Other films like this with great locations .....
i mean rainy, sparsely populated places with beaches and beautiful pubs and houses. and only a few characters. they need not be thriller. im just talking about the locations.
share"Eye of the Needle," early 80's spy thriller with Donald Sutherland (Kiefer's dad) and Kate Nelligan, a very popular 80's actress. This film is one of the most atmospheric spy thrillers you will ever see.
"And Then There Were None," the B&W version of Agatha Christie's novel.
The fantastic, mid-80's "Clue." No beaches, but a beautiful isolated mid-50's New England home, a really good mystery as well as comedy, and apparently about to be remade.
If you don't mind foreign films--and this film is the best film hands-down of the entire 00's, foreign or otherwise: "The Return," Russia, 2004. You haven't lived until you've seen it. Three main characters, a road trip, island, and a very mysterious box.
thank you so much, hilaryjp. i watched EYE OF THE NEEDLE as a kid. dont remember much of it.
i'll check out the other films. i have watched THE RETURN. but dont recall much of it.
once again, thank you.
I "met" a very very strange person here on IMDB (on another board) who comes from Amrum, the island next to Sylt, where The Ghost Writer was filmed. It seems as if people from those islands really are as strange as they seem to the Ghost.
There's really no other movie like it. Think: What other film ever had scenes on a ferry in a northern sea? A hero so alone and isolated we never learn his name? What's so magnetizing about "The Ghost Writer" is all the rich, sumptuous...GRAY. It's just so damn melancholy and spooky. Nothin' else like it.
If you're ever in New England and don't have the sea-legs to travel offshore to any of the private islands, drive north to Houlton, Maine. Houlton is the first actual town after nearly three-and-a-half hours of utter wilderness on I-95 north of Bangor. It's a mile from the Canadian border, and for some reason, a few venues there remind me a lot of The Ghost Writer. Same ominous No Man's Land feeling.
There's really no other movie like it. Think: What other film ever had scenes on a ferry in a northern sea? A hero so alone and isolated we never learn his name? What's so magnetizing about "The Ghost Writer" is all the rich, sumptuous...GRAY. It's just so damn melancholy and spooky. Nothin' else like it.
agreed. i haven't seen anything like it. it must be one of the greatest movies of place. i am curious about THE SHIPPING NEWS - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120824/?ref_=nv_sr_1
If you're ever in New England and don't have the guts to travel offshore to any of the private islands, drive north to Houlton, Maine. Houlton is the first actual town after nearly three-and-a-half hours of utter wilderness on I-95 north of Bangor. It's a mile from the Canadian border, and for some reason, a few venues there remind me a lot of The Ghost Writer. Same ominous No Man's Land feeling.
traveling offshore to the islands is dangerous? i dont understand. i live in india. most of the indian beaches are dirty as hell. and its overpopulated. and i live in place where public alcohol consumption (beer and wine excluded) is prohibited. which attracts me more to the bars and locales in GHOST WRITER.
btw, have you watched THE BIRDS, the hitchcock film? i love the locales in it. BODEGA BAY is awesome. i liked the bar in which they all gather when the birds attack. the gas station near it. those roads through which tippi herden drives. its not a big city. its not a small town. but its like an island community with some pretty strange characters. share
The Wicker Man and The Nightcomers (The Brando film) also have some beautiful locales. But nowhere close to Ghost Writer of course.
shareFirst, I'm going to edit what I said about "if you don't have the guts." Second: You mean I shouldn't plan on expatriating to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?
But nowhere close to Ghost Writer of course.
I meant "stomach," as in "sea-legs." You/We're right--I have never seen anywhere another film that combines modern technology and the somberness associated with a cold windswept environment the same way. Never. (The Shipping News is kinda tacky, IMO. If it ever did hold up well--and the novel won major 90's awards--it certainly doesn't today, and is very far from a thriller.)
The most atmospheric GW scene by far, and yet another I don't recall duplicated in any other film, is when the Ghostwriter goes by taxi to that impeccable-but-deserted inn. Of all my "favorite" scenes, that one is fightin' for #1. The feeling of foreboding is so overpowering...and then nothing happens. That particular scene--for this reason--is like Hitchcock.
I dislike The Birds and every Hitchcock film after North By Northwest not about espionage. I started to watch The Girl on HBO, about Hitchcock's infatuation with Tippi Hedren, but it frankly was too disturbing. A lot of HBO films seem intent to be disturbing. Felt sorry for Ms. Hedren.
Which Wicker Man? The original or remake? I was going to suggest--in terms of island claustrophobia--"The Others." That film's genre however is worlds apart from Ghost Writer's. The whole island "thing" is just so cool, though (which is why GW kinda-sorta reminds me of Eye of the Needle, And Then There Were None, and The Return). share
The most atmospheric GW scene by far, and yet another I don't recall duplicated in any other film, is when the Ghostwriter goes by taxi to that impeccable-but-deserted inn.
yes, that was awesome. the taxidriver looks quite sinister and was gruff to the ghost. the girl at the inn was very beautiful.
i also like the views from the place where brosnan lives.
i watched EYE OF THE NEEDLE. great locales. but average film. they did not use the locales to its full potential. share
how about polanski's CUL DE SAC?
shareI've never even heard of "Cul de Sac." I'll have to look it up. Instead of streaming films, I almost always buy them from Ebay. Some hard-to-find classics or little-known works by major directors, however, cost as much as $25. I guess I should resubscribe to Netflix DVD rental again.
sharethis one looks good:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3561180/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1