Just cycled past Shipley Windmill*, best known as the home of Jonathan Creek.
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I lived in Minneapolis in the mid-90s and saw a few scenes of “Jingle All The Way” being filmed. I LIVED on Nicollet Ave, just south of Nicollet Mall where the parade was filmed and I happened to be at Mall of America when they were filming those scenes. They also filmed in St. Paul and I rode a bus past the library there, which was covered in fake snow for the shooting of the movie. It’s amazing how much less convincing fake snow is when you’re looking at it live rather than on a movie screen.
Oh that reminded me. In the movie Assassin (a Stallone flick) there is a funeral cemetery scene that iirc was supposed to be on the east coast. It was actually filmed in Everett, WA. I knew that bebore going into the movie though, as news of the filming was in the local paper.
The infamous scene in question has them start at their house on the west side of Lake Union, right under Queen Anne Hill. They end up at at Alki Beach. Which is quite a paddle: through locks and down the Sound. All the while Meg Ryan somehow keeping up with them. In order to keep track of them visually the whole way would have required some really non-direct driving. Really tough for an out-of-towner.
So quite a lot of geographic “What the fudge?” stuff going on the whole way.
My wife actually works at the Old Royal Naval College - film crews are onsite (either outside or in the Painted Hall) several times a year. She’s even met Johnny Depp (very briefly) during the Pirates shoot.
Yeah, that reminds me of the set from Frazier, where his apartment view of Seattle would have been impossible.
One of the things I liked about visiting Seattle was seeing locations that were in a short film from MST3K. Specifically, the fountains from the '62 World’s Fair that featured in “Century 21 Calling” are still there and I waited next to them to get into the Pompeii exhibit at the Pacific Science Center. Sometimes my job requires me to sit in the same courtroom where Sean Connery and Denzel Washington sat for “Just Cause.” And every work day I walk around the downtown locations used in “Day of the Dead.”
As mentioned above, the view I (and Wikipedia) remember from the show is the one from Kerry Park. A bit further NW of his apartment building but not too far off.
Another Seattle “impossible”. Grey’s Anatomy in the early years would sometimes show an aerial shot that included the Kingdome. The show debuted in 2005 and the dome was demolished in 2000. (And, no, the show wasn’t set in the past.) Plus the hospital was basically in the shadow of the Space Needle in some shots but had no nearby tall buildings at all in others. It’s like those other shots were done somewhere N. of LA. 
I visited well after I saw the original Star Wars movie, but I have visited Tikal in Guatemala which was used for some of the shots on Yavin IV. Climbed Temple 4 where this scene was shot.
Also well after the fact: Doune Castle in Scotland, where much of Monty Python and the Holy Grail was filmed.
I used to drive over the same bridge to and from work.
While not a movie… there was an grocery store I passed by on the way home from work. I would shop there if I needed to pick up an item or two. It was where the filmed the supermarket scene in the video for the song for the video for The Streak.
The Mothman Prophesies was filmed in Pittsburgh and Kittanning, PA. The bridge that is a big part of the movie is a bridge in Kittanning that I pontoon under all summer.
ETA: at the time of the filming, I had an employee who was a huge Richard Geere fan. I rigged a practical joke that very believably made it appear that Mr Geere wanted to meet with me at work, and I turned down his request because I had other plans. She freaked out, the joke went too far, but it was fucking hilarious.
I was there! I was very amused at the vultures casually lurking at the bottom of the temple by the ladders.
I’ve been to Sabino Canyon here in Tucson where part of The Three Amigos was filmed.
Five-0 will be back Monday and Tuesday. Filming in the lobby of our three-building condo complex, then inside one of the units (not ours) and the carpark. We’ve been told there will be simulated gunfire, so don’t panic. I’ve heard it will be an abduction scene. The scenes will air on the October 18 show, so be watching that night if you want to see where Siam Sam lives.
Almost forgot: I was walking down Saville Row about six weeks ago and noticed that the tailor shop from the Kingsman series has kept the “Kingsman” sign outside on one side of the shop, with the real name (I forget at the moment what it is) on the other side.
And speaking of Greenwich and the Old Royal Naval College (as I was earlier), the wedding scene at the end of the second Kingsman film was filmed in the ORNC chapel, which is right across from the Painted Hall. My daughter was baptised there (not during the filming, obvs).
A fair number of locations in Theatre of Blood" were in the streets roundabout my childhood home in Putney (London) and I was distantly acquainted with the people who lived in one of them. The climactic scene took place on the old Hippodrome cinema just before it was demolished.
Vague memories from the John Grisham movie The Firm came floating back to me as I visited the pool area of the Hyatt hotel in Grand Cayman. Only later did I learn that scenes from the movie had been filmed there.
I recognized the underwater locales from a Penn and Teller special Off the Deep End, parts of which were filmed off Grand Cayman’s western shore. I know where they filmed the underwater saw-a-girl-in-half trick. And I was there as they filmed parts of the make-a-submarine-disappear trick, though I’m not sure if footage of me made it in the final cut.
And i visited the film set of the village from the Robin Williams movie Popeyewhich is still a tourist attraction in Anchor Bay, Malta.
Many films are set in and around Harvard, although very few are allowed to actually film on campus so most shots are of elsewhere. The area around Harvard Square has been used in lots of films, so those are pretty common. The house that Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw live in is just off campus on Oxford St, I walk past it all the time.
I live near Sacramento, so I have been to many of the locations used in Lady Bird:
-The “blue house”
-The convenience store where Lady Bird buys cigarettes and porn on her 18th birthday
-Terminal A of the Sacramento International Airport
-The walkway along the riverfront where Lady Bird and Julie go after prom
-The J Street Bridge (seen in the montage where her mom is driving home from work)
-The Jibboom Street Bridge and The Pasty Shack (seen in the montage where Lady Bird is driving around Sacramento)
-The Tower Theater, Club Raven, and the Crest Theater (seen in the montage of neon signs). In fact I saw the movie at the Tower Theater.
I’ve also been to The Breakaways, near Coober Pedy, South Australia, which was used in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome, among others. Apparently it’s a favorite spot for directors looking for a forbidding looking desert landscape.
When I was a kid some made for TV movie used our town’s Main Street as a filming location, but I couldn’t tell you what it was called nor did I actually see the movie.
A few that have been previously mentioned: I have also been to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium where parts of Star Trek IV were filmed, and Katz’s Deli in New York where Meg Ryan faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally.
Speaking of New York Delis, I’ve been to the Carnegie Deli as well, where Woody Allen shot a scene for one of his moves (I don’t know which one off the top of my head).
I was watching ***The End of the Universe ***on TVO last night. At one point, Jim Al-Khalili went inside the control room of the Jodrell Bank radio telescope.
I was there in July 1976 as the guest of a pen-pal’s pen-pal’s next door neighbor, who was an astrophysicist. I really hit the jackpot with this one!
Of course, the room bore almost no resemblance to the one I saw 43 years ago. The most sophisticated readout back then was a scrolling printer that traced the outlines of radio sources in ink, like an old-fashioned rotating seismometer recording vibrations.
I just saw Public Enemies this weekend because I wanted to see the filming locations. Namely, the Portage Theater is just up the street from where I live. There are other locations that are actually where the story actually took place in Chicago, so that was pretty cool to see.