Citizen Kane (1941)
The film film school built itself around. Deep focus, ceiling shots, fractured timeline.
Filming Location: San Diego
Films in this library shot in San Diego, a Southern California city used for military, coastal and suburban work. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
CaliforniaSome Like It Hot (1959)
Wilder's 1959 cross-dressing comedy. Lemmon and Curtis on the run, Monroe in her last great performance.
CaliforniaDemolition Man (1993)
Demolition Man is one of the funniest action films of the early 1990s and one of the most accidentally prescient. Marco Brambilla directed in his feature.
CaliforniaBattleship (2012)
The 7.5 rating is honest evaluation. Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper.
CaliforniaRun Silent, Run Deep (1958) Review
Run Silent, Run Deep is one of the great American submarine films and one of the most accomplished collaborations between Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Robert Wise had been one of the most accomplished American directors of the previous two…
CaliforniaApollo 13 (1995) Review
The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
CaliforniaCasino (1995) Review
Scorsese's Las Vegas mob masterpiece. De Niro, Pesci, Sharon Stone Oscar-nominated.
CaliforniaTora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Review
Foundational dual-perspective Pearl Harbor film. Equal substantive treatment of American and Japanese forces.
CaliforniaBring It On (2000) Review
Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, and the cheerleading film that made its race plot load-bearing. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of one of the best teen films of the 2000s, anchored by Kirsten Dunst at her career peak, Gabrielle Union in…
CaliforniaHoney, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) Review
Rick Moranis at his peak, practical effects that put CGI to shame, and Disney back when it made original family adventures. The Blu-ray release is out of print and trades at collector prices.
CaliforniaHardcore (1979) – Review
Paul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist household in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's a hard film to watch, not because of what it shows, which is less explicit than its reputation suggests, but because of what it understands about…
CaliforniaGattaca (1997) Review
Andrew Niccol designed Gattaca's world with genuine intelligence. The discrimination is depicted without melodrama, which is the film's most mature choice.