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.
MexicoTraffic (2000) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Soderbergh shot three parallel drug war narratives himself, gave each one a different film stock, and won Best Director while the film lost Best Picture to Gladiator. Benicio del…
CaliforniaThe film film school built itself around. Deep focus, ceiling shots, fractured timeline.
CaliforniaWilder's 1959 cross-dressing comedy. Lemmon and Curtis on the run, Monroe in her last great performance.
CaliforniaDemolition 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.
CaliforniaThe 7.5 rating is honest evaluation. Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper.
CaliforniaRun 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…
CaliforniaThe 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.
CaliforniaScorsese's Las Vegas mob masterpiece. De Niro, Pesci, Sharon Stone Oscar-nominated.
CaliforniaFoundational dual-perspective Pearl Harbor film. Equal substantive treatment of American and Japanese forces.
CaliforniaKirsten 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…
CaliforniaRick 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.
CaliforniaPaul 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…
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