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March 21, 2013 By iluvcinema 10 Comments

The Underground on Film

Last night, I dreamt I was in London again …

Actually I was talking about traveling with a friend of mine and started to reminisce about my lovely times in Londontown. That led me to this topic – a look at the London Underground from the world of cinema.

The Tube/The Underground – whatever you call it (just don’t call it a SUBWAY), is an attraction unto itself for visitors to the English capital city. It has also been the setting for many an interesting films and pivotal scenes in those films. Here is a cool map that conveys this very message. For a larger view of the map, click here.

underrgound film map

In my continued admiration for the U.K. capital city and in honor of  the 150th anniversary of the London Underground system, I have gathered a few of my favorite cinematic scenes from The Underground:

 

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE (1997): couldn’t find the actual clip but there is a snippet of the scene in the trailer. If you do happen to watch the pivotal scene starts with the opening title sequence.

 

V FOR VENDETTA (2005)

 

SLIDING DOORS (1998): this sequence sets the stage for the rest of the film

 

ATONEMENT (2007): this is just the trailer; if I showed you the scene, it would give away a major plot point.

 

SKYFALL (2012): What’s NOT to like? This clip is the culmination of a great underground chase sequence, mind you – but I decided to add it anyway because it DOES include an Underground train 🙂

In related news, earlier this year, the BFI (British Film Institute) took a retrospective look at some great (British-made) films that featured the underground system .

Let me conclude my post by sharing another take on the London Transport system as depicted in the cinema, courtesy of fellow blogger and Anglophile – Ruth @ Flixchatter!

 

For MORE Tube-related Trivia …

Read 150 fun facts about “The Tube” (Source: Telegraph.co.uk).

Filed Under: On Location Tagged With: 150 anniversary, london, london transport, the tube, the underground

October 19, 2012 By iluvcinema 2 Comments

Happy Friday Everyone!

Happy Friday Everyone!

The countdown begins … one week from now, I will have just finished Skyfall in London!

As you can imagine, plans for my (now annual) forthcoming hop across the pond got me thinking about creative travel related tie-ins that have not been previously posted in my 5 years in the blogosphere.

Well I found a new one – courtesy of the Londontown website. This go-around, I am staying in a hotel in central London – which got me thinking … how many hotels have been featured in famous movies? I am not saying that this list, London Hotels in Films is the most comprehensive, but I think that it is a fun piece of trivia for folks (like myself) who are into that sort of thing.

As for this weekend and going to the movies in particular, it looks like another weekend for me to continue the seemingly never-ending DVR-catchup/Netflix Game. Perhaps, in honor of [WARNING: DOWNTON SPOILER]

Spoiler Inside SelectShow
the dearly departed Lady Sybil Crawley (Jessica Brown Findlay), I will finally finish a film co-starring her and Felicity Jones, Albatross.

 

How about you? Any  movie-related plans …

 

Alex Cross

 

Paranormal 4

 

Holy Motors
(word is that this one is a bizarre gem of a film)

 

The Sessions


Comment below and have a lovely weekend!


Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: london, skyfall, weekend viewing

June 27, 2011 By iluvcinema Leave a Comment

National Portrait Gallery Exhibition

If you happen to be in London in the near future, may I recommend you check out The National Gallery; the gallery’s exhibit,  Glamour of the Gods:Hollywood Portraits (http://www.npg.org.uk/glamour/) is running from 7 July – 23 October and will feature 70 photographs from stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age (1920-1960).

The exhibit features photographs from the John Kobal Foundation archive and produced in association with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

 

 

 

Filed Under: Fun Stuff, Recommendation Tagged With: hollywood, london, mgm, national portrait gallery, photo exhibit

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