April 26, 2022

Movies Where Filmed

By roads-rus

I used to have to wait until a movie’s credits rolled to their end to find out where it was shot. Only then did I learn where in the world that movie was made. I don’t know why this interests me, but it does. Lately, intimate details about where a film was shot are readily available on the internet. Other people must be interested too or this would not be happening.

Lately Ruth and I have seen some offbeat locations that are socially important. Last night’s film was the most weird of all. I never expected to see a film made in Azerbaijan but there it was, a love story with a significant female lead. Before COVID struck and we had to cancel travel plans, Ruth and I were planning to go there. We were wrapping up visits to all of the European countries and including Georgia and Armenia in our travel plans. Azerbaijan was also a destination. I’m really sorry now that we did not go there.

Interesting settings for recently seen movies included several offbeat locations. We are watching what we considered unreleased films of note that we had not had access to before. Suddenly we discovered that many of them had found a niche on some of the lesser-known cable channels, and we began watching some of them. Septembers of Shiraz was about Iran. Highway Patrolman, a really odd film about the road, turned out to be about a police officer in Mexico. Asako 1 & 2 was filmed in Osaka, Japan, a place we saw only from a moving train. Goldstone was filmed with one of our favorite Australian actresses who has been in some American films. Her acting name is Jacki Weaver. We have been to the Australian Outback but not to Winton, where Goldstone was filmed.

Azerbaijan was fascinating and culturally significant too. The movie made there was called Ali & Nino. It was totally unexpected and interesting to experience its very particular culture. Like the Jewish characters in Septembers of Shiraz, the main female in Ali & Nino as a modern woman had a hard time fitting into the culture of her Muslim nation not too far from war-torn Ukraine.

Hank

About roads-rus

Since the beginning, I've had to avoid writing about the downside of travel in order to sell more than 100 articles. Just because something negative happened doesn't mean your trip was ruined. But tell that to publishers who are into 5-star cruise and tropical beach fantasies. I want to tell what happened on my way to the beach, and it may not have been all that pleasant. My number one rule of the road is...today's disaster is tomorrow's great story. My travel experiences have appeared in about twenty magazines and newspapers. I've been in all 50 states more than once and more than 50 countries. Ruth and I love to travel internationally--Japan, Canada, China, Argentina, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, etc. Within the next 2 years we will have visited all of the European countries. But our favorite destination is Australia. Ruth and I have been there 9 times. I've written a book about Australia's Outback, ALONE NEAR ALICE, which is available through both Amazon & Barnes & Noble. My first fictional work, MOVING FORWARD, GETTING NOWHERE, has recently been posted on Amazon. It's a contemporary, hopefully funny re-telling of The Odyssey. View all posts by roads-rus
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