The
Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations: The Essential Travel Guide
Book to Film Locations
The
author
Tony Reeves is a lifelong movie fan, and the original Worldwide
Guide to Movie Locations was the culmination of
eight years research – watching films, videos and, later,
DVDs, as well as trawling through endless magazines, studio
presspacks and film ephemera, and travelling the globe to
seek out those favourite movie backdrops.
“There's a terrific buzz finding yourself in one of the
classic screen locations: Luke Skywalker's home from Star
Wars (the Sidi Driss Hotel in Matmata, Tunisia);
Amity Island, from Jaws
(Martha's Vineyard is Amity island – it's a conservation
area and in 30 years it hasn't changed a bit) or the 'Hadleyville'
church where Gary Cooper
appeals for help in High
Noon (in a tiny village up in northern California).
And then there are the smaller, more personal pleasures: lunch
in theBagdad Cafe,
or struggling to resist breaking into a tango by the vegetable
stall in the supermarket from Doug Liman'sGo.
Tops would have to be Bodega Bay, fromThe
Birds. I hadn't planned to stay there but I was making
up time on the northern California
trip. By chance, it was also Oscar night and the kindly woman
who ran the hotel gave me an upgrade to a room with a view.
A fridge full of Bud, the Oscars live on TV and a balcony
overlooking Bodega Bay are about as close to movie heaven
as I'm likely to get.
