark City.
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Post by jimmalone on Oct 21, 2019 17:39:22 GMT
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
The Naked City (1948, Jules Dassin)
Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
Wings of Desire (1987, Wim Wenders)
not a "classic" film, but a great recent example:
Midnight in Paris (2011, Woody Allen)
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 21, 2019 17:51:06 GMT
Ghost in the Shell (1995) -- I don't feel at home in the urban landscape. I'm especially freaked out by Arlington VA, which is a giant prison city that people pay big money to live in. Gives me the heebie-jeebies. No other movie has successfully replicated my anxiety so well as this film, in which Motoko is not at home anywhere in this vast metropolis.
A Ghost Story (2016) -- In a similar vein, there are passages to this movie that are deeply unsettling in the way they use our modern monoliths.
Girl Walk // All Day (2011) -- On the flipside, we have this: A no-budget, dialogue-free musical(?) filmed on the streets of NYC that successfully uses both the touristy destinations and the less frequented parts of town.
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Post by Javi on Oct 21, 2019 20:14:14 GMT
Oh, and how to forgot Nicolas Roeg's Venice? ( Don't Look Now) Or Scorsese's New York obviously especially in his 70s stuff  |
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