Premium Member Robert Edge Posted February 23, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted February 23, 2005 I want to rent some films that take place in a major city (N.Y., London, Mexico City, Paris, Rome, etc.) where the city is, for lack of a better word, a character - films in which there are lots of exterior scenes and the city is not just a pretty backdrop, but plays an important role in the feel of the film or progress of the story. Suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Wells Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Godard's "Alphaville" ! Wim Wenders' "Wings Of Desire" (Berlin) Tran Anh Hung's "Cyclo" (Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City) -Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boone Hudgins Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Nashville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Maeda Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 annie hall...manhattan... blade runner jk :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Tanouye Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Training Day and Collateral for Los Angeles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Wendell_Greene Posted February 24, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted February 24, 2005 Los Angeles: Heat, Collateral, To Live and Die In LA, LA Story, Chinatown, LA Confidential, The Player, Stand and Deliver, Beverly Hills Cop, Menace2Society, Boyz in the Hood, American Me, Born in East LA, Grand Canyon, La Vida Loca, Swingers, Training Day, Chicago: The Fugitive, Love Jones, The Untouchables, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Chicago, Thief (michael Mann) Paris: Subway, Le Femme Nikita, La Atalante, A View To A Kill, Moulin Rouge, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Henry and June, Amelie, The Red Balloon, Washington DC: All The President's Men, Broadcast News, Enemy of The State San Francisco: Vertigo, Dirty Harry, Bullitt, The Graduate, Tales of the City, The Game, The Rock Venice: Merchant of Venice, Henry Jaglom's Venice/Venice, Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, Bread and Tulips, New York: After Hours, New York, New York, Do The Right Thing, Summer of Sam, In The Cut, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Midnight Cowboy, A Panic In Needle Park, King of New York, The King of Comedy, Sugar Hill London: 28 Days Later, Notting Hill, From Hell, Dirty Pretty Things, Mona Lisa, Nil By Mouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Nathan Milford Posted February 24, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted February 24, 2005 The Naked City! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Andino Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Hey--The French Connection--& The French Connection II Very good movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Salzmann Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Taking of Pelham One,Two, Three Panic in Needle Park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Michael Nash Posted February 25, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted February 25, 2005 Well for Rome, there's Felini's Roma. I especially loved the impressionistic highway sequence. Speaking of Italy, Stealing Beauty comes to mind as giving a great sense of place and lifestyle for Tuscany. Seven creates a very strong sense of a disgusting, decaying urban environment that factors largely into the story. Although filmed in Los Angeles, it's supposed to be a generic and fictional yet stylized American city. I was just having this discussion the other day in fact, and noted that Michael Mann has always been adept at tying the city into the story, especially visually. Collateral and TV's Robbery Homicide Division captured a lot of ambient nighttime vistas with HD, before that it was Heat and TV's Miami Vice. In the case of Miami Vice, it was again a stylized and abstracted view of Miami that didn't quite actually exist, yet pulled from real elements to create a kind of color-noir view of Miami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Maeda Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 any antonioni film from the 60's or 70's jk :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff striker Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Well for Rome, there's Felini's Roma. I especially loved the impressionistic highway sequence. Speaking of Italy, Stealing Beauty comes to mind as giving a great sense of place and lifestyle for Tuscany. Seven creates a very strong sense of a disgusting, decaying urban environment that factors largely into the story. Although filmed in Los Angeles, it's supposed to be a generic and fictional yet stylized American city. I was just having this discussion the other day in fact, and noted that Michael Mann has always been adept at tying the city into the story, especially visually. Collateral and TV's Robbery Homicide Division captured a lot of ambient nighttime vistas with HD, before that it was Heat and TV's Miami Vice. In the case of Miami Vice, it was again a stylized and abstracted view of Miami that didn't quite actually exist, yet pulled from real elements to create a kind of color-noir view of Miami. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> that reminds me of wes anderson's portrayal of new york in the royal tenenbaums. its an abstracted view of NY using places and things that don't exist (375th street Y and the Gypsy Cabs chain), yet avoiding any noticeable landmarks. its a very charming look at the city. it reminds me of how i envisioned new york as a kid before i had been there. anyways los angeles/hollywood: Robert Altman's "Short Cuts", tim burton's "Ed Wood" france: any of the Antoine Doinel films by Truffaut, Amelie (jeunet) new york: eyes wide shut (kubrick), the royal tenenbaums, washington dc: being there (ashby) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidSloan Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 (edited) Los Angeles: Heat, Collateral, To Live and Die In LA, LA Story, Chinatown, LA Confidential, The Player, Stand and Deliver, Beverly Hills Cop, Menace2Society, Boyz in the Hood, American Me, Born in East LA, Grand Canyon, La Vida Loca, Swingers, Training Day, Chicago: The Fugitive, Love Jones, The Untouchables, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Chicago, Thief (michael Mann) Paris: Subway, Le Femme Nikita, La Atalante, A View To A Kill, Moulin Rouge, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Henry and June, Amelie, The Red Balloon, Washington DC: All The President's Men, Broadcast News, Enemy of The State San Francisco: Vertigo, Dirty Harry, Bullitt, The Graduate, Tales of the City, The Game, The Rock Venice: Merchant of Venice, Henry Jaglom's Venice/Venice, Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, Bread and Tulips, New York: After Hours, New York, New York, Do The Right Thing, Summer of Sam, In The Cut, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Midnight Cowboy, A Panic In Needle Park, King of New York, The King of Comedy, Sugar Hill London: 28 Days Later, Notting Hill, From Hell, Dirty Pretty Things, Mona Lisa, Nil By Mouth <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Before Sunrise takes place in Vienna! ;) Other films that have a strong sense of location as character are Tarkovsky's: Stalker, The Crow, the first Batman film, City of God, Crooklyn, Gerry... Edited February 28, 2005 by DavidSloan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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