Movie Locations Videos

The slowest series ever. In November 2007, I posted Part 1, arriving in San Francisco; in November 2008, I posted Videoblogging The Conversation; this year it s Vertigo. And they were all shot in November 2006. Holy shitsticks, I ve aged more in the last three years than this movie location has in the last 50! Formats available: MPEG4 Podcast File (.mp4)

The slowest series ever. In November 2007, I posted Part 1, arriving in San Francisco; in November 2008, I posted Videoblogging The Conversation; this year it s Vertigo. And they were all shot in November 2006. Holy shitsticks, I ve aged more in the last three years than this movie location has in the last 50! Formats available: MPEG4 Podcast File (.mp4)

(yes, my side of the screen is supposed to be silent) this one has a bit of a story behind it. 5 years ago, we came out here to the Comox Valley for six months so I could finish writing a novel that id already been working on for a year. it was about a young wannabe director who goes to America, visits movie locations and starts to lose the line between fantasy and reality. it was pretty funny - and I had a great agent - and everybody thought it was going to be a massive hit - and i fucking BLEW IT i came back from Canada with the book unfinished and started working for my dads aluminium company. i blamed this on a car accident, which i said had stopped me writing. really though (ive never admitted this before) i couldve finished it if Id just fucking knuckled down and applied myself. but there you go. 18 months and multiple thousand quid down the bog. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA then we had Amy, three years passed. the aluminium company went bust, and i went freelance (same thing, more or less). but before i got properly lost in freelance hell (see this video for evidence) i gave the book one last shot. i flew out to San Francisco by myself in november 2006 to revisit the movie locations id been writing about. the idea was that id write and videoblog while i was there - the sights and sounds would fuel a reimagining of the story - and id return with a vision of how to tie together all my unfinished fragments. instead i just lost the line between fantasy and reality. so these clips have been sitting unwatched and unedited on my hard drive - a bit too guilt-inducing to open - until now. life is a bit more back on track, were back in canada, i have a good steady job working for someone i like and im starting to feel like i can write again so i reopened the box. i havent looked at them all again yet, but i have clips from movie locations all around the san francisco bay area. if you like this and want more, let me know and ill hack some of them together. and the answer is Yes, this really was shot in Room 773 of the Cathedral Hill Hotel(map), formerly the Jack Tar Hotel, spinetinglingly unchanged 32 years later. and if you havent seen Coppolas (and Murchs) The Conversation, then what are you doing still reading this? you should be on Amazon or Netflix buying or renting it. Author: twittervlog Keywords: movielocations locations movies film francis ford coppola theconversation hackman ruperthowe twittervlog genehackman Added: November 11, 2008

(yes, my side of the screen is supposed to be silent) this one has a bit of a story behind it. 5 years ago, we came out here to the Comox Valley for six months so I could finish writing a novel that i d already been working on for a year. it was about a young wannabe director who goes to America, visits movie locations and starts to lose the line between fantasy and reality. it was pretty funny - and I had a great agent - and everybody thought it was going to be a massive hit - and i fucking BLEW IT i came back from Canada with the book unfinished and started working for my dad s aluminium company. i blamed this on a car accident, which i said had stopped me writing. really though (i ve never admitted this before) i could ve finished it if I d just fucking knuckled down and applied myself. but there you go. 18 months and multiple thousand quid down the bog. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA then we had Amy, three years passed. the aluminium company went bust, and i went freelance (same thing, more or less). but before i got properly lost in freelance hell, i gave the book one last shot. i flew out to San Francisco by myself in november 2006 to revisit the movie locations i d been writing about. the idea was that i d write and videoblog while i was there - the sights and sounds would fuel a reimagining of the story - and i d return with a vision of how to tie together all my unfinished fragments. instead i just lost the line between fantasy and reality. so these clips have been sitting unwatched and unedited on my hard drive - a bit too guilt-inducing to open - until now. life is a bit more back on track, we re back in canada, i have a good steady job working for someone i like and i m starting to feel like i can write again so i reopened the box. i haven t looked at them all again yet, but i have clips from movie locations all around the san francisco bay area. if you like this and want more, let me know and i ll hack some of them together. i ve also just installed the AddThis plugin, something i ve been meaning to do for a while. so if you like a video, you can easily add it to a social bookmarking site like StumbleUpon or Delicious so other people can find it, too. and the answer is Yes, this really was shot in Room 773 of the Cathedral Hill Hotel (map), formerly the Jack Tar Hotel, spinetinglingly unchanged 32 years later. and if you haven t seen Coppola s (and Murch s) The Conversation, then what are you doing still reading this? you should be on Amazon or Netflix buying or renting it. Podcast file (iPod/iPhone compatible)

(yes, my side of the screen is supposed to be silent) this one has a bit of a story behind it. 5 years ago, we came out here to the Comox Valley for six months so I could finish writing a novel that i d already been working on for a year. it was about a young wannabe director who goes to America, visits movie locations and starts to lose the line between fantasy and reality. it was pretty funny - and I had a great agent - and everybody thought it was going to be a massive hit - and i fucking BLEW IT i came back from Canada with the book unfinished and started working for my dad s aluminium company. i blamed this on a car accident, which i said had stopped me writing. really though (i ve never admitted this before) i could ve finished it if I d just fucking knuckled down and applied myself. but there you go. 18 months and multiple thousand quid down the bog. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA then we had Amy, three years passed. the aluminium company went bust, and i went freelance (same thing, more or less). but before i got properly lost in freelance hell, i gave the book one last shot. i flew out to San Francisco by myself in november 2006 to revisit the movie locations i d been writing about. the idea was that i d write and videoblog while i was there - the sights and sounds would fuel a reimagining of the story - and i d return with a vision of how to tie together all my unfinished fragments. instead i just lost the line between fantasy and reality. so these clips have been sitting unwatched and unedited on my hard drive - a bit too guilt-inducing to open - until now. life is a bit more back on track, we re back in canada, i have a good steady job working for someone i like and i m starting to feel like i can write again so i reopened the box. i haven t looked at them all again yet, but i have clips from movie locations all around the san francisco bay area. if you like this and want more, let me know and i ll hack some of them together. i ve also just installed the AddThis plugin, something i ve been meaning to do for a while. so if you like a video, you can easily add it to a social bookmarking site like StumbleUpon or Delicious so other people can find it, too. and the answer is Yes, this really was shot in Room 773 of the Cathedral Hill Hotel (map), formerly the Jack Tar Hotel, spinetinglingly unchanged 32 years later. and if you haven t seen Coppola s (and Murch s) The Conversation, then what are you doing still reading this? you should be on Amazon or Netflix buying or renting it. Podcast file (iPod/iPhone compatible)

Filed under: Action, Classics, Drama, Paramount, Tom Cruise On the heels of the terrible Universal Studios fire comes word of another landmark movie location gone up in flames. San Diego's Kansas City Barbeque, which can be seen in Top Gun (watch one of its memorable scenes, dubbed in Italian, above), was been gutted by a fire that started yesterday in an open cooking pit. According to the AP article reporting on the fire, the restaurant was used for the scene in which Maverick (Tom Cruise) first picks up Charlie (Kelly McGillis) by singing "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," but this is incorrect (that scene was shot in Coronado, at the Officer's Club at Naval Air Station North Island). Kansas City Barbeque was used for the above scene in which Goose (Anthony Edwards) and Maverick are singing "Great Balls of Fire," as well as the final scene when "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" is playing on the jukebox. The restaurant had capitalized on the fact that Top Gun was filmed there, and as you can see on its website, people referred to it as the "Top Gun Bar." You could even purchase Top Gun merchandise there and see props from the film, including the piano that Goose plays on and the jukebox from the end. Although the fire was reportedly extinguished in only 20 minutes, the restaurant has been destroyed and apparently those props are now lost forever. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Find out where famous flicks like LA Confidential were filmed as we explore Los Angeles in this film location tour.

I ve been meaning to post this all year, but I got too busy. Now I can t wait any longer to share it with you. Jay and Ryanne and GoGen and David and a whole lot of other people have inspired me recently with films of travels and faraway places. This is very different to the kind of quiet moments of beauty they observe record - but watching theirs made me get off my arse and do something with mine. I m going to try to cut together more from this trip, maybe once a week - as part of my NaBloPoMo daily posting. PS - Geek note - This wasn t shot cut on the N93, as the title card says, but shot on a tiny Canon Ixus/Powershot 900 pocket stills camera. Amazing. Gotta love those Canons for quality, low light colour. (Cut on iMovie) Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)