Let's build London! (With bits from films)

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Okay, can I put this big piece here, Thamesmead, from A Clockwork Orange (that's a whole estate), and then move up river to include Limehouse Wharf as it was in The Long Good Friday.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Milennium Dome from The World Is Not Enough.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Go south of the Dome to grab Maryon Park in Charlton as repainted in Blow-Up.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

isle of dogs-full metal jacket.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

250 new answers by midnight.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Round the back of Kings cross, york way goodsway etc. Copenhagen Fields from the Ladykillers. and Pimlico from Passport to Pimlico.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

tower bridge in SPICE WORLD!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

West London = Minder!!! Used car lots and lock ups!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't Passport to Pimlico filmed in Lambeth?

Where is that naggingly familiar street where Bob Hoskins' missus lives at the beginning of Mona Lisa? Looks like Leytonstone but I could be miles out.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The old White City dog track in The Blue Lamp.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Albert Hall in SPICE WORLD!

The Harringey Ladder in Face.

Marcello is spot on, much of Passport To Pimlico was actually filmed in Lambeth, Waterloo arches and the area.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Buckingham Gate round the back of Victoria Street where Paddy Mac made his home in The Prisoner!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

But surely this thread is about areas as films portrayed them so now this thread moves that corner of lambeth across the river.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

finsbury park clash concert - RUDE BOY!
errr....old church in north london - ABOUT A BOY!
covent garden market - ROPE (alfred hitchcock movie)

― doom-e, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Notting Hill as seen in Notting Hill is presumably disqualified on account of film being irredeemable crap.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre = always being used for those vox pop interview thingies!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

No, cos I don't think A Clockwork Orange is actually set in Thamesmead. Back to Lambeth with it say I.

Highbury in the Arsenal Stadium Mystery.

Notting Hill is more than fine but I think we can find better examples of Notting Hill in cinema.
I think you've got the wrong Hitch there Doomie, that's set in New York, and is completely in an apartment.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Inspector Morse's house was in Ealing (though our old flat appeared frequently in the series, clearly visible from Oxon BR station).

Also, Beckton Power Station - Full Metal Jacket!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

doom-e means frenzy, i think
early hitch has some good stuff, but my brain is not working this afternoon

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Newman Arms pub in Peeping Tom. "The East End" from rubbish jack the ripper films all done in a studio. Palace of Westminster from Reign of Fire!

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The opening sequence of Hunted with Dirk Bogarde (early '50s) was largely filmed in and around Pimlico - Vauxhall Bridge Road easily identifiable.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Camden in This Year's Love.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Brixton of course was featured in South West Nine, which I quite liked, though no one else did.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

it has a uk and us title - buggers it up for remember - about the strnagler who goes around killing the ladiezzzzz? that was set in covent garden market.

thamesmead = a clockwork orange - i know because sophie and i read an article about it and we went there for valentine's day.

― doom-e, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Russell Square in 'Quatermass & the Pit'? (or was it 'Death Line'?)

― dave q, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Vic Naylors from Lock Stock and Two smoking Barrels.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Victim (Richard Burton gangster flick, early '70s) - partly filmed in my old workplace, St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Lancaster gate hotel from the Italian Job

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

from hell - johnny depp - is set in WHITECHAPEL! obv.

― doom-e, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

errrr...errrrr....ummmm.....

― doom-e, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Westminster bridge and Big Beng from QUEEN OV THE DAMMED hooray! Also the South bank from Queen ov thee Dammed!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

'Performance'! Now, where the hell was it?

― dave q, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

wasnt that set in john peel's house?

― doom-e, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Hounslow & Southall Broadway- Bend it like Beckham

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

yes it's Hobbs End in Quartermass!! (DO YOU SEE etc) but Russell Square in Deathline.

Leicester Square tube in Ameircan Werewolf in London?

there's a terrible john wayne cop movie called McQ where he comes over here and shows us how it's done. That has stuff. (Sorry this is v.feeble...)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Performance was in one of the squares round the back of Portobello road (Chepstow square?)

Borough in Lock stock too.

Wormwood scrubs in Alfie

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Albert Square!! oh wait...

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hampstead Heath at the begining of Blow Up

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Greenwich = 'All or Nothing'.
Bermondsey = 'Last Orders'.
All of the above = 'Wonderland'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Hackney from the live TV coverage of the Olympic Games, 2007!

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Its alright MArk, Albert Square is in Borehamwood which we have proved elsewhere to be SO in London in m,ight as well be Zone One. Hence Shenley Road in Borehamwood for being the backdrop to most of the Confessions movies (Confessions Of A Pop Star in particular features Hillside School and Licourice Pizza the now sadly defunct record shop).

Tower Bridge and Borough market again from Bridget Jones' Diary. Museum Of London, Bedford Square and UCL from The Mummy Returns.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Performance types looking for Powis Square, W11.

Primrose Hill place of Midnight Barking, 101 Dalmatians.

The Magdala pub, South Hill Park, Hampstead for Dance With A Stranger.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of A Clockwork Orange was actually filmed in Aylesbury wasn't it? All the nastiest bits anyway (not surprisingly).

Ummm... the South Bank from Four Weddings?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

This Years Love also had a scene in the Food Giant at Cricklewood! (the highlight of the film if you ask me) though it is now not a Food Giant.

Liverpool st station in Mission: impossible

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

UCL and Bloombury from all of those Dirk Bogarde Doctor films.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The house where the rape happens is just outside Aylesbury I think.

Real World London house 10, Powis Terrace, Notting Hill.
Goodbye Charlie Bright - that huge estate in Peckham.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the villian from 101 dalmations had her pad and business in the city of london!

― doom-e, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete do you mean the (now defunct) North Peckham Estate?

Big Beng inside & out in "The 39 Steps".

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Fact check: Hackney from the live TV coverage of the Olympic Games, 2012!

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, I think you mean Brannigan for the Wayne movie (which also features Tony Booth, meaning Tony Blair is only two degrees of separation from the Duke).
Elephant, Soho and Selhurst Park from Wonderland.
Westminster tube station from the dreadful ER-goes-to-London episode shown last week.
The DLR in from City Airport and Westow St, SE19 from the incredibly hopeless Out Of Depth starring Sean Maguire....

― mark m, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

What? No invisible force field surrounding zone 6?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Thamesmead Estate also in Beautiful Thing.

Senate House in 1984; it's where Room 101 is.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Where exactly was All or Nothing set - I couldn't quite work it out.

And Wonderland (the best depiction of London life I've seen).

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The famous tunnel in CO also = Aylesbury.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

is everyone forgetting 'the avengers (the movie)' - they blew up big ben ferchrissakes!

― doom-e, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I think everyone would rather forget 'The Avengers (the movie)'.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I had. Until now :(

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone please, please tell me which London Park Kermit and Fozzie land in at the beginning of the Great Muppet Caper.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Senate House also in Richard III, which also features St Pancras/Grand Midland Hotel but cunningly relocated it digiatlly to the site of the houses of Parliment.

Also Batersea Power Station from same film.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Deptford from Nil By Mouth.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

it is my sole duty to remember 'the avengers (the movie)'. pity me, if you will, disdain if you must...

― doom-e, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

big ben / houses of parliament in the national lampoons european vacation and a roundabout

― james (james), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Piccadilly, near the Ritz and Green Park, also from Notting Hill.

The Embankment from Truly Madly Deeply in that shit scene with Alan Rickman hopping along.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Come back The Avengers, all is forgiven - someone just invoked the HOPPING SCENE!!!!!

Kings Cross Station, Harry Potter & The Ladykillers

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's Michael Maloney hopping along. Still shit though obv.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry - I missed JtN's post.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Bathurst Mews on the Hyde Park Estate in W2 in 'SCANDAL'!

also County Hall subbing for the Old Bailey it sez here:
http://www.madstunts.fsnet.co.uk/misc/location.htm

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The DLR in Close My Eyes.

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that Kings Cross station in the first Harry potter movie?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

yes its part of the station that leads to cambridge where i live

― james (james), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Trafalgar Square and Piccadily Cicus - American Werewolf in London.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete - completely off-topic, but is Rope also set completely in an apartment? Or are you thinking of Rear Window? I know you said that ages upthread, but, um, anyway.....

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

london zoo in American werewolf too

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Harry Potter & The Ladykillers sounds like a great film...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Rope is indeed all in one apartment, and in only two shots.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone ever made a film of Hamilton's Hangover Square? And if not why not?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

and in only two shots.

I think it's more like three. or four.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, I don't know the name of the Michael Caine film. Or the name of the weird tubular modernist estate between Swiss Cottage and Kilburn. But that estate was in the film, which I was so happy when I found, because I thought it was the coolest looking building in the entire world in the film, and it is in real life, as well. Except I can't help you either with the name of the film or the estate.

We did a photo shoot there once...

― kate, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Hangover Square (1945)
Directed by John Brahm
Bernard Herrman wrote the soundtrack!

This thread has reminded me that I badly want to see 'Absolute Beginners' again... if only for David Bowie dancing on the giant typewriter.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it's herrman's 1st s/t: russell lack's book on soundtracks singles it out for discussion

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hyde Park from 'Martha: Meet Frank, Daniel and Lawrence' - best London film ever!
Millenium Dome from whichever Bond film it featured in.
Grimy (soho?) backstreets from 'Naked'.
Camden Town from 'Withnail & I'

― DavidM (DavidM), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

St Pancras, 'The Servant'

― dave q, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought that there were more shots than that in Rope - didn't they only have ten-minute long reels in those days?

I have lived in Manor Park and East Ham so far in Lonon, and am a bit concerned that they are not yet in the new build.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Big old mansion in Hampstead (corner of the heath near Golders Hill Park) that used to be Frank Sinatra's house - A Hundred And One Dalmations. I watched them cover it with fake snow...in summertime!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

OK there might be a million takes in Rope for all I know. But it's made to look like one, by changing takes as the camera moves behind the sofa or whatever.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

10 Rillington Place - (same); street first renamed then obliterated by the Westway, I think. Also shown in that film was some riverside location (Putney?) where Christie was arrested.

Shell Centre - 'Bartleby'

Clink Street (nr. London Bridge) - 'American Werewolf in London'

Battersea Old Church and Chelsea Embankment - 'Alfie'

Regents Park (perimeter of the Zoo) - final scene in 'Withnail and I'

London Hilton Hotel - 'Frenzy'

― David (David), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I mean I think it is in 8 or 9 takes, 10 minutes to a shot.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I know you didn't mean a million.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

it is in hundreds of thousands of individual pictures, all flashed onto a screen one after the other to give illusion of continuity

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That Hitchcock was some trickster.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Revive - purely because I'm in the middle of doing Sunday Bloody Sunday at work and great chunks of Greenwich are in it.

Glenda and Murray playing with the kids in Greenwich Park, Daniel Day-Lewis making an uncredited appearance as a local teenage scruff scratching fancy cars outside St Alfege's Church, the family dog (Kenyatta!) mown down by a lorry on (possibly) Maze Hill.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The Albert Hall (again) and some other bits of Kensington form the Iprcress Files. Strangely, now all I can think of are 60's/70's films featuring Micheal Caine, Alfie, Get Carter, Italian Job etc.
I just love how London looks in old films, so free from advertising, garish street furnture and cars.

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wahey! Mr. Head is my friend Kate's dad. Which makes her uncle...the guy who plays Giles on Buffy.

That terrible Jeff Goldblum film The Fall Guy is all Camden.
Her flat in Truly Madly Deeply is in Highgate and you get Waterlow Park thrown in for nothin' too.
Up the Junction = Chelsea, Battersea and Clapham Junction.

Michael, I bet My Beautiful Launderette is SE London, but do you know where?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

First thing I thought when I saw this thread was that this rebuilt London would have several hundred Big Bens - by law it must be used in every cliched establishing shot of London Town.

You can start building Clerkenwell from Dance With A Stranger, About A Boy and A Fish Called Wanda. All three use Clerkenwell Close (the fateful murder in Dance With A Stranger is shot outside The Three Kings, even though as Suzy points out above the real pub was in Hampstead).

About A Boy uses a couple of other local locations and A Fish Called Wanda also uses Hatton Garden (as does Eyes Wide Shut, but it's disguised to look like New York).

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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