Star Trek: Picard (2020-2023) Review
Star Trek: Picard rates 1 for its first two seasons and at most a 5 for its third. Awful from front to back. The first two have nothing in them worth defending, and the third, which almost everybody else rates…
Filming Location: France
Films in this library shot in France, a national industry with its own tradition, and a location others borrow. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
EnglandAround the World in 80 Days (1956) Review
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mike Todd shot the Verne novel in six countries with about forty recognizable faces in one-scene appearances, invented the modern cameo, and beat Giant…
Czech RepublicThe Bourne Identity (2002) Review
The Bourne Identity (2002) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Doug Liman fought the studio through a chaotic shoot, put a fight scene in a Paris apartment with a ballpoint pen, and reset what an action film…
FranceInglourious Basterds (2009) Review
Inglourious Basterds (2009) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Tarantino wrote it in 1998, could not solve the ending, made Kill Bill instead, and came back a decade later. The opening scene is a twenty-five minute conversation…
BudapestMunich (2005) Review
Munich (2005) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Spielberg's coldest film and the one that cost him most. A revenge picture in which every success makes the situation worse, and the argument is in the arithmetic.
FranceBrazil (1985) Review
Brazil (1985) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A clerical error kills the wrong man and a whole film proceeds from a typo. The most internally consistent world in the genre, and Gilliam fought Universal for two…
FranceLove Actually (2003)
Multiple intertwined London relationships unfold across the five weeks leading up to Christmas, from the Prime Minister to schoolchildren. Love Actually is Richard Curtis's 2003 British romantic comedy depicting multiple interconnected London relationships unfolding across the five weeks leading up…
France28 Days Later (2002)
Danny Boyle directs the British zombie film about a man waking from a coma to find London depopulated by a rage virus. 28 Days Later is Danny Boyle's 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a bicycle courier who wakes from…
FranceThe Last Duel (2021)
Ridley Scott's 2021 fourteenth-century rape trial drama. Damon, Driver, Affleck, Comer.
FranceRonin (1998)
John Frankenheimer's 1998 Cold War remnant action. Ronin is John Frankenheimer's 1998 American action thriller.
FranceLe Trou (1960)
Jacques Becker's 1960 French prison drama. Five inmates plan escape from La Sante.
CanadaOnce Upon a Time in America (1984)
Sergio Leone's 1984 final film. New York Jewish gangsters across five decades.