Obscure Film Locations You've Been to

Blue Mist said:
Various towns in Sicily where Inspector Monallbano was filmed including Scicli. The town hall is used as the police station and just a few Doors down is the police headquarters.
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A few locations in Ragusa too. As a fan of Italian crime books and TV I've been chucked out of more than one questura when it's become obvious I have no business to conduct and have just come to see if it matches a book. Have never tried it on with the Carabinieri though as I suspect their tolerance for dickheads is limited.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
I went to the park where the gang meeting at the beginning of The Warriors took place - it’s not in the Bronx as described in the film, but on upper west in Manhattan.

Also been to the Griffith observatory high up in the Hollywood Hills used in a few films such as James Dean’s Rebels Without A Cause and Charlie’s Angels.
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I think one of the issues with filming The Warriors was when they went to the most authentic places they got grief from real life gangs! So they ended up using places like Riverside as it was just a bit easier to shoot there.
 
Maybe not that obscure, but...

Years ago, in about 2010, I was on the way home from a camping trip in Cornwall with my parents. On the way back we decided to stop in Wells in Somerset because, as my parents said, they'd never visited the place before and wanted to have a look around. Anyway, we parked up at the cathedral and got out of the car for a look around. We were walking down Market Place in the middle of the town, heading south, and I had this really eerie feeling that I'd actually been to Wells before. I started asking my parents if we'd ever been on holiday when I was really small and they'd just forgotten about it, but they both repeatedly insisted we'd never been. We went in a café on the main stretch near the cathedral and grabbed some lunch, and all this time I was trying as hard as I could to remember bits of my life when I might have somehow ended up in Wells without my mum and dad. I couldn't think of anything and it was driving me mad, to the point where I honestly barely ate the sandwich I'd asked for. We left the café and started to head back to the car, heading northwards up Market Place and back towards the cathedral. And then it hit me that I was standing on the actual set of Hot Fuzz, and that they'd used Wells for the fictional Sandford village in the film. I'd watched the film so many times that, when inadvertently standing on the set, I started to believe I'd actually been there. When it clicked I started laughing out loud because I'd literally watched Hot Fuzz (for the 10th time) on the camping holiday we were coming home from, on a shitty little portable DVD player we had in the tent.

I've got a couple of other stories but that's absolutely the best one.
 
Komiza, Vis Island...Mama Mia 2
Westin Grande, Ostbahnhof, Templehof Airport, Alexanderplatz, Berlin...Bourne
Jan Van Eyckplein, ‘t Zwart Huis, Bruges....In Bruges

TV
The KIngs Arms/Drovers, Askrigg...All Creatures Great & Small
The Goathland Hotel/Aidensfield Arms, Goathland..Heartbeat
The petrol station used in an episode of the Derry Girls....a diner on the A6 just outside Toome
Dark Hedges/Ballintoy harbour...GoT
 
I went to Dubrovnik and they wouldn't stop banging on about Game of Thrones. Half of it was CGI by the time it hit the screens anyway. Here's a set of stairs from some conversation scene. So iconic that they had to have a folder of stills to remind you.

Also Carnforth Station, who've been milking Brief Encounter since 1945.

Angkor Wat being intensely proud that Tomb Raider was shot there, as if it wasn't magnificent enough in its own right.
 
philfodenswristsock said:
Wasn't Yanks in Dobcross?

I'd love to visit 'Quadrophenia Alley'
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The film Yanks (1979) used Stalybridge as a primary filming location, with the opening scene featuring American trucks crossing the Victoria Bridge and passing the War Memorial on Trinity Street, as well as Market Street and the old Town Hall. The false-fronted buildings on Market Street were made to look like a World War II-era street.

Market st Stalybridge, the lovely town Hall in the background now demolished by the wonderful Tameside council.

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Twin towers, went to the top star of many films
 

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In 1977 I stayed at The Old Swan hotel in Harrogate for a work convention. The filming of "Agatha" was in production. It detailed the story of Agatha Christie's retreat to the hotel, under a false name, in the 1920s owing to a breakdown caused by marital and mental problems. Her apparent disappearance attracted great public interest. Vanessa Redgrave played the title role and Dustin Hoffman the detective hired to trace her. I enjoyed a breakfast sitting very near to Hoffman who was quite happy to discuss his films including The Graduate. Midnight Cowboy and Papillon. Redgrave, however, was a stuck up bitch.
 
Lay down in the back of the land rover you see 12 seconds in to this trailer. Think we were out near Blackburn if I can remember correctly

 
Once went on a field trip to Newcastle for a week and one day we visited Easington, the location for the final scene in 'Get Carter'. It was a freezing cold day in April and bleak doesn't even begin to describe this former mining community whose heart had been ripped out with the closure of the nearby mines a few years earlier. Very evocative and felt like it hadn't changed since the film had been shot there 15 years before.
 
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