Restaurant scene where Hoffman counted matches that fell on the floor was filmed at Pompilios in Newport
That is a really good family restaurant, and I don't even really like Italian food.
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Restaurant scene where Hoffman counted matches that fell on the floor was filmed at Pompilios in Newport
That is a really good family restaurant, and I don't even really like Italian food.
Couple more for Louisville and one for Bowling Green:
There's an entire section of The Hustler where Newman spends time in Louisville. I think it's around Derby.
William Girdler, born in Louisville, directed a Pam Grier film called Sheba, Baby, in which Grier's character returns home to Louisville (from Chicago) to battle thugs who've been intimidating her father and his business.
John Carpenter (raised in BG) put a lot of little Bowling Green and the surrounding area easter eggs into Halloween, including using street and county names.
There's an entire section of The Hustler where Newman spends time in Louisville. I think it's around Derby.
William Girdler, born in Louisville, directed a Pam Grier film called Sheba, Baby, in which Grier's character returns home to Louisville (from Chicago) to battle thugs who've been intimidating her father and his business.
John Carpenter (raised in BG) put a lot of little Bowling Green and the surrounding area easter eggs into Halloween, including using street and county names.
The filming didn't take place in Ky, but many places in Ky were referenced. The dam was supposed to be Barkley dam even though it was filmed in N.C.
I remember something about The Fugitive & Kentucky but we could never really find anything before. I think I remember a reference to Eddyville at one point in US Marshals about a jumpsuit from one of the escapees in the plane crash.
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The farm scenes in Secretariat were filmed in Lexington. The Derby scenes were filmed at Churchill and the Belmont was at Keeneland.
Correct. There are scenes that were filmed in The Oakroom at the Seelbach Hotel. It was a billiard room back in those days. Now it's just a room that can be rented out for events. Stupid owners ruined it.
The Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones series of fantasy novels and follow-on TV show were loosely based around Kentucky politics at the turn of the 20th century. The Seven Kingdoms parallel the seven regions of the state: Inner Bluegrass, Outer Bluegrass, The Knobs, Eastern Coal Field, Western Coal Field, Pennyrile, and the Jackson Purchase.
Also of note, the character of Ned Stark parallels that of Gov. William Goebel, who was assassinated shortly after winning the election of 1899.
Also of note, the character of Ned Stark parallels that of Gov. William Goebel, who was assassinated shortly after winning the election of 1899.
I'm pretty sure Tommy Lee Jones referenced Kentucky about the search dogs when he was trying to find Harrison Ford's character. Thought there was a Paducah reference but it might have been in the second movie.
The obstacle course was at Ft. Knox. I think some of the barracks were too.
I don't seem to recall dogs in the search for Harrison Ford's escape at the train scene and being set in the Chicago area though it may not all have been filmed there. Likely was the 2nd one with Wesley Snipes on the run in U.S. Marshals since the plane scene was set in that part of Western Kentucky/Illinois.
Yes, some of those old white barracks still there on post and can be seen from 31-W. I go over there a couple times a year for my VA appointments. There were definitely mess halls that my Grandfather was blocked off from getting to pick up the garbage while they were shooting. He would take the 'slop' back from there to the hog farm he worked on.
I must've forgot that line in The Fugitive but now that you took the time to find it, that segment does come back to me now. I got thrown off confusing a reference of Kentucky with an actual scene and what was set/filmed in Kentucky. U.S. Marshals definitely has some scenes in Kentucky. U.S. Marshals Filming Locations
There is a brief clip of some search dogs in the hunt for Snipes towards the end of this video.
I did a little uploading myself for the part in US Marshals when the semi runs through the KSP cars on the bridge. In 2022, shocked this scene wasn't already online.
Another clip of KSP/Kentucky in U.S. Marshals if anyone is interested.
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Russell Crowes character lives (or lived) in Louisville. I have a cousin that was friends with his daughter.
And the first one with the church scene
Another one is Greenland with Gerard butler. They spend half the movie trying to get to Lexington before the world ends. Then from there go to Greenland
something that has annoyed me since middle school. In Clueless the finale is Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd kissing, and she goes "you know what happened next right?" and then it cuts to a wedding and she goes "ewww, we're in California not Kentucky!"
So in California it's ok to bone your brother, but not marry them? I mean I'm 100% positive that if I go to work tomorrow and say "Hey guess what, totally had sex with my sister!" I won't be getting anything other than disgusted looks and I'd probably get something thrown at me.
So in California it's ok to bone your brother, but not marry them? I mean I'm 100% positive that if I go to work tomorrow and say "Hey guess what, totally had sex with my sister!" I won't be getting anything other than disgusted looks and I'd probably get something thrown at me.
Yes. Downtown Louisville at the start. The camp they were taken when captured was an old distillery warehouse off hwy 245 south of Sheperdsville. I lived out there and drove by it every day.
What's funny for anyone from here, was when Orlando Bloom landed in KY and started to drive to E-Town, he took a very obscure route. Instead of just hopping on 65 South at the airport, he went through downtown, may have even crossed the bridge into Indiana if I'm not mistaken and drove through the Cochran Hill tunnel on I-64, complete opposite direction he needed to go, but glad they showed a little of the area in that clip.
They did the same in Stripes. Headed from Louisville to the airport but came back across the bridge. I guess to get the skyline.
Are you talking about the Oakroom Restaurant or the Rathskeller which is in the basement of the Seelbach. The Oakroom is still a restaurant if I'm not mistaken, but the Rathskeller is an event space. I know this because the wedding reception for my first marriage was held down in the Rathskeller.
I'm talking about The Oakroom. It stopped being a restaurant on 1/1/2018. I worked at The Seelbach when it happened. I don't remember his name, but the F&B manager very openly admitted that he was running it into the ground on purpose because he thought it would make more money as an event space. When Musselman bought the hotel from Interstate Hotels he was the only manager not retained.
It certainly was disappointing that more of E'town wasn't filmed in that movie as a resident, being born and raised here.
