"locations in the world"", the book is a fascinating guide"" and ""great for dipping into for fun or referencing London from these locations"". She shares that locations for the 750 films covered include those for ""Blackmail"", ""A Clockwork Orange"", ""Notting Hill "", ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", ""The Day of the Jackal "", and ""The Italian Job "". Anova Books London Film Location Guide London Film Location Guide is a book written by Simon R. H. James in October 2007 covering the locations of films shot in London and first published by Batsford, an imprint of Anova Books. The author, a"
"The video of ""Come to Daddy"" by electronic musician Aphex Twin, directed by Chris Cunningham, was also shot in Thamesmead. ""The Firm"" (1989) starring Gary Oldman was filmed in Thamesmead. Thamesmead Thamesmead is a district in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and Bexley. It is located east of Charing Cross, mainly consisting of social housing built from the mid-1960s onwards on former marshland on the south bank of the River Thames, northeast of Woolwich and west of Belvedere. Most of the land area of Thamesmead previously formed about of the old Royal Arsenal site that extended over Plumstead Marshes and"
"to have changed too much since the 1920s to be used as the main film location, with conservatories added to cottages and other modern alterations. In its place another village, Sapperton, near Cirencester, was used for filming most of the outdoor scenes, with the main street gravelled to overcome the out-of-character 1990s road surface. Several other Cotswold villages and the town of Stroud were also used as locations, as was Clevedon in Somerset, while Lee's final home in Slad, Rose Cottage, became the film location for the Slad village pub. Juliet Stevenson was cast to play the pivotal character of"
"a toast snacking chef and hired, much to his disbelief. Nigel is reassured by the chef that he will make it, has him put on a chef's jacket embroidered with ""Savoy London"" and Nigel cracks a smile. The chief filming location was in Birmingham and Worcestershire with the Black Country Living Museum transformed into 1960's Wolverhampton, and in Walton Pool House in Clent. Principal sets were constructed in a disused bank on Broad St. The only inclement weather encountered during filming was at Penarth which resulted in script changes to reflect the cold wet conditions. Filming lasted from 21 June"
"flees to the barge, but Boyd is waiting for him. After a chase, Boyd is about to kill Davidson when he is shot dead by Jackson. Ilse and Davidson refuse further help from the police, leaving to deal with their pasts and futures together. The film was made at Pinewood Studios and on location in Kent around Gravesend and at Shad Thames in London. Many of the houses shown in the film were demolished soon afterwards. It was the last film of Henry Edwards, a major British star of the 1920s and 1930s, who had a small role as a"
"leading characters in clothing pre-dating the period in which the film is set in order to suggest Nicholas, as the newly anointed head of his family, wore clothing inherited from his father, and the impoverished Madeline's dresses were hand-me-downs from her mother. Locations used in the film included the abandoned 19th century Gibson Mill in Hardcastle Crags; Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire; Churchill College at the University of Cambridge; and Wilton's Music Hall, the Old Vic, and the Reform Club in London. Interiors were filmed in Elstree Studios in Borehamwood and Three Mills Studios in the East End of London."
"a well-known author. Oliver says he has had two failed marriages to Calypso lookalikes. He and Sophy find they are both single and leave the funeral together, planning to get to know each other. The house now belongs to Pauli, who plans to redevelop it and replace the camomile lawn with a swimming pool. The principal film locations were at Broom Parc House, Veryan, Cornwall, the nearby village of Portloe, and central London. The younger leading actors, Toby Stephens and Jennifer Ehle, were both playing their first screen roles. The scriptwriter, Ken Taylor, was the father of Matthew Taylor, member"
"coming to the end of a £800 million re-build. Applying for Eurostar funding had been conceived by the Mother Advertising agency. The initial idea had been to make a short film, but it developed into a feature-length script. The Mother agency approached Shane Meadows about directing the film; Meadows co-opted his regular script writer Paul Fraser and Tomboy Films produced it. Filming took place in Somers Town, an area of the London Borough of Camden south of Camden Town. The story is set immediately around Phoenix Court, a low-rise council property in Purchese Street. The film was shown at the"
"opening sequence in London on 28 August 1966, with location work beginning on 5 September 1966, primarily in Portmeirion village near Porthmadog, North Wales. This location partially inspired the show. At the request of Portmeirion's architect Clough Williams-Ellis, the main location for the series was not disclosed until the opening credits of the final episode, where it was described as ""The Hotel Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales"". Many local residents were recruited as extras. The Village setting was further augmented by the use of the backlot facilities at MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood. Additionally, filming of a key sequence of the opening"
"an imagined, happily reunited Cecilia and Robbie living on in a house by the sea. The film was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in Great Britain. These mainly were: The other places across London were Great Scotland Yard and Bethnal Green Town Hall, the latter being used for a 1939 tea-house scene, as well as the church of St John's, Smith Square, Westminster for Lola's wedding. Re-enactment of the 1940 Balham station disaster took place in the former Piccadilly line station of Aldwych, closed since the 1990s. War scenes (in the French countryside)"
"that objected to the sinister depiction of virgin birth. Colman died in May 1958—by coincidence, his widow, actress Benita Hume, married actor George Sanders in 1959, and Sanders took the role meant for Colman. The film was transferred to the MGM British Studios and shot on location in the village of Letchmore Heath, near Watford, approximately 12 miles (20 kilometres) north of London. Local buildings such as The Three Horseshoes Pub and Aldenham School were used during filming. The blonde wigs that the children wore were padded to give the impression that they had abnormally large heads. The children were"
"being run by Leeds City Council. HM Prison Leeds, formerly Armley Gaol is located in Armley. Armley housing includes Victorian back-to-back houses, through terraces and tower blocks. There is much council housing, although most of the housing stock is privately built and dates from the 1960s. Back-to-back housing has been converted to through terraces. Corporation residential tower blocks, built to replace older housing stock at the centre of Armley, and neighbouring Wortley, are amongst the tallest in Leeds. The tank scene in the 1963 film Billy Liar was filmed in Wellington Road, Armley, and local residents were used as extras."
"were members of the Royal Shakespeare Company (Waller, Howard, Church ""et al."") or stalwarts of British realist drama (Gladwin). The film was shot on location at Belvedere Power Station (now demolished) which was located on the south side of the Thames near Erith, England. Interiors were completed at Shepperton Studios near London. At the time ""Variety"" magazine compared the film thematically with Charlie Chaplin's ""Modern Times"" but was critical of its ""irritating air of improvisation"" and described the storyline as ""thin"", albeit praising some of the off-beat situations as ""very funny"". Leslie Halliwell, in his ""Film Guide"", was even more"
"the embalmed body of his wife. He drains out his own blood and replaces it with embalming fluid as the coffin's inlaid stone lid slides into place, completely concealing it. Trout and the police arrive and realise that Phibes is nowhere to be found. Trout and Vesalius recall that the ""final curse"" was darkness, and they speculate that they will encounter Phibes again. The film was shot on the ""twenties era"" sets at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire. The cemetery scenes were shot in Highgate Cemetery, London. The exterior of Dr. Phibes' mansion was Caldecote Towers at Immanuel College on Elstree"
"filmed in the grounds of Clough Williams-Ellis's Italianate Hotel Portmeirion, a resort near Penrhyndeudraeth in North Wales. Principal location shooting took place over four weeks in September 1966, with a return visit for additional, second unit-style shots for later episodes in March 1967. Sections of the resort (such as Number 6's residence interior with exterior) were replicated at MGM Borehamwood Studios in England. Later episodes were shot almost entirely on the sets on MGM's sound stages and backlot and locations within easy reach of the studio at Borehamwood, (e.g., in ""It's Your Funeral"", ""A Change of Mind"", ""Living in Harmony"","
"Thamesmead Housing Co-operative The Thamesmead Housing Co-operative was a housing estate in Thamesmead, South East London in the London Borough of Greenwich. It was a purpose built housing cooperative and like others it was an experiment in building close-knit communities and as a way of helping single people and couples. It was dissolved in the 1990s and taken over by Hyde Housing Association (now The Hyde Group). Thamesmead Housing Co-operative was established to address the lack of housing for vulnerable single people in the area. Applicants to live on the CO-op were interviewed in order to establish their housing needs"
"fifth in October 2013. The show is filmed in south east London, mostly on location around the Southmere Lake in Thamesmead, including the signature shot of the four multi-storey buildings from the roof of the Lakeside Centre and Bexley College. The scenes under the flyover used the M4 at Boston Manor Park, Brentford. Many interiors were filmed in sets built in the old Runnymede campus of Brunel University. The first series was accompanied by an online viral marketing, on social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter. For example, in a British first, the characters Simon and Kelly tweeted during"
"was later confirmed by 2050 Films, with the announcement of a vigorous Kickstarter campaign which saw the production raise £5000 through months of extensive promotion and marketing, before work on the film had even begun. After auditions held in Brighton, the lead cast were decided and confirmed, with McNab and Chittenden joining later on. Principal photography began in late August, 2014 in both Henfield and around the East Sussex area. It was shot using Canon C300 cameras provided by Ravensbourne University in London, of which members of the crew attend. A sneak peek teaser was released on Christmas Day, 2014"
"which had a sort of wide-screen look. However, in 1965 colour film stock was still rather grainy, which showed when the final picture was blown up for the large cinema screen. Miles also said the leading lady fell pregnant before shooting started; he replaced her with Suzy Kendall (making her film debut). The film was shot at MGM's London studios at Boreham Wood, with exteriors at Gravesend Docks, St. Paul's Cathedral, Hyde Park, the Albert Memorial and Elstree town. Miles later reflected: It was a baptism of fire but it taught me a lot about making a feature. It taught"
"shot on super 8 at Jarman's iconic Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent, and other scenes were shot in SoHo and on the Hampstead Heath in London. The film has been described as a ""stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of legendary painter, filmmaker, and activist Derek Jarman's artistic, sexual, and political awakening in post-War England."" It had its world premiere at the 2009 Reykjavik International Film Festival in Iceland, its UK premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London, and its California premiere at the 2010 Frameline International Film Festival in San Francisco. It won the Eastman Kodak Grand Prize for"
"the location of scenes. However, due to the security risks involved with filming such a location, London's Freemasons' Hall was used for scenes where actors were entering or leaving the building, and for some internal locations. This same location was later used as Thames House in """". Establishing shots of the SIS Building were also used for scenes involving members of the Secret Intelligence Service or MI6. Other landmarks commonly used included the London Underground, and the Millennium Bridge. Many scenes are filmed in and around the Docklands, especially Canary Wharf, Rotherhithe, London Bridge and Greenwich (including The Old Royal"
"his role was ""not a big part but it's the best I've ever had."" The supporting cast features a young Kenneth More. A significant proportion of the action in the middle of the film was shot on location in Newcastle upon Tyne, featuring scenes on the quayside, the area around the Castle Keep and the Central Station, and the suburb of Jesmond. Some scenes were filmed in Liverpool's China Town, Toxteth, Liverpool Docks and on the Liverpool Overhead Railway. The railway closed in 1956 and was later dismantled. The movie benefited from publicity arising out of Jean Simmons' engagement and"
"that survived the apartheid regime's forced removals of non-whites from the area to make way for white resettlement. Philemon and Matilda’s house and the shebeen scenes were shot at the St. Joseph’s Diocesan Centre. The church scenes were filmed at the Anglican Church of Christ the King in Ray Street. The writer Can Themba actually lived in a bachelor's flat in Ray Street, at Number 111, near the church. The exterior street scenes were shot at the Eeufeesoord Retirement Village. The bus scenes were shot on a period double-decker bus that actually drove the Sophiatown route in the 1950s, supplied"
"film, which is adapted from Christianna Brand's ""Nurse Matilda"" books. A sequel, ""Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang"" was released in 2010. The filming location is Penn House Estate, Penn Street, Buckinghamshire, England. In Victorian England in the 1860s, widowed undertaker Cedric Brown has seven unruly children. He is clumsy and loves his children, but since the death of his wife, has spent little time with them and cannot handle them. The children have had a series of nannies, whom they have systematically driven out by their bad behaviour. They also take great pleasure in terrorizing their cook, Mrs. Blatherwick."
"throughout filming, was unsure of Newell's direction and his own performance, which he thought was ""atrocious""; on Newell he commented that: ""He seemed to be giving direction against what I thought were the natural beats of the comedy. He was making a film with texture, grounding it, playing the truths rather than the gags.” The film was shot mainly in London and the Home Counties, including Hampstead, Islington where the final moments take place on Highbury Terrace, Greenwich Hospital, Betchworth in Surrey, Amersham in Buckinghamshire, St Bartholomew-the-Great (wedding number four) and West Thurrock in Essex. Exterior shots of guests arriving"
"a hotel room in Wales, suffering from amnesia. He has no recollection of who he is or where he comes from. With the help of mental specialist Doctor Llewellyn (Cecil Parker), he manages to trace himself back to his wife and home in London, but soon discovers that she is just one of his many wives in his many homes all over the country. The film was made in Shepperton Studios, with shooting finished in early June 1954, just a week after the studio's owner and the film's intended distributor, British Lion Film Corporation, went into receivership on 1 June"
"the city. Production then moved to the Worton Hall Studios in Isleworth and Shepperton Studios near London and was completed in March 1949. The scenes of Harry Lime in the sewer were shot on location or on sets built at Shepperton; most of the location shots used doubles for Welles. However, Reed claimed that, despite initial reluctance, Welles quickly became enthusiastic, and stayed in Vienna to finish the film. The crew sprayed water on the cobbled streets to make them reflect light at night. According to the recollection of assistant director Guy Hamilton, interviewed in 2015, Greene and Reed worked"
"the leeway to improvise some of their scenes. Hopkins complied, and several of Harvey and Kate's conversations were ad-libbed while keeping within the dictates of the plot. London locations seen in the film include Willesden Green, Belsize Park, Green Park, Maida Vale, the Millennium Dome on the Greenwich peninsula, the east Golden Jubilee Bridge, the Royal National Theatre at Southbank Centre, Paddington station, Somerset House, St. John's Wood, Waterloo Bridge, and Heathrow Airport in Middlesex. The film received mainly positive reviews and has a 71% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 153 reviews with an average rating of 6.2"
"destination, hoping additional survivors see their plane and join them. Harry Spalding says the someone said the title ""as a joke"" and ""somehow it kind of stuck"" and he always hated the title. The film was shot in black and white at Shepperton Studios in London. Location filming was done at the village of Shere in Surrey. It was one of several 1960s British horror films to be scored by the avant-garde Elisabeth Lutyens, whose father, Edwin Lutyens, designed Manor House Lodge in Shere, a small property which features prominently at several points in the film. Wheeler Winston Dixon wrote"
"film, ""Spectre"", took place on the Thames near Vauxhall Cross in May 2015. SIS Building The SIS Building or MI6 Building at Vauxhall Cross houses the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6), the United Kingdom's foreign intelligence agency. It is located at 85 Albert Embankment in Vauxhall, a south western part of central London, on the bank of the River Thames beside Vauxhall Bridge. The building has been the headquarters of the SIS since 1994. The SIS had previously been based at Century House, a 22-storey office block on Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, near Lambeth North and Waterloo"
"2015, Patrick Dempsey joined the cast of the film. Filming for a short period began in July 2015 in Dublin, where the first scenes for the film were shot at Ed Sheeran's concert at Croke Park. Official principal photography with the actual cast began on 2 October 2015 in London. The Television Studio interior scenes, the Hospital Ward interiors and various other scenes were shot on Stages 5 and 6 at West London Film Studios. On 13 October 2015, shooting was taking place at Borough Market, and later in October in Windsor Great Park, at Rosy Bottom. According to the"
"as we grew older and grew up, my family, like so many other families, broke apart. I also lost so many of my Hellenic roots. In making the film I reached out to that sense of family that had been lost and I reached out to my Hellenic roots. [The film] is not about being Greek or Cypriot at all. I use that as backdrop. It really is about family unity at a difficult time"". The film was shot in the London area. The crew found a street with two empty shops in Morden, South London, and took the lease"
"that the passage of time would appear believable. The location used for Tom and Gerri Hepple's house is St Margaret's Road, Wanstead, East London. The film was well received by critics. According to review aggregation website, Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 8.2 out of 10 from 154 reviews. The film debuted at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme d'Or and although it failed to receive any prizes, it was highly praised by critics, scoring a 3.4/4 average at Screen International's annual Cannes Jury Grid,"