Originally Posted by
Filmmaker78
Scott,
I was going to email you my list, but posting it here might foster even more discussion. Leaving out the obvious (Lebowski, L.A. Conf., Swingers, Pretty Woman, Sunset Blvd. -- BTW the Sunset Blvd DVD has a map built into the special features that shows where stuff is -- also MovieLocationsGuide.com):
- Heat (especially the big shootout scene - you might also point out the location of the North Hollywood Shootout that inspired it, if your tour takes you that far north)
- Back to the Future (numerous locations, maybe even Doc Brown's house if you get out that far - it's a museum now and considered one of the finest examples of craftsman style homes still standing today)
- Chinatown
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (maybe too obscure, but they shot all over LA and I specifically remember the front door of the Formosa Cafe).
- Chaplin (and they take the "old" Chapman in the film back to Chaplin Studios at the end and filmed in front of the real studio on La Brea)
- L.A. Story
- Reservoir Dogs (I know you already have Pulp Fiction) - they used the Johnie's Coffee Shop on Wilshire, etc.
- True Romance (they stay at the Safari Inn, where Patricia Arquette gets the hell beat out of her by Tony Soprano, which is on Olive in Burbank)
- Like Tarantino, pretty much anything by PT Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love), although he tends to favor shooting in the Valley