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Post by chiqui on Oct 18, 2010 23:29:25 GMT -4
I love watching A Clockwork Orange just for the sets. It takes me back to England in the early 1970s. Yes a lot of it was really like that. Same thing happens with Monty Python and Gerry Anderson's UFO TV series.
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Post by satellite on Oct 19, 2010 14:03:36 GMT -4
I love design in general, but I'm a big fan of modern and contemporary architecture (anything Bauhaus-influenced, post Bauhaus) and it's always bugged me that there's this trope that contemporary decor is shorthand for the bad guy, or emotional coldness, or unhappy childless rich people, unless the main character is an architect and he (rarely she) built the place.
Like in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle as mentioned above, when finally we see Peyton's house it's the typical stark white modernist "bad guy" house. In the movie The Glass House, same thing. American Psycho of course.
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Post by Daisy Pusher on Oct 19, 2010 14:17:04 GMT -4
I absolutely love Mimi Rogers' character's apartment in Someone to Watch Over Me.
There is a godawful 60s flick called Secret Ceremony with Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow. The sole redeeming quality of the film--and the one reason I've watched it multiple times--is the stunning authentic Art Nouveau mansion that Farrow's creepy charater lives in. To. Die. For. Worth a viewing for the house at least.
Incidentally, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle house is only few blocks away from where I used to live. It really is a lovely house and the greenhouse is still there. And Stadium High School (Verona HS of 10 Things I Hate About You) is in the same neighborhood. Cool building , altthough it has changed a lot since the film. The courtyard pretty much got swallowed up by a new building containing a new gym and auditorium (which blocks the view of the school you used to get as you drove past), and they also built a parking garage which is hideous, as parking garages typically are. The new buildings have no architectural spiritual connection whatsoever to the old castle so it's somewhat jarring.
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Post by WitchyPoo on Oct 23, 2010 2:15:38 GMT -4
Colin Firth's house[/color] in A Single Man is beautiful. I found myself having to re-watch certain scenes because I was distracted. |
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Post by kanding on Oct 23, 2010 4:28:38 GMT -4
Oh, yes! That was another good one! Thanks for the link! Now I can focus my full attention on the house without that pesky story gettting in the way!
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Oct 23, 2010 18:52:22 GMT -4
My dream is to live in Tom Hanks' huge NYC loft from Big. Of course the trampoline, pinball machine, and bunk bed have to come with it.
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Post by Atreides on Oct 23, 2010 21:30:37 GMT -4
Ooh, that reminds me of the apartment in Three Men and a Baby. That place was gigantic! There was that one scene where the baby went missing and the three guys tore through the house trying to find her and it was just big room after big room after big room. What a dream apartment!
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Post by Martini Girl on Oct 25, 2010 18:54:11 GMT -4
My favorite interior will always be from Auntie Mame. I loved what she did to her apartment on Beekman Place! (Specially when the Upson's swung by). Divine.  |
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Post by ikmccall on Oct 25, 2010 20:44:11 GMT -4
Ooh, that reminds me of the apartment in Three Men and a Baby. That place was gigantic! There was that one scene where the baby went missing and the three guys tore through the house trying to find her and it was just big room after big room after big room. What a dream apartment! I imagined that's what the apartments in the Dakota are like. |
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Post by bklynred on Oct 26, 2010 9:48:19 GMT -4
Dickie Greenleaf's haunts definitely triggered my Italy switch. Gorgeous.
ETA: I unexpectedly wound up in one of those huge house-like apartments on the UWS when I was about 20 or so...it was ridiculously intimidating. Most people get by on sooo much less.
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