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Interiors from the film Tommy, 1975
Ann Margret as Nora Walker Hobbs in Ken Russell’s 1975 film “Tommy.” This scene, not to mention the whole film, was absolutely formative for me (and apparently I’m not alone). It opens with a drunk...
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Architecture in the movies, part 1.
This list, inspired by an interesting thread on pushpullbar, is a small selection of great modern buildings that have appeared in 20th C film. Above, Charles Deaton’s Sculpture House, which appeared...
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Architecture in the movies, part 2.
I’m not sure where the strange compulsion to assemble this inventory comes from but it’s hard to stop, especially when people start adding their suggestions to the list. The house above was suggested...
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Architecture in the Movies, Part 3 – Logan’s Run
The 1976 film Logan’s Run, a dark sci-fi dystopia about escape from a domed post-apocalyptic society that euthanizes its citizens at age 30, completely occupied my late childhood imagination. The...
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Architecture in the movies, Part 5 – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, has probably appeared in more Hollywood films than any other notable modern house and has also been heavily used for ad and fashion shoots,...
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Malcolm
Malcolm is an Australian film released in 1986. I’ve been thinking about it for years. Maybe it automatically rates because it is full of homemade Rube Goldberg machines and nerd contraptions, because...
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Bobby Deerfield, 1977
Proof that the 70s and 80s meet in 1977. In the Hollywood film Bobby Deerfield, Al Pacino plays a troubled race-car driver who leaves his girlfriend, a weaving artist, for a dying European jetsetter...
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“Suits weren’t more stylish then, there’s just less stylish people now”
I love Alan Price who, among other things, was the founder of The Animals in 1962. He wrote the soundtrack for Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 film O Lucky Man! with Malcolm McDowell. The film was a political...
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller by Robert Altman: shot in Vancouver, soundtrack by...
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, released in 1971, was one of Robert Altman’s earliest feature films (after M*A*S*H*, That Cold Day in the Park, and Brewster McCloud). It’s largely considered the first...
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Our Man Flint, 1966
Screenshots from Our Man Flint (1966) from architectural site Pushpullbar. Our Man Flint was a James Bond parody starring James Coburn. Not sure if my current trip through 1960s irreverence and...
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