Collateral Map
Yesterday morning Rope of Silicon‘s Brad Brevet posted a Collateral location map with assistance provided by Movie Locations and Seeing Stars. It reminded me of the one absolute rule when it comes to Los Angeles film locations — if at all possible, never shoot west of Highland or north of Playa del Rey. But the Valley is okay.
What was the last genuinely cool film that was mostly shot on the west side? The Long Goodbye? Plenty of ’80s, ’90s and aught films surely qualify.
SOB comes to mind.
Point Break.
Not the coolest movie in the world, but “Friends with Money” did a pretty good job of capturing the west side.
Venice: WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP. And wasn’t COMING HOME mostly shot around Venice? And it may not be cool, but a lot of Lawrence Kasden’s GRAND CANYON was shot around Santa Monica and has a west side flavor to the well-to-do folks scenes to contrast with the not so well-to-do South Central and Inglewood scenes.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is the other great LA movie of the 2000s. But I think most of it does conform with Jeffrey’s shooting restrictions.
Certainly AMERICAN GIGOLO is an invaluable time capsule of Westwood circa 1979.
Why wouldn’t you shoot west of Highland? Are you referring to Highland Ave?
Heat is a much better L.A. movie than Collateral.
Point Break and Grand Canyon are great L.A. movies as well.
Um, “Point Blank” anyone?
Also, it’s a chore to get through but Jaques Demy’s “Model Shop” has some amazing west-of-Highland locations of a long, long gone Los Angeles circa 1969.
The Doors?
Wasn’t Big Lebowski set in Venice/Marina Del Rey?
The Big Lebowski? Really more of an all over LA flick but The Dude’s pad is in theory in Venice.
Where did Fletch live? I feel like he was on the Westside somewhere too.
Now when it comes to TV, Curb Your Enthusiasm is the current Westside location champ.
I’ve sat through “Model Shop” twice just to see the cool 60′s footage of Hollywood.
West of Highland is the west side? Gracious. I’d have put the line closer to La Cienega. But then, I seldom venture east of the 405…
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