Showing posts with label Harrison Ford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harrison Ford. Show all posts

Monday, April 14, 2014

Frantic (1988)

dir. Roman Polanski

Dr. Richard Walker’s (Harrison Ford) hotel – Le Grand Hotel, 2 Rue Scribe, Paris, France.

The hotel window view – Opera Garnier, 8 Rue Scribe, Paris, France.

The flower shop – 5 Rue Scribe, Paris, France. The shop is no longer there.

The bar where Walker is asking about his missing wife – 3 Rue Scribe, Paris, France. The bar is no longer there, replaced with expensive boutiques.

A bum (Dominique Pinon) showing the place where he saw Walker’s wife kidnapped – Passage Brady near Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin, Paris, France.

Walker going to see the hotel desk clerk in a gym – 48 Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin, Paris, France

The American embassy – 11 Rue Berryer, Paris, France. The real American embassy is located at Rue Gabriel.

The Blue Parrot club – 7 Rue du Bourg l'Abbé, Paris, France. The club has been closed and there’s some construction going on around the building. Polanski later used this location in Bitter Moon.

Walker going to Dédé’s apartment – 18 Rue Saint-Nicolas, Paris, France. Many thanks to Adam Roberts from the Invisible Paris blog for helping me to find this location.

The passage leading to Dédé’s apartment – Cour des 3 Frères, Paris, France. The passage is actually across the street from Rue Saint-Nicolas and not behind the door that Walker enters. Many thanks to Adam Roberts from the Invisible Paris blog for helping me to find this location

Michelle’s (Emmanuelle Seigner) apartment roof – this was filmed on a studio set

Walker and Michelle leaving the boat where they’ve been hiding – Voie Georges Pompidou near the Pont de Grenelle, Paris, France

Port Debilly looking toward the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris, France

The exchange that goes awry – the yellow level of the Centre Pompidou parking garage, 31 Rue Beaubourg, Paris, France

Walker and Michelle getting out of the car with a dead driver – Rue de Rivoli at Rue Saint-Denis, Paris, France.

The bar where Walker and Michelle meet with American government agents – Bistrot Marguerite, 1 Place de l'Hôtel de ville, Paris, France

A Touch of Class club – Still searching for this location but it was probably a studio set.

Waiting for the exchange – Pont de Grenelle, Paris, France. The Maison de Radio France is visible on the right.

The exchange – Allée des Cygnes under the Pont de Grenelle, Paris, France. It's located on a narrow artificial island in the Seine, known as the Île aux Cygnes (Isle of the Swans.)

The final confrontation – near the Statue of Liberty at the westernmost tip of the Île aux Cygnes. It’s a one-fourth scale replica of the New York City landmark that was given to the city of Paris by the American community of Paris in 1889, commemorating the centennial of the French Revolution.



My keyboard cover of Ennio Morricone's main theme from the film:


See also...


Marathon Man

The Fugitive

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

dir. Phillip Noyce

The Colombian scenes were filmed near Mexico City and Vera Cruz in Mexico. This only covers the Washington, DC locations for the film.

The White House (north side) - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Jack Ryan’s (Harrison Ford) house – Still searching for this location. The interiors were filmed at 615 S. Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles, California

The CIA Headquarters – Langley, Virginia

Dulles International Airport, Dulles, Virginia

The FBI Building – 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Pennsylvania Avenue at 7th Street NW, Washington, DC

Moira Wolfson's (Ann Magnuson) house – 2039 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CIA Acting Director Robert Ritter (Henry Czerny) and National Security Adviser James Cutter (Harris Yulin) discussing the Colombian operation - The Watergate Steps between the Potomac River and the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC

Cutter’s house - 2912 N Street NW, Washington, DC

Admiral Greer’s (James Earl Jones) funeral – Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

See also...


The Fugitive

Frantic