Films in this library shot in Utah, a state whose rock formations are recognisable enough to be a character. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
ArizonaThe Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A revenge Western that abandons the revenge about halfway through and becomes a film about a man accumulating a family he keeps trying to leave behind.…
ColoradoButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. William Goldman sold the screenplay for four hundred thousand dollars and the film is a comedy about two men becoming obsolete. The freeze frame…
UtahJeremiah Johnson (1972) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A man goes into the mountains to be alone and the film spends two hours on the practical difficulty of that. Almost no dialogue, real winter, and a…
CaliforniaThelma & Louise (1991) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Callie Khouri wrote it in six months as her first screenplay and took the Academy Award for it. Two women leave for a fishing weekend and never…
UtahA traumatized young man dons a Santa suit and goes on a killing spree, in the controversial slasher that drew protests over its release. Sellier Jr.'s 1984 American slasher film depicting a young man traumatized by witnessing his parents' murder…
Berlin1983 John Glen Bond film with Moore in India. Maud Adams as Octopussy, jewel-smuggling circus train, Soviet nuclear plot.
ArizonaLeone's 1968 spaghetti western. Bronson, Fonda as the villain, Cardinale.
ArizonaWayne as Ethan Edwards, racism poisons his own rescue mission. The film that taught New Hollywood to subvert genre.
ArizonaNine strangers in a coach, each a study in social position. Stagecoach is the John Ford-directed western that revived the genre after a decade of decline and established the template that the next half-century of American westerns would follow.
CaliforniaDean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
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Pinewood StudiosStar Wars: The Last Jedi is the middle entry of the Disney-era sequel trilogy. Rian Johnson wrote and directed.
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