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Made in Edinburgh

posted 11 years ago by ronfirv
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Other threads have set me wondering how many general release films have been made in Edinburgh. Comments would be welcome I assure you. I am an Edinburgh lad but now expatriate, sadly.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Trainspotting, One Day, Filth,Tunes of Glory,next year we will see The Railway Man,but which others have I missed or forgotten about? There is the famous RLS tale, Kidnapped, but I believe not made in or around Auld Reekie.

[–] Spielburger 11 years ago

Mentioned this elsewhere, but although "Trainspotting" and "Filth" are set in Edinburgh, a lot of the filming for both was done in Glasgow and other parts of Scotland.

A fair bit of "Cloud Atlas" was shot in Edinburgh, with a major scene at the Scott Monument.

[–] deandanish 11 years ago

Other threads have set me wondering how many general release films have been made in Edinburgh. Comments would be welcome I assure you. I am an Edinburgh lad but now expatriate, sadly.

Hallam Foe, David Mackenzie, 2007 Jamie Bell ...oedipully obssessed with his mummy and his stepmummy .He crawls about rooftops and holes up in a clocktower The tower belongs to that Neo-gothic heap near the Walter Scott Monument, the Balmoral Hotel.... Balmoral Hotel Princess Street,Scott Monument
and Cockburn Street

Shallow Grave, Danny Boyle, 1994
This before Trainspotting .The opening shots race along the cobbles of the New Town stopping at a door in North West Circus Place.Though much was filmed in Glasgow ,Shallow Grave reeked of Edinburgh. If nothing else it has the' best flats in Britain'.
North West Circus Place..New Town

The Illusionist, Sylvain Chomet, 2010
Princess Street Edinburgh Castle,Old Town

Festival, Annie Griffin, 2005
Royal Mile, High Street, Old Town, Princes Street, The Mound, George Square gardens, Abercromby Place

Burke and Hare, John Landis, 2010 Simon Pegg
Royal Mile, Old Fish Market Close, University of Edinburgh Anatomy Museum,
Heriot Place

One Day, Lone Scherfig, 2011
Arthur's Seat, Cockburn Street/Warriston Close, Moray Place/Forres St, Parliament Square, Calton Hill

Trainspotting
Princes Street, Waterloo Place, Leith Street

Chariots of Fire, Hugh Hudson, 1981
Arthur's Seat, Princes Street, The Mound, Broughton Place, Holyrood Park

Regeneration, Gillies MacKinnon, 1997

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Ronald Neame, 1969
Henderson Row, Grassmarket, Edinburgh Castle, Barnbougle Castle

It is still possible to stand in the exact same spot as Maggie Smith on the Grassmarket and bellow: "Observe, little girls, the castle!", shortly before decamping to Greyfriars Kirkyard.

Death Defying Acts
One Day
Battle Of the Sexes
Case Histories
Woman in Winter
Trouble Sleeping
North and South
Gideons Daughter
Feel the Force
Low Winter Sun

Starting Over
Single Father
39 Steps
New Town Killers
Sword of Honour ..Daniel Craig
The Angels Share
Cloud Atlas
Shoebox Zoo
Looking After Jo Jo
Garrows Law
Michael Winterbottom`s Jude
Great Expectations
The Murder Rooms
The Debt Collector
Grey Friars Bobby
Filth
Deacon Brodie
Rebus
Mary Reilly
Restless Natives
Driving Lessons
Pramface
Complicity
Book of Blood
Outcast
Mausam
Taggart

Too much to describe

[–] ronfirv 11 years ago

Many thanks all of above - great.

Miss Brodie - a gem.
Also, remember "hold your heads up, up, girls, remember you are citizens of Edinburgh"! Unforgettable stuff, brilliant, just brill!

[–] ib011f9545i 11 years ago

DEANAMDDANISH great list,lots of things there I never knew about or had forgotten.
Things like GARROW'S LAW were filmed in Edinburgh but I think it was playing London or at least somewhere else,there was a BBC Dickens filmed in Georgian Edinburgh as well.

One film you don't mention is WOMEN TALKING DIRTY which is a pretty poor film but has great and insane Edinburgh locations,people stay in huge flats at the top of the mound while being unemployed?

Somebody mentioned TUNES OF GLORY but that is STIRLING is it not?

If you look at the 1969 film version of JEAN BRODIE you see Edinburgh in 1969,and the 1979 tv version (now on dvd)shows Edinburgh in 1979,think they hid the tv aerials.

[–] Spielburger 11 years ago

Somebody mentioned TUNES OF GLORY but that is STIRLING is it not?

Correct: and of course we're just talking about the exterior establishing shots, with all the studio work done at Shepperton...

[–] a_heathen_conceivably 8 years ago

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959)! The good one, with James Mason and that dee-eep soundtrack by Bernard Hermann

(off hand) The Mound, Parliament Square (St Giles), University Quadrangle... The film's opening and closing setting is Auld Reikie.

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[–] rnmboon (376) 2 years ago

Avengers: Infinity War

The funny thing about this is that I only found this out myself while watching this film in a cinema in Edinburgh during a trip there. Very surreal to see locations in the film that I had only been to an hour before.