Hope Serena doesn't mind me starting this thread. :D I had the idea last night when I was watching a movies and realised it was shot in a most familair place! :o

A Clockwork Orange

I had never seen this film until last night, and the scenes where the main character is imprisoned and subjected to soem wierd method of reform made me go "oh no!" as they were shot at my old University, Brunel in middlesex. It was so wierd because they walked into the lecture centre following a route I had taken so many times. The wierd computer building is the huge white 60s thing in the background, and I also noticed that they were in the old halls of residence for a scene too, taking in a view that I was very familiar with. Brunel was built in the 60s and I understand got awards for the architectural design at the time. We used to fidn it ugly, it is so concrete but now it is quite something as it ages. Very 60s modernist. It was bizarre how much bleaker the place looked in the movie, but I guess ti was shot when ti had onyl just been built. I had to keep rewindign just to check, as I though that I was imagining things! roflmao I went down there today to locate where ti was shot and it was just crawling in students. They never mentioned this in the prospectus, and when I spoke to someone they said that the University had tried to dissassociate itself with the film as it was banned and highly contraversial. :D

Scandal

The 80s film about the Profumo affair of the 1960s with John Hurt, Joanne Whaley Kilmer. The courtroom scenes were filmed at the Guildhall Courts in Nottignham where I come from and I have visted them a few times. And my best friend was an extra in the movie. She is in the courtroom scenes where they laugh at Mandy Rice Davies's testimony etc. dressed as a schoolgirl - she was about 24 roflmao She got 60 quid for her days' work and said it was great. John Hurt was a real gentleman but Whaley kilmer was a diva and an awkward b*tch :D

roflmao

Good idea for a thread SB :ok:

Well I don't really know of anyfilms shot in Wales to be honest :shrug:
Although I think parts of Tomb Raider 2 were shot in North Wales as they couldn't get the rights to shoot on the Great Wall of China roflmao

But I do like visiting places where movies were shot, and I have been to Hollywood :D

Some of my aims are to go to Tunisia to see where they film Star Wars and New Zealand, such a beautiful country I probably would've gone anyway, but to see where they filmed LOTR.

I don't think ANY movies have been filmed in Washington DC :rolleyes:

Actually, too many to possibly name but they keep ruining the evening traffic patterns trying to film them.

Ok, it's not actually my part of the world, but my mother is from Yorkshire so i figure it counts.

Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves....

The fight between Little John and Robin Hood was filmed at Aysgarth Falls (which i went to after it was filmed....)

The bit where Robin is swimming around nekkid in the water, is at a waterfall (also in Yorkshire) and i can't remembeer it's name, but I went there before it was filmed and you used to be able to climb behind the waterfall. They've stopped people doing it now - when i went back after the film, there were warning signs and stuff :( It's a beautiful waterfall though!!!!

Finally, they filmed the stuff at the beginning where they're walking on a wall and get attacked by Guy of Gisbourne, on Hadrian's Wall.....which is odd, 'cos they landed at Dover, and were heading for Nottingham, somehow via Hadrian's wall on the way???? *scratches head* :wacko:

Oh and they filmed the final castle bits on France, and i can't remember where it is but my mum was telling me her and my dad visited the castle when they were last there....i think she did it to make me jealous :angry:

I remember my parents never stopping talking about visiting the set of 'Whistle Down the Wind' which was filmed near Clitheroe in Lancashire (t'other side of Pendle for those in the know)

It's a Hayley Mills classic where she finds an escaped convict in a barn and thinks he's JC...

I went to Tunisai, but no tfor that. I visted the Ribat (old fortress) in Monastir, and whilst there discovered that some of the scenes in The Life of Brian by Monty Python were shot there. I also met a man (rather tasty and good looking too may I add :D ) who did extras work, mainly stunts and battle scenes for movies that came their way. There was actually a film studio, but it onyl opened when the odd film was made. He worked for them when needed and had bene in Pirates by Roan Polanski which was partly filmed in Monastir. I thought he was lying until I saw the pictures, and Mr Polanski himself was there with this guy. And I had a flign with this bloke, he asked me to marry him and I told him to sod off and no green card for him! That's about as close i get to datign the stars! roflmao And I can see why he was a stunt man. ;)

Never been there but heard all abotu it. LOVe that film, it's a real classic and a tear jerker.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman actually turned it into a musical. I actually saw the premier run in DC back in 1996 and, personally, I liked it (unlike the reviewers and most of the people I was with).
The re-release got better reviews in London.

Not a movie, but a lot of TV filming used to go on around the university campus where I worked until last year - mainly "Taggart" and "Sea of Souls" In one episode of Taggart I spotted the same hundred square meters of gardens and buildings being used for four different locations when filmed from different angles.

They also film bits of Sea of Souls just down the street from my new work.

There was an old BBC drama called "The Mad Death" about rabid dogs in the early 1980s. Scared the hell out of me when I saw a bit of it because there was one particularly scary sequence filmed in a multi-storey car park in my home town that I knew quite well :yikes:

Oh, if we're talking TV series too, they filmed Dangerfield in my home town on a Sunday morning :D

There was a film starring Dot Cotton and Penelope Keith that was filmed in Blackpool and Fleetwood (where i was born :) )

I was living in Brighton when they were filming Quadrophenia. My mate got a job as a mod extra during the beach riot scene

Brilliant time...

...Zoot suit, white jacket with side vents five inches long........

hmmm, time to visit youtube methinks...

look, you can just see the back of Gareth's head roflmao

The Who - Cut my Hair

I left it too long to find this and add it to the above post

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fab movie! How cool for your mate :D I love the Quadrophenia album, it's got to eb one fo the best albums of all time, best concept album, best film soundtrack etc, etc. Out of my brain on the 5:15! :D

Love that song, "why should I care if I have to cut my hair, I gotta move with the fashions or be outcast!" :D

Love Regin O'er Me is brilliant too.

You can see me in the cowd in the 'end of a century' video, but it was filmed in Manchester, which isnt my home town :rolleyes:

Well I took a vacation to St Vincent a while ago.
And it was pure coincidence that a certain movie called Pirates of The Caribbean was shooting there.
I ended up checking out the set which was really amazing.
We saw Jhonny Depp.It was pretty cool overall.
Oh and on the tour we took a ride around the island in a boat and alot of the scenes in the movie we could see as we went around the island.
Like the skeletons at the beginning of the movie or the dock where Port Royal was supposedly supposed to be.

It was a great experience overall.

My first post in the CCMD I think!

Can anyone remember "King Ralph" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102216/

Well. its a naff film about the only surviving link to a recently deceased British Royal Family, that link being a Lard Ass American (John Goodman) who they try to turn into a King etc.

Anyways, the love interest in this film is a girl who's family are on real hard times, the area where they live is supposed to convey real poverty. They couldn't have found a more apt place than Dalton, Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
This place was the absolute pits and it is where some of this really bad bit of cinema was filmed.
Thankfully the place has been knocked down now. :D

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Don't want to sound ignorant about poverty within this post, but most of the people who lived there could not give 2 hoots about anyone or anything, could have helped themselves but wouldn't.

Pinewood Studios - just wondered if anyone knew much about how many films they make there these days and what? It's nto that far form where I live in a car, and yet seems to eb shut most fo the time. I do knwo a guy who does electrical work freelance for them, havent; seen him aroudn for a while, but he told me that they did some of the Harry Potter movie there. Does seem odd when I drive past, as it is legendary but you can hardly see antyhing and as I say it is genrally all closed up.

Shepperton Studios os nto far, near Heathrow, but closed down now. They made loads of British horror movies there like Hammer etc.