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alexandria hotel
from seven posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
John Doe's creepy apartment in the movie Seven was in the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Somehow after the chase with John Doe, Morgan Freeman ends up exiting the Chester Williams Building across the street... not quite sure how he got there.
650 south spring street
from seven posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The library where Detective Somerset did his research on the seven deadly sins in the movie Seven was actually a bank building on 650 South Spring Street in Los Angeles. In the mid-90s, traveling to libraries to do research using books was something people did.
giant penny store
from seven posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
The city where John Doe commits his series of murders in David Fincher's Seven is never named, but it was filmed mostly in and around Los Angeles. The sloth victim's apartment was in the building of the Giant Penny store, a five-and-dime on the corner of Broadway and 3rd Street in downtown LA that was closed in 1998.
151 regent street
from blowup posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
David Hemmings spots Vanessa Redgrave here at 151 Regent Street near the end of Antonioni's Blowup. It's a great bit of editing as she just vanishes into the crowd.
Useless trivia: The Permutit Company Limited manufactured water softeners and other water treatment products and is now, I believe, part of Siemens Water Technologies.
maryon park
from blowup posted in movies by chewing_the_scenery
In Antonioni's Blowup, David Hemmings photographs the two lovers (and accidentally a murder) here in Maryon Park.
Maryon Park is also the location of the tennis courts where the mimes play imaginary tennis at the end of the movie. The mimes are raucous and rowdy while in the jeep and are only creepy and mime-like once the mime tennis match starts. FYI this movie is better while on drugs.