spiderwort
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 22, 2017 0:18:16 GMT
Or at least films that you feel are set in New England. A few of my favorites:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Massachusetts Dead Poet's Society (1989) - Vermont Little Women (1994) - Concord, Massachusetts The Whales of August (1987) - Maine Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - Connecticut White Christmas (1954) - Vermont A Summer Place (1959) - Maine Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) - Connecticut The World According to Garp (1982) - New Hampshire
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Post by politicidal on Oct 22, 2017 1:02:04 GMT
Jaws (1975) - Massachusetts
Amistad (1997) - Connecticut/Massachusetts
National Treasure (2004) - Massachusetts
The Trouble with Harry (1955) - Vermont
The Departed (2006) - Massachusetts
Clue (1985) - not specified
Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Connecticut
The Conjuring (2013) - Connecticut/Rhode Island
The Iron Giant (1999) - Maine
Jumanji (1995) - New Hampshire
The Town (2010) - Massachusetts
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Post by kijii on Oct 22, 2017 1:06:29 GMT
Spider-- I think you are looking for Rhode Island: High Society was set in Newport, Rhode Island--even though The Philadelphia Story from which it was re-made is not....... Reversal of Fortune (1990) was a true story set in Rhode Island and Irrational Man (2015) was set in Newport too. The Witches of Eastwick (1987) is set in Rhode Island also.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 22, 2017 1:14:57 GMT
On Golden Pond
The Paper Chase
The Crucible
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (parts only!)
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Oct 22, 2017 1:18:53 GMT
Yes, I love New England settings in film (also a bit partial to them, as I was stationed off and on in the State of Maine while in the service).
The Whales of August (1987), with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish and Vincent Price, is a personal favorite. Filmed mostly if not entirely in Maine, it really depicts the coastal New England environment quite nicely.
I also like the Jesse Stone made-for-TV movies (with Tom Selleck) which are supposed to be set in Maine, but are actually filmed in coastal Nova Scotia.
Dolores Claiborne (1995), like the Jesse Stone movies, was supposed to be set in Maine, but is filmed in Nova Scotia. Still looks wonderful, though.
In the Bedroom (2001), with Sissy Spacek, is nicely filmed in Maine.
The Cider House Rules (1999), with Michael Caine, is nicely filmed in various New England locales, including Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts.
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Post by mattgarth on Oct 22, 2017 2:24:24 GMT
New Hampshire:
ON GOLDEN POND PEYTON PLACE
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Post by outrider127 on Oct 22, 2017 3:47:25 GMT
Or at least that you feel are set in New England. A few of mine: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Massachusetts Dead Poet's Society (1989) - Vermont Little Women (1994) - Concord, Massachusetts Mystic River (2003) - Boston, Mass. Holiday Inn (1942) - Connecticut Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - Connecticut White Christmas (1954) - Vermont A Summer Place (1959) - Maine Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) - Connecticut The World According to Garp (1982) - New Hampshire Baby Boom(1987) The Trouble With Harry(1955) Those Callaways!(1965) with Brian Kieth All three films filmed in the Fall
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 22, 2017 3:47:26 GMT
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Return to Peyton Place also took place in New England.
Parts of The Perfect Storm and Moby Dick.
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Post by jervistetch on Oct 22, 2017 5:00:16 GMT
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! - Massachusetts
politicidal, I always thought JAWS was set on Long Island.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Oct 22, 2017 5:10:40 GMT
Shutter Island (2010), largely filmed in Massachusetts
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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2017 5:35:48 GMT
"You know I think of myself as more of a New England writer than I do as an American writer only because that’s also how I think of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. I think of them as being New England writers. That’s who they are to me. But at the same time I say that, I don’t think I fit the profile of the so-called “American” writer and never have. My first novel, Setting Free The Bears, was a historical novel about two Austrian students that was largely about the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Vienna. There wasn’t an American in it. It goes all the way back to the interest I had in literature that made me want to be a writer in the first place, which also didn’t have an American source. Melville and Hawthorne are the only two Americans on my list. I’m not a Hemingway/Faulkner/Fitzgerald guy. I am not a part of the whole b*llsh*t about the Great American novel. I missed that one. I missed whatever it was you’re supposed to feel patriotic about when it comes to literature. I thought anybody who wanted to write a novel wanted to write a good one. But an American one? As opposed to what? I loved Dickens. I loved Hardy. Later I loved Flaubert and Thomas Mann. All over the world people are more and more interested in the writer then they used to be. They used to be interested in the book. I would say one of the reasons I have such a life in translation—and its true, half of my income as a writer comes from foreign languages—well, I think that the international interest that is in many of those novels is a part of the reason. I therefore strike European, South American, and Asian readers as less American. But you have to remember…it’s unusual that we in the United States have so little interest in literature from outside our shores. American bestseller lists are very American. You look at a bestseller list in Germany, France, Spain or any of the Scandinavian countries—it’s all over the place. Big countries, Russia and the United States, have more in common with each other then we generally like to acknowledge; countries so big and countries so diffuse, so divided, into regions that are as mistrustful of one another as they are of foreign countries. I’m 74. I’ve lived years outside of my country. I travel a lot..."
- John Irving, 'Yankee : New England's Magazine'
Paul McCrane, Rob Lowe & Jodie Foster in 'The Hotel New Hampshire'
Robin Williams & Glenn Close in 'The World According To Garp'
Ilan Mitchell-Smith & Jenny Wright in 'The Chocolate War'
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 22, 2017 13:38:39 GMT
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. A poor excuse to post a picture of Jennifer O'Neill:
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 22, 2017 13:47:38 GMT
The Paper Chase THE PAPER CHASE is one of my favorites, too, bravo. And ON GOLDEN POND - oh, what a beautiful New Hampshire location that is. At least a couple of times of the year (spring and fall) it's hard to beat New England for landscape beauty. Some would probably say all year, but personally I find the long winters hard.
Seems to me The Paper Chase was a pretty big film, making John Houseman more popular and making Lindsay Wagner a star. And following on The Last Picture Show, it was thought to solidify Timothy Bottoms as a star. The film is almost forgotten now. Ah, New England and Harvard in the fall.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 22, 2017 14:17:35 GMT
Not sure why I thought of Peter Proud before Summer of '42, the latter being another big film in its day that's now largely forgotten. Jennifer O'Neill was one off the most beautiful women to grace the screen. Alas, not one of the most talented.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2017 14:40:38 GMT
Thanks for the great post, petrolino. I'm a big fan of John Irving, especially of his novel, "The World According to Garp." He's a New England man all the way. Still has a home in Vermont, if memory serves - central eastern border with New Hampshire where the apple trees grow. Hi spiderwort. John Irving has his obsessions that he likes to dwell upon, one of them is wrestling! I always think of writers when I think of New England. Perhaps the classic image of a writer shut away in a snowbound shack, like Stephen King in Maine, his only visitor Senator Susan Collins. Irving paints a picture of New Hampshire full of oddballs. Some of my family on my father's side emigrated to Salem, Massachusetts many moons ago and they worked in publishing.
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 22, 2017 14:58:34 GMT
petrolino Thanks for your most interesting comments. They evoke memorable images. And I can't believe you have ancestors in Salem, and in publishing no less, though I probably shouldn't be surprised, given America's history. Have you ever been to Salem? It would be interesting to get your feedback about the place so filled with history linked to England. I have ancestral history in New England, too - folks from England, of course. And I've spent a lot of time there, even lived there for nearly a year (in western Mass). It's a special world, and you're right about the writers who are so identified with it. In Amherst, Mass I lived less than two miles from Emily Dickinson's home, passing by it every day on the way to the town common. And I'll never forget going to Concord, Mass. and seeing the homes and graves of Louisa May Alcott, Nathanial Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. New England has a rich literary heritage without question, one which has carried over into the contemporary world. (Oh, now I miss it even more! I'm thinking of retiring there when the time comes - so many reasons to do it and only one reason not to: the long winters. But with climate change that soon may not be a problem. They've recently been having very high temps in Massachusetts at a time when they should be having quite chilly ones.)
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 22, 2017 15:04:37 GMT
The Stranger w/Orson Welles
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Post by kijii on Oct 22, 2017 15:50:26 GMT
Ethan Frome (1993) is set in Vermont. Edith Wharton's home is now a museum in the Berkshires of Western Mass. The museum is called The Mount: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mount_(Lenox,_Massachusetts) I have visited there during a weekend while attending a Summer concert at Tanglewood. And, not far down the road is Arrowhead, Herman Melville's House: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_(Herman_Melville_House). Speaking of Melville, Moby Dick (1956) begins in New Bedford, MA which was once the whaling capital of the world and has a great Whaling Museum. Passionada (2002) is a nice little romantic comedy which seems to have been filmed mainly in the New Bedford area. It never did well at the box office nor had any famous actors, but I saw it and recognized several outdoor street scenes from New Bedford. I recommend streaming this movie since it IS a nice romantic comedy with forays to Providence. RI (about 40 miles away). I know this trip well since I once lived in the New Bedford area and did a daily commute to Providence while working at Brown University. And while talking about NE fisherman don't forget, the classic Captains Courageous (1937), which was about a fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Perfect Storm (2000) also used Gloucester as a filming location and subject for a movie. Mystic Pizza (1988) was centered in the Eastern part of Connecticut--Groton and Mystic.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 22, 2017 16:12:32 GMT
A Separate Peace and The Friends of Eddie Coyle look at two very different social settings in New England, an elite prep school in the forties and the Irish mafia much later.
Never saw the film of A Separate Peace but the novel was a great read in my yoot.
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Post by telegonus on Oct 22, 2017 16:37:09 GMT
The Devil And Daniel Webster
Now, Voyager
Talk Of The Town
Six Bridges To Cross
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
The Haunted Palace
Mystery Street
Walk East On Beacon
The Other
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