Starring San Francisco: A Retrospective and a Look Ahead
This column had a good run, but this is where I get off. Turns out you can only watch so many San Francisco movies...
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Greg Dewar said:
September 29, 2009 3:41 PM
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Theives' Highway is a good one, esp. if you wanna see what the area around the Embarcadero used to look like.
Rain Jokinen said:
September 29, 2009 4:34 PM
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"Petulia" is probably my all time fave San Francisco movie...
Beej said:
September 29, 2009 4:45 PM
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine starring Vincent Price & Frankie Avalon was filmed in San Francisco. There's a chase scene in West Portal.
Aaand I'm kind of embarrassed I know that.
cedichou said:
September 29, 2009 10:00 PM
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The only movie I have seen shot in SF was Will Smith's The Pursuit of Happyness. Not that it's a good movie, but they were shooting in our neighborhood at duboce park (http://sfist.com/2005/10/10/in_pursuit_of_pursuit_of_happyness.php) where they had dug a hole for a bart entrance. In the movie, will smith is running away from a cab driver through dolores park to use that bart entrance. They had round the clock security to prevent people from not taking fake bart or something, for like a week. It was a one second shot. Monumental waste of money.