the single greatest 1 LOCATION movie ever

[Keith Alan Morris]

I want to do a one location movie when I get my Red, here at my house. What are some great one location movies?

[Erik Widding]

Rope, 1948, Hitchcock.

[Finner]

Breakfast Club, this one would have been easy on the budget and I bet it made a ton.

[Graeme Nattress]

Punishment Park?

Graeme

[Tom Lowe]

That old-school picture with the reporters in the newsroom, when the murderer is on the loose. Can't remember the name. It might have been Hitch.

[David Mullen ASC]

Depends on how restrictive you want to be regarding a movie being shot in a single location. There are a number of great movies mostly shot in one location, but not exclusively so. For example, "Das Boot".

A low-budget movie that uses a single location very effectively was a sci-fi film called "Cube".

Of course, there's Hithcock's experiments in "Rope" and "Lifeboat".

But if you expand the subject to include movies predominantly in one location, but with some other locations, you can include a lot more movies in the discussion, like "Alien" for example.

There was a good HD horror film called "Session 9" shot in an abandoned mental asylum.

"The Others" is another good single-location movie. Horror films lend themselves to that sort of restriction.

[Digital Island]

12 Angry Men (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)

[Jaime Vallés]

Rear Window. The whole movie was shot in the one set, looking out from Jimmy Stewart's window. Brilliant movie.

Shameless plug: Another example is my movie "Casi Casi" (check out my signature). Around 85% of the movie was shot inside my old high school. We had to work really hard to create variety in the looks of the classrooms and hallways.

[Clayton Harper]

I liked Linklater's Tape.

[Clayton Harper]

There was a good HD horror film called "Session 9" shot in an abandoned mental asylum.

I like you, Mullen.

[Michael Booth]

Evil Dead, Clerks, Day of the Dead, Death and the Maiden, Dogville, The Shining.

[Dan Blanchett]

A low-budget movie that uses a single location very effectively was a sci-fi film called "Cube".

I finally saw Cube (and Session 9, shot on HD) last year on DVD. I thought Cube was great and a bit underappreciated. Didn't see the sequel.

Mamet films, due to their stage play roots, often feature one or very few locations. I really enjoyed Glengarry Glen Ross. And Oleanna is another good example.

(and ditto on Linklater's Tape & Kevin Smith's Clerks)

[P Andersson]

the fast runner

[Keith Alan Morris]

Yep, I've seen all of these, except for Casi Casi. :) Better open it up to primarily one location movies...


But if you expand the subject to include movies predominantly in one location, but with some other locations, you can include a lot more movies in the discussion, like "Alien" for example.

[Keith Alan Morris]

and for the record, i dont like these smiley faces, it looks like i'm laughing at you Jaime and I'm not. I'm merely smiling.

[P Andersson]

in that case, the original solaris

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Evil Dead, Clerks, Day of the Dead, Death and the Maiden, Dogville, The Shining.

...Been a while since I've seen some of them, but how is Clerks a one-location movie? Maybe I'm picking nits, but there was the trip to the funeral home. Hehe.

Hitchcock had a couple... Rope (already mentioned). And for the most part all one location - Psycho, which gets my vote.

[Jason Murphy]

The first half of Kurosawa's High and Low is more or less all in one room. It's one of Kurosawa's best movies.

Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flowers of Shanghai is all set within the same Shanghai brothel. It's a total masterpiece; anyone with any interest in camera movements and sequence shots should see it. Also, the cinematography is breathtakingly beautiful.

Also, there's an interesting movie with Rip Torn I watched recently called Coming Apart. Well worth tracking down; Kino has it on DVD I believe.

[Ace]

What about that movie with robert downey junior and 2 girls in an apartment? I thought that was pretty good.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I think that was "Two Girls and a Guy"... Kinda put me to sleep or I just wasn't in the mood for that kind of movie the day I saw it.

[Finner]

What about that movie with robert downey junior and 2 girls in an apartment? I thought that was pretty good.

Wasn't that an episode of "COPS" where downey gets busted for the 68th time?

[Ace]

I think that was "Two Girls and a Guy"... Kinda put me to sleep or I just wasn't in the mood for that kind of movie the day I saw it.

I just love the scene where the girl hears a gunshot in the bathroom, opens the bathroom door and sees roberts brains splattered all over the walls with blood everywhere.. Then he just gets up and says "just kiddin" or something along those lines.. Or perhaps im remembering it wrong..

[PaulClements]

Of course there is phonebooth... can't say I'm a huge fan of it but it's one of the most modern such films (None Horror) to have success so I thought I'd throw it in (Unless someone did and I missed it). What I did think was interesting was the time in which it took to film it; 7 days. And the comparitive success it had. I also think it manages to sustain the tension fairly well throughout. For me it was let down by the fact the shooter was so obviously Kiefer Sutherland that the body found at the end was blatently not the shooters.

[Clayton Harper]

Of course there is phonebooth...

That movie has the ability to make me laugh like no other. The sniper reloads his weapon like 80 times without firing a single shot. Everytime Keifer Sutherland needs to be menacing, they just make that rifle bolt sound.

[Mark L. Pederson]

LIFEBOAT - only the master shoots a feature and keeps it compelling on a rowboat.

[Rob Lohman]

Not sure if this qualifies.

Russian Ark (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318034/) (Click for IMDB page)

Tagline: "2000 cast members, 3 orchestras, 33 rooms, 300 years, ALL IN ONE TAKE"

96 minute film shot entirely on a steadicam in "one take". Obviously they had a couple of takes since stuff went wrong, but the you're watching a single take from start to end without *any* cuts in it.

Interesting movie to watch (I have the pleasure of owning it on DVD).

[Sanjin Jukic]

I could put a part of the movie Russian Ark online but at the moment I am tired with all those convertings.

[Sean]

Hard Candy

Celebration (Festen)

[Zakaree Sandberg]

not ONE location but almost.. was mr smith goes to washington

[Graeme Nattress]

12 Angry Men?

Graeme

[Dominic Jones]

The Thing! Awesome movie...

Oh yeah, and a lot of other Carpenter movies - Assault on Precinct 13 (almost all one location), same with Halloween, probably others but I'm too tired to think!!

There's also, along the "nearly one location" lines the likes of Reservoir Dogs, of course.

12 Angry Men is amazing, and probably one of the most gutsy and brilliant films I've ever seen - keeping tension in one room with 12 people just talking for 2 hours is no mean feat!

[Rob Lohman]

Phonebooth was pretty low on locations and really made use of their major location as well

[PaulClements]

I quite liked The Descent, pretty much all the same location. Again another example of how horror movies often use the environment almost as if it were another character in the movie. It's hard to think of a horror movie that is widespread location wise... 28 Days Later springs to mind.

[Sanjin Jukic]

Zabriske's Point Death Valley

http://p.vtourist.com/1215186-Zabriskes_Point-Death_Valley_National_Park.jpg

http://www.deathvalley.com/dv/index.php

http://www.trussel.com/lyman/look69.jpg

Antonioni's America

http://www.trussel.com/lyman/look69.htm

Zabriskie Point - Michelangelo Antonioni (1970)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066601/

[Harva Raj]

Panic room
Runtime: 112 min
Awards: 1 win & 7 nominations

not bad for a single location movie.but isn't the greatest of its kind.

[Poi Boy]

Sanjin,
where do you get all this stuff ? love the LOOK cover.
I never saw this movie...any reviews ?
Aloha
-A

[Sanjin Jukic]

Poy Boy.

but it's a classic from the late 60's. I'm not sure you can get on DVD but VHS is still available hope so. Zabriskie was iconic film for my generation born in 50's. Something like should be Jannard's age. But is still a big ideological fight in Hollywood and abroad about all those 60's stuff. And the things are repeating again today: look at the Bush(s) and her Majesty BP/Shell Queen today. And Mr. Blair is standing to protect this. Everything is about a money and power. Royals, Socialists, Clerics, Greens, Reds ... all they need a money to GAIN POWER. We are entering in the age when a power should be resolved forever or we (all the planet) we are going to be destroyed in their's bullshit power wars. WE MUST STOP THIS OR OTHERWISE WE ARE GOING TO HELL VERY SOON . . .

[Poi Boy]

I must have been on acid when it came out because I don't remember. I'll have to look for a copy.
Aloha
-A

[Sanjin Jukic]

No acid today, just a RED WINE, maybe some whiskey (if you can afford a good one) after that but we are all STILL Romans or similar...

Zabriskie Point - Michelangelo Antonioni (1970)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066601/

[Poi Boy]

I'm off to the colosseum !
-A

[damonbots]

Glengary Glen Ross for the most part

[Sanjin Jukic]

As I can see from your's Kaliua. I do have one good friend in Honolulu,
he is a diver and photographer (vr panoramas), and I have a plan to get it there soon as possible...
but have a look now at the two examples of Vittorio Storaro's masterpieces...

http://www.sanjinjukic.com/extras/APOCALYPSE_NOW-BRANDO.jpg

APOCALYPSE_NOW_WITH_BRANDO.mov

ftp://84.112.86.213/Library/FTPServer/FTPRoot/Movies/APOCALYPSE_NOW_BRANDO.mov

or

http://www.sanjinjukic.com/extras/LAST_TANGO_IN_PARIS.jpg

LAST_TANGO_IN_PARIS

ftp://84.112.86.213/Library/FTPServer/FTPRoot/Movies/LAST_TANGO_IN_PARIS.mov

Also an exclusive 48 hours of download time limit. Get it as soon as possible.

TO FTP DOWNLOAD USE FIREFOX ON BOTH PLATFORMS!!!!

[Júlio Taubkin]

There's also, along the "nearly one location" lines the likes of Reservoir Dogs, of course.


I can't believe it took to page 4 to appear! You can certainly count locations, (breakfast, warehouse, car, sidewalk (intro) and streets around the store, and exterior of warehouse (for a brief showing of the hostage cop),and it's simply excellent!

[Keith Alan Morris]

great article on antonioni, third man! i really related to him, and it, and everything. its funny how no matter how much things change, they stay the same...

i've seen every other movie listed here, so thats now on my list. i want to make something magical, worthy of the Red, but have the confines of one location. its going to be tough...

[Dan Blanchett]

SAW

Not a great film, but clever use of location.

[Ken K]

I'm going to have to give a nod to 12 Angry Men and Glengarry Glen Ross. Both were great, but 12 Angry Men definitely takes the cake.

[Jeremy Hughes]

Not a movie but... Gilligan's Island.

Because I can't think of one single location movie that hasn't been mentioned. I'll try though. :)

[Poi Boy]

I have to vote for Hitch.
Aloha
-A

[Sean Michael Johnston]

How about The Terminal?
Spielberg and Tom Hanks

[Poi Boy]

One just came to mind. A Scifi movie from 1985 "Enemy Mine". Not strictly one location but very close.
Aloha
-A

[Jaime Vallés]

How about The Terminal?
Spielberg and Tom Hanks

Good call. I think this is one of those highly underrated movies out there. Brilliant performance from Tom Hanks, and beautiful photography courtesy of Janus Kaminski. If you can get past the implausibility of the premise, it's a great story. And Catherine Zeta Jones is smokin' hot! :clown2:

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I completely spaced out The Terminal. Agree - great movie.

I still think Hitchcock holds the crown here though. So much of his work defined much of the suspense/thriller/horror genres as we see them today. 12 Angry Men definitely gets a nod.

I also thought of Enemy Mine, but discarded it because after thinking on it a bit more, it really wasn't just one location. But most of it takes place on the alien planet. Too bad it was somewhat low budget (and the FX show it, even for '85) and I think it deserved some better dialogue and tweaks to some of the script. But overall, it's an underrated sci fi movie. Dennis Quaid was OK in it, but Louis Gossett Jr. was great as the Drak alien.

[Dan Blanchett]

Speaking of Tom Hanks, Cast Away was a very good film. I realize there were several locations, but it was mostly on the island. I never seem to get tired of watching the plane crash sequence and the whole "Survivor" aftermath up until he gets rescued. The scene where he splits his own tooth still makes me cringe.

[P Andersson]

fashion photographer glen luchford made the "inspiration" to the terminal, a mock documentary called "here to where",

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Luchford

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309671/plotsummary

never saw it

[Dan Blanchett]

Stranded (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283015/) is another underrated, low-budget SF film. Mostly takes place in the ship on a mission to Mars. Strong performances all around. Also, Pitch Black.

[Joel Kaye]

in that case, the original solaris

Which makes me think of Silent Running and Alien (2 locations).

Rope, Rear Window and 12 Angry Men would be my 3-way tie though.

[Poi Boy]

hard to beat Hitch, we keep coming back to him for good reason.
Aloha
-a

[Poi Boy]

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-A

[Ace]

The Moonlanding

[Poi Boy]

you win ! perfect. in your face Hitch ! in all fairness nasa had a bigger budget.
Aloha
-A

[Ace]

I hear it grossed a few hundred billion!

In all reality, it wouldve had to been the highest rating broadcast ever. So.. blame the networks!

[Manfred Lopez]

THX1138
Logan's Run
The Hole
Open Water
Temporada De Patos
La Avventura
Coffee And Cigarettes - (This one I haven't watch all the way to the end yet)
A Knife In The Water
Missery
One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest
When A Stranger Calls
The Andromeda Strain
Nigth Of The living Dead
Swimming With Sharks
Das Experiment
The Last Castle, Midnight Express, etc - (or most Prison Movies)
Hell Night, The Haunting, etc - (or most Haunted House horror films)
Rashomon
.
.
.

[Jared VanLeuven]

Poltergeist.

[kmikami]

My Dinner With Andre!

[kmikami]

Coffee And Cigarettes - (This one I haven't watch all the way to the end yet)

Well, I'll spoil it for you then. Every single scene is in a different location! Spanning several years and even continents :)

[Keith Alan Morris]

Nice list, TheThe! Thanks!

[Weston Ford]

Id have to agree with those that mentioned the Terminal.

I kind of wanted to live in an airport after I watched that.

[Mark B.]

Id have to agree with those that mentioned the Terminal.

I kind of wanted to live in an airport after I watched that.

I've got a friend who speaks Russian... he was very impressed that Mr. Hanks spoke Russian without any accent.

[Poi Boy]

I thought the terminal was ok, not really up to spielberg or hanks best.
Aloha
-A

[Manfred Lopez]

Well, I'll spoil it for you then. Every single scene is in a different location! Spanning several years and even continents :)

For some reason I thought it all took place in one coffee shop with vignetttes of different actors doing different skits. I stopped the movie after the fourth one or so. So you are saying it gets better?

[P Andersson]

here is a classic musical "life at the outpost" from 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLTLbwT5CKc

[Dan Blanchett]

Night on Earth - Jim Jarmusch, 1991

(ok, 5 different countries, but still just a taxi)

[Keith Alan Morris]

here is a classic musical "life at the outpost" from 1979

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLTLbwT5CKc

that is hilarious. probably the funniest thing i've seen online. and i spend way too much time online these days...

[Adrian T.]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8

It's a single location: all in front of a blue screen. :sick:
(sorry Finner, I could not resist :wink:)

[Finner]

Oh the pride I feel not only the professionally good looking and talented HOFF but also a fine piece of art all wrapped up in a music video by the pride of Ontario Canada the "Scatt Bros.". There just is not enough talent out there like this anymore.

Grahame lives in Ontario I wonder if he has had the pleasure of seeing a "Scatt Bros." performance in person?

[Adrian T.]

Oh the pride I feel not only the professionally good looking and talented HOFF but also a fine piece of art all wrapped up in a music video by the pride of Ontario Canada the "Scatt Bros.". There just is not enough talent out there like this anymore.

LMAO! :)

[Andrew Benz]

Not best... but damn good considering... "Feast".

[Andrew Benz]

Not best... but damn good considering... "Feast".
So... everyone else hates John Gulager and "Feast" (for what it was :holloween: :umm: :calm: ...)

[Tom Lowe]

I remembered the name of that newspaper picture -- HIS GIRL FRIDAY.

[Pete Horvath]

Here's a few more:

Wait Until Dark
The Thing
Signs
Halloween
Dark Star
Death and The Maiden

Cheers,
Pete

[Keith Alan Morris]

Rope
Breakfast Club
Punishment Park
Das Boot
Cube
Rope
Lifeboat
Session 9
The Others
12 Angry Men
Rear Window
Casi Casi
Tape
Evil Dead
Clerks
Day of the Dead
Death and the Maiden
Dogville
The Shining
Glengarry Glen Ross
Oleanna
the fast runner
solaris
Psycho
High and Low
Flowers of Shanghai
Coming Apart
Two Girls and a Guy
phonebooth
Russian Ark
Hard Candy
Celebration (Festen)
mr smith goes to washington
The Thing
Assault on Precinct 13
Halloween
The Descent
Zabriskie Point
Panic room
Reservoir Dogs
SAW
The Terminal
Cast Away
Stranded
Silent Running
Alien
THX1138
The Hole
Open Water
Temporada De Patos
A Knife In The Water
Misery
One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest
When A Stranger Calls
The Andromeda Strain
Nigth Of The living Dead
Das Experiment
The Last Castle
Midnight Express, etc - (or most Prison Movies)
Hell Night
The Haunting, etc - (or most Haunted House horror films)
Rashomon
Poltergeist
My Dinner With Andre
Night on Earth*
Feast
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Wait Until Dark
Signs
Dark Star
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Andy Warhol's Empire
Sleep, Couch, Blow Job
Gosford Park
The Return of the Secaucus 7
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
Bergman's Cries and Whispers*
Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice*
The village


Reply with any fixes/changes and I will fix this Master list, I went thru every post so far. (I've seen 95% of these and agree, but cant qualify 5% bc I havent seen them. Tonite I'm watching the original Solaris and 12 Angry Men. Yes!) Thanks for the list! Now to make sublists of Whats Doable from above on No Budget, etc. :)

[Ace]

Hey, I was joking about The Moonlanding...

THis is quite an impressive list.. An authoratitve must see list for any film-maker planning to shoot a one location movie. Good stuff. Should turn this into an amazon list.

[Jason Murphy]

How could I forget Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn? It's a beautiful movie about a possibly haunted old kung-fu movie theatre and its denizens the night before it gets closed down. Sadly, it works much better in a theatre than it does on DVD.

Also, would it be punkish of me to include Andy Warhol's Empire on this list? Sleep, Couch, Blow Job, and many of Warhol's other films would also certainly count as being shot in one location. And they're (perhaps surprisingly to some) pretty great movies (full disclosure: haven't seen Sleep, so I won't pass judgment on it here). Not for narrative junkies, but great nonetheless.

[kmikami]

I hate to be a downer but some of these are stretching the concept of a single location.

Night On Earth takes place in 5 different cities around the world! For a no-budget film it would probably be much more realistic to film in 5 locations in your town than to film in a taxicab in 5 different international cities!

Logan's Run? Sure, a lot of it was filmed inside of a mall but there were definitely a lot of sets built as well, and then they go outside, and then to the capitol building, etc.

Swimming With Sharks? I seem to remember offices, houses, lots of different locations in this.

Or maybe I'm being too overly literal about this :whistling: Hell, a ton of movies that were shot on sound stages could theoretically be considered single location movies :tongue:

[krd]

Here are a few more:

Gosford Park
The Return of the Secaucus 7
The Big Chill
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
The Rules of the Game (with two or three scenes excepted)

Sorry, but quite a few in the list above (La Avventura!? Reservoir Dogs?) don't even remotely qualify, no?

[Jason Murphy]

Not to mention that for someone who wants to film something in his own house, some of these titles will be of limited help. The Terminal, for example. Or THX-1138, which last time I saw it, had at least 20 different locations, including a high-speed car chase (though, except for the last shot, it IS all underground, which I'm not sure counts as "one location"). In fact, like krd and kmikami, I'm not quite sure how a few of these movies even make it onto the above list, unless you use the term "location" as in the sentence: "New York City is one location." (L'Avventura, for example - Italy's a location, right?) :)

All that said, chamber dramas and horror seem to work pretty well here. But why follow the trend? It would probably be much more interesting to try something else.

If you're at all interested in ways to build parts of movies around a location, you could do worse than to look at the Chris Doyle-lensed movie Last Life in the Universe, whose entire middle section was more or less improvised around a run down house (quite beautifully, I might add).

Also, they're not quite one location, but Bergman's Cries and Whispers and Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice use only a few locations to excellent effect.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

If we're going mostly one location another plug for The Sacrifice and Solaris (Tarkovsky)

Also am I the only one who really liked The Big Kahuna? That was about 99% one location.

[Keith Alan Morris]

I made changes as per what I thought. I axed LaAventurra and The Big Chill (major church funeral scene, just saw it again two days ago) but kept Night on Earth. Go figure. But it makes sense to me.

and now its on listmania ( (http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R2EQZ0TMTAJC0E/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view/002-7759697-2008010?ie=UTF8&lm%5Fbb=)phew!): http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R2EQZ0TMTAJC0E/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view/002-7759697-2008010?ie=UTF8&lm%5Fbb=

[Harva Raj]

THX 1138 is not a single location movie.i have the DVD and George Lucas explained that some scenes was filmed in Japan... and main location was san Francisco area.

[Harva Raj]

And how about M. Night Shyamalan's ...
The village
Runtime: 108 min
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations

[Keith Alan Morris]

I think it qualifies as PRIMARILY one location. IMHO


THX 1138 is not a single location movie.i have the DVD and George Lucas explained that some scenes was filmed in Japan... and main location was san Francisco area.

[Chris Forbes]

For the Anal Retentive among us. Alphabetized


12 Angry Men
A Knife In The Water
Alien
Andy Warhol's Empire
Assault on Precinct 13
Bergman's Cries and Whispers*
Breakfast Club
Casi Casi
Cast Away
Celebration (Festen)
Clerks
Coming Apart
Cube
Dark Star
Das Boot
Das Experiment
Day of the Dead
Death and the Maiden
Dogville
Evil Dead
Feast
Flowers of Shanghai
Glengarry Glen Ross
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Gosford Park
Halloween
Hard Candy
Hell Night
High and Low
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Lifeboat
Midnight Express, etc - (or most Prison Movies)
Misery
mr smith goes to washington
My Dinner With Andre
Night on Earth*
Nigth Of The living Dead
Oleanna
One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest
Open Water
Panic room
phonebooth
Poltergeist
Psycho
Punishment Park
Rashomon
Rear Window
Reservoir Dogs
Rope
Rope
Russian Ark
SAW
Session 9
Signs
Silent Running
Sleep, Couch, Blow Job
solaris
Stranded
Tape
Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice*
Temporada De Patos
The Andromeda Strain
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Descent
the fast runner
The Haunting, etc - (or most Haunted House horror films)
The Hole
The Last Castle
The Others
The Return of the Secaucus 7
The Shining
The Terminal
The Thing
The village
THX1138
Two Girls and a Guy
Wait Until Dark
When A Stranger Calls
Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
Zabriskie Point

[Keith Alan Morris]

Now, from this list above, what is do-able on:

A. NO BUDGET

and

B. has plenty of ACTION?

I'm looking for something kinetic, and intensely watchable.

[Weston Ford]

The Village

[Keith Alan Morris]

agreed, til they showed the monster. that was pretty bad, you must admit. and shymalan's cameo.

[Carlo Rho]

Hey guys have a look to Familia (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116274/) is the first movie of Fernando Leon de Aranoa, completely shooted in a house, where a man rent some actors to be his family in his birthday, really funny!

[Jason Murphy]

Now, from this list above, what is do-able on:

A. NO BUDGET

and

B. has plenty of ACTION?

I'm looking for something kinetic, and intensely watchable.

Now, that all depends. What sort of action are you looking for? And perhaps more importantly, what do you mean when you say no budget? Because there's no budget ($1,000,000), no budget ($150,000), and no budget (just me, my buddies, a camcorder and YouTube).

Now, call me cynical, but when I hear that someone's shooting a movie with no budget (of the buddies-camcorder-YouTube variety), plenty of action, and possible commercial viability, I think "Ah, porn shoot."

Darren Aronofsky's PI had a budget of about $60,000, which is generally considered no-budget. It is also pretty gripping. It used a number of locations though.

Now, here is the list; I've cut it down to things that I've seen that might be doable on a really low budget:

Andy Warhol's Empire
Celebration (Festen)
Clerks
Coming Apart
Evil Dead
My Dinner With Andre
Night Of The Living Dead
Open Water
Sleep, Couch, Blow Job
Tape
Two Girls and a Guy

And maybe not even all of these. Of these, really only Evil Dead and Open Water had some action of sorts (well, there's some action in Warhol's Couch of a previously mentioned variety, but we won't count that now), and really Open Water was basically a gimmick in which all the watchable parts came from the highly questionable practice of throwing the actors in the middle of the ocean with REAL SHARKS, which should really go on a list of all time great exploitation gimmicks.

Action can be very tricky to do on no budget, but it's not necessarily impossible. But obviously, action is worth nothing unless there's a point of interest for the audience. Namely either an interesting concept, story, or character. As far as I'm concerned, that should be your starting point here.

Also, if you're still planning on shooting in your house, I'd spend some good time going around the place, looking at it, discovering its unique quirks, visual or otherwise, and making conscious notes of what sort of movie it could support. Because, for example, my 2 bedroom apartment's not big enough to support 90 minutes of non-stop gunplay, and unless your house is freaking huge, it probably won't either. Or see if anything you can find in your house suggests a story. Walk around the place and really look at it.

As has been mentioned before suspense or horror might be easier to do here, though you need to be really good to distinguish yourself these days as a low budget horror filmmaker; lots of competition out there, most of which (probably thankfully) never sees the light of day.

As far as movies go, though, I still think you should check out Last Life in the Universe which is a thriller of sorts, to see what can be done improvising around a large house in the country.

Also, to see how someone can ratchet up tension for the first half of a movie in only one room, pretty much, see Kurosawa's High and Low.

Also, come to think of it, you should check out Patrice Chereau's recent film Gabrielle. It's a chamber drama set almost entirely in the house of a wealthy Parisian couple in the 1920's or so. It's pretty gripping, the cinematography is fantastic, and it uses that location wonderfully.

[Keith Alan Morris]

http://ufo-tech.com/WordPress/?p=66 has the locations and the camera tests i've done so far on my DVX. jason, check out pics 11 and 12 and the panoramas.

i just met a pro rigger who is interested in doing a no-budget action film too (i dont like horror, 'cept for evil dead). he has access to rip cords or whatever you call it--where someone gets shot or punched and goes yanked up into the air. i'm doing a godard-influenced film for my graduate thesis and i'm at the point of just doing something visceral and with crazy action.

i know i wont get much support here, but i want to do tests of straight action sequences first, see if i can pull them off (mariachi-style, except more, using this rigger--hes a safety engineer), then wrap a story around it if i get some great stuff. i have the idea already, it involves using the same stuntman over and over.

i am looking to do a NO BUDGET action--not 60g, NO G--just me, a crew (unlimited access to that and actors), matte paintings, my rigger, and the RED.) I just did a 2G movie that screened at the Cannes market, so budget is irrelevant. I can squeeze the s*** out of a buffalo nickel.

[Harva Raj]

should watch these movie,

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Running time:140 min
Worldwide: $849,997,605

The film was shot entirely on sound stages at Fox Studios Australia in Sydney, although practical environments were shot as background footage later to be composited into the film.

read that? now thats what i call ONE location!

[Jeff Kilgroe]

SWIII wasn't entirely shot at the studios in Sydney. They also ventured to Tunisia, again. But that kinda misses the point. I think most of us were viewing the location as what takes place within the film as the setting or location for the story.

In that respect, I'd have to back up to near the beginning of this thread and go with Ace's suggestion. The NASA moon landing. Think about it... What other piece of film has had such an impact on the world? Whether you believe it to be real or not, you can't deny the impression it made on a global scale.

EDIT> I guess the moon landing was actually video and not film, but anyway... Not like we're being picky here. :)

[P Andersson]

"miracle of life"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/program.html

[Keith Alan Morris]

definitely 1 location. lol


"miracle of life"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/program.html

[Scott H. Jones]

Have to mention "What Happened Was" here. Character actor and writer Tom Noonan won Sundance with it in 1994, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit award in 1995. The whole movie follows the first date of two co-workers. It's set entirely in the girl's apartment. It was based on Noonan's play. They performed it off-off-Broadway before making the movie and so were able to rehearse it extensively. Great little movie.

[Keith Alan Morris]

i'll make a new completely updated and ALPHABETICAL list asap, if the hits keep on comin'!

[Mark K.]

In theatres now - Sunshine. Hard Candy is another recent one.

[Martin Weiss]

"Phone Booth" by Joel Schumacher (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183649/)

Might not be the greates ever, but possible the smallest location possible.

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

I've got a friend who speaks Russian... he was very impressed that Mr. Hanks spoke Russian without any accent.


He also spoke some pretty good Bulgarian. :wacko:

(that was supposed to be the language of the imaginary Cracosia...)

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

The Blair Witch Project

300+ mln. gross can't be wrong.

[Marc Berger]

"8 women" from Francois Ozon.

[David Birdy]

Breakfast Club, this one would have been easy on the budget and I bet it made a ton.

Agreed Finner

One location great Movie! Of course the writing & Acting make the movie!

Big chill was also single location. The Usual suspects had a few locations, but long on story short on locations!

EDIT: Das Boat & Dog Day Afternoon

Dave

[Erik Bien]

Lord of the Flies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057261/) (and virtually every other "desert island" movie, i.e., the original "Enemy Mine," Hell in the Pacific (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063056/)).

[Ed Blythe]

Houseboat Horror

According to our good friends at Wikipedia: "It is often described as the worst Australian movie ever made."

AND RIGHTFULLY SO.

[Joe G.]

Closetland - Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe: 1 room.

Rocky Horror Picture Show: except for wedding at opening, all supposed to be 1 house.

Sin City: Shot indoors at Troublemaker Studios, all green screen. Rodriquez did something similar with his 3-D Shark Boy and Lava Girl.

More, if I think of them...

[Keith Alan Morris]

the exhaustive, arguable updated list of 1 location movies:

8 women - Francois Ozon
12 Angry Men
A Knife In The Water
Alien
Andy Warhol's Empire
Assault on Precinct 13
Bergman's Cries and Whispers*
Big Cahuna, The
Big Chill, The
Breakfast Club
Casi Casi
Cast Away
Celebration (Festen)
Clerks
Closetland - Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe: 1 room.
Coming Apart
Cube
Dark Star
Das Boot
Das Experiment
Day of the Dead
Death and the Maiden
Dog Day Afternoon
Dogville
(Andy Warhol's) Empire
Empire Records
Enemy Mine (orig)
Evil Dead
Familia
Feast
Flowers of Shanghai
Gabrielle
Glengarry Glen Ross
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Gosford Park
Halloween
Hard Candy
Hell in the Pacific
Hell Night
High and Low
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Houseboat Horror
Last Life in the Universe
Lifeboat
Lord of the Flies
Midnight Express, etc - (or most Prison Movies)
Misery
mr smith goes to washington
My Dinner With Andre
Night on Earth*
Night Of The living Dead
Oleanna
One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest
Open Water
Panic room
phonebooth
Poltergeist
Psycho
Punishment Park
Rashomon
Rear Window
Reservoir Dogs
Rope
Rope
Russian Ark
SAW
Session 9
Signs
Silent Running
Sin City
Sleep, Couch, Blow Job
Solaris
Stranded
Sunshine
Tape
Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice*
Temporada De Patos
The Andromeda Strain
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Descent
the fast runner
The Haunting, etc - (or most Haunted House horror films)
The Hole
The Last Castle
The Others
The Return of the Secaucus 7
The Shining
The Terminal
The Thing
The Usual Suspects (?)
The village
THX1138
Two Girls and a Guy
Wait Until Dark
What Happened Was
When A Stranger Calls
Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
Zabriskie Point

Sadly, I can't add my film Gutter King to the list. We shot it on one location and it just needed more so we shot all over Orlando.

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18517163424#/video/video.php?v=79492176728&oid=18517163424 or http://gutterking.tv

[Gavin Greenwalt]

I'll mention it again. Since it's been 2 years. :D

The Big Kahuna.

99% of the film takes place in a hotel room.

[Keith Alan Morris]

I just added it. Sorry for that slight 2 years ago. (Phew. Glad I could get that off my chest. I've been feeling guilty for two years. jk!)

I also added Emipre Records.

[Zakaree Sandberg]

im writing a one location short right now (10-15min)
anything more than that, and my extremely constrictive location will get boring

[Brandon Kraemer]

My Dinner With Andre!

Exactly. Truly one location, practically one lighting setup! One of the better dialogue driven films of all time.

While I love Zambriskie Point, that film has lots and lots of locations. Not even close to a 1 location film. Neither is High and Low a one location film, a great movie however, with lots of exterior locations, police room scenes, etc....

Many of the films on this list don't qualify... Das Boat has a big sequence in the house before they launch. Cookoo's nest has the fishing sequence. Usual Suspects has lots of flash back scenes in many locations. Psycho has several locations, starting with an office in downtown Phoenix. Sin City has locations all over the place.

Sorry, not to pick nits.

[Liam Hall]

Phone booth...

Dog Day Afternoon

And talking of mental asylums, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was mostly (apart from the boat) one location.

Doh, just realised this is an old thread...

[Charles Angus]

Another vote for 12 Angry Men - fantastic.

[Jason Murphy]

Doh, just realised this is an old thread...

Yeah, it's always a good sign when you start reading a thread, know you've seen a similar discussion somewhere before, are surprised to find that you very much agree with a few posts, and then finally recognize that they are posts you made almost two years ago.

...Aaaaand that's how I know I've been on Reduser too long.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Yep. I read through this thread thinking to myself "I sure hope someone mentions the big Kahuna.... Oooo The Sacrifice and Solaris. Two really great single location movies! ... oh wait... I posted that... 2 years ago." :D

[Drew Ott]

Dial M for Murder.

Not sure if anybody has said that one yet.

[Coco B]

Nobody mentioned the amazing:

La Grande Bouffe-dir. Marco Ferreri
The Bow-dir. Ki-Duk Kim
Conversations With Other Women-dir. Hans Canosa

[Tim Hole]

I was going to say Dial M for Murder (great film) and 12 Angry Men fantastic single location film as is Rear Window.

I don't see how Solaris was one location though...or Hard Candy. The films were shot in one location for the majority I guess...this is stretching the premise of single location though! Tape is the closest you will get for single location I think as It literally is one room.

EDIT as you are...talking of Solaris ideas like STALKER is more apt to single locations and low budgets. Apart from the security post (and the tanks). STALKER is an externalisation of internal turmoil and pretty much just set in the country.

You could say that Last Tango in Paris was majority single location - apart from a bit of walking around.

Of course a lot of Adaptations of theatre are scarce of location such as An Inspector Calls or Waiting for Godot.

Waiting for Godot is fresh in my mind as I saw it performed with Ian McKellen and Patrick Steward last month. Was sensational.

[J. P. Sendall]

Now, that all depends. What sort of action are you looking for?


Sounds like an illegal proposition to me! Anyway, 12 Angry Men gets my vote. I mean 1 room and never do you tire of what's going on in that room. My feeling is the tighter the location the better the writing has to be and 12 men in one small room means you got to be a little bit of a genius in your wordsmithing.

Another single locale is the Japanese film 'Woman In The Dunes'. Great location and full of tension and a type of weirdness that only the Japanese can be great at.

trailer http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2346844441/

[Gordon Prince]

12 Angry Men is a great movie.

[Erik Dinnel]

"Cube" seemed more or less one location (albeit studio). Fun, clever, b-movie though.

[Erik Dinnel]

maguffin's right, "Woman of the Dunes" should rank way up there on the list.

[A. Bastaki]

1/ 12 angry men.
2/ cube.

i really like both movies.

[jaadgy akanni]

Tie me up, tie me down (spanish :Átame)

Dog Day Afternoon

[Benni Diez]

The Man From Earth

just a bunch of people talking in a cabin, but it's brilliant!

[Tim Whitcomb]

Two plus year old thread... BUT had to add the most important independent film of all time... one that defined LOW BUDGET...

not only had one location (restaurant) but the whole thing was shot on sticks and if I remember, it was all a two shot. At least one 45 minute "take" was.

MY DINNER WITH ANDRE :)

[Michael Totten]

If my memory serves me correctly I believe " Nailin' Palin " was shot in one location ; )
I think in Alaska... not to far from Russia (as the crow flies) :laugh:

hehe

[Nuno Ribeiro]

M for murder

[Bill Anderson]

Not exactly one location but close enough to get the idea:
Woman in the Dunes. 12 Angry Men. Solaris. Sunshine. The Others, and,
House of Sand. both have decent "makings of". Death and the Maiden.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. OK, just kidding with that one.

[Peter Strietmann]

The Moonlanding



Viewed by 600 million.

At 02:39 UTC on Monday July 21 (10:39pm EDT, Sunday July 20), 1969, Armstrong opened the hatch, and at 02:51 UTC began his descent to the Moon's surface. The Remote Control Unit controls on his chest kept him from seeing his feet. Climbing down the nine-rung ladder, Armstrong pulled a D-ring to deploy the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) folded against Eagle's side and activate the TV camera, and at 02:56 UTC (10:56pm EDT) he set his left foot on the surface.[21] The first landing used slow-scan television incompatible with commercial TV, so it was displayed on a special monitor and a conventional TV camera viewed this monitor, significantly reducing the quality of the picture.[22] The signal was received at Goldstone in the USA but with better fidelity by Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia. Minutes later the feed was switched to the more sensitive Parkes radio telescope in Australia.[23] Despite some technical and weather difficulties, ghostly black and white images of the first lunar EVA were received and broadcast to at least 600 million people on Earth.[24] Although copies of this video in broadcast format were saved and are widely available, recordings of the original slow scan source transmission from the moon were accidentally destroyed during routine magnetic tape re-use at NASA. Archived copies of the footage were eventually located in Perth, Australia, which was one of the sites that originally received the Moon broadcast.

[James T Mather]

Glengarry GlenRoss - essentially a one location drama (originally a stage play)
Conspiracy at Wannsee (just so horrifying to watch, compulsive)
Funny Games (Essentially a one locationer - couldn't make it as far as the end of the flick - good filmmaking with a big point but I lacked the intestinal fortitude to stick with it)
Panic Room (always struck me as a loose retake on Wait till dawn) -

I would also propose that Sidney Lumet has long been the "one room king" - 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, DeathTrap (I love this even though it's daft), Murder on the Orient Express & The Offence (as I recall mostly a police interview) all arguably qualify.

[Joe G.]

And The Landlord (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74/the-landlord-from-will-ferrell-and-adam-ghost-panther-mckay).

[Ace]

The Moonlanding


Viewed by 600 million.

At 02:39 UTC on Monday July 21 (10:39pm EDT, Sunday July 20), 1969, Armstrong opened the hatch, and at 02:51 UTC began his descent to the Moon's surface. The Remote Control Unit controls on his chest kept him from seeing his feet. Climbing down the nine-rung ladder, Armstrong pulled a D-ring to deploy the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) folded against Eagle's side and activate the TV camera, and at 02:56 UTC (10:56pm EDT) he set his left foot on the surface.[21] The first landing used slow-scan television incompatible with commercial TV, so it was displayed on a special monitor and a conventional TV camera viewed this monitor, significantly reducing the quality of the picture.[22] The signal was received at Goldstone in the USA but with better fidelity by Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia. Minutes later the feed was switched to the more sensitive Parkes radio telescope in Australia.[23] Despite some technical and weather difficulties, ghostly black and white images of the first lunar EVA were received and broadcast to at least 600 million people on Earth.[24] Although copies of this video in broadcast format were saved and are widely available, recordings of the original slow scan source transmission from the moon were accidentally destroyed during routine magnetic tape re-use at NASA. Archived copies of the footage were eventually located in Perth, Australia, which was one of the sites that originally received the Moon broadcast.

Thats right. The moonlanding, brought to you by Australia.

God that must be the most delayed reply to a post ever. Thats what, nearly 3 years old? Sheesh.. :)

Maybe I should start going around replying to threads from 2006 for fun.. heheh.

[JosephArthur]

"Cube" and "Breakfast Club" have to be some of my favorite one shot wonders to me.
"Rope" however will be my classic one shot favorite of mine.

[Antony M]

Open Water?

Just floating in the ocean.

[Truls Skare]

Gerry

[Tim Hole]

Now this has come up again I will have to answer again. The single BEST (IMO) single location film is Last Year at Marienbad.

[Neil Larson]

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Die Hard". The entire film was set in the office building.

[DCC Erickson]

THOMAS IN LOVE

Shot "from" one location. Just a bunch of rooms and some not necessary animated sequences. A cool experiment.

[Bill Anderson]

PONTYPOOL:
New release. Apart from one brief opening sequence,
the movie takes place in a small town radio station as frightened
locals call in and describe a disease that induces a zombie like
state overtaking the population. The radio station may be
the only haven, and it seems that the malady is being spread
through syntax. Black comedy, very decent.

[Joe G.]

"Gerry "

Warning, this is one of the all time worst movies ever shot.

If I ever see Matt Damon, I'm going to demand compensation for my time.

[Truls Skare]

"Gerry "

Warning, this is one of the all time worst movies ever shot.

If I ever see Matt Damon, I'm going to demand compensation for my time.

I don´t think its THAT bad. Definitely not on my top list, but Ive seen much worse. I like some of the cinematography in it and the soundtrack isn´t bad either.

But yeah, stay away from it if you can´t appreciate slow hypnotic movies! :)

[Joe G.]

<b>"Gerry"

"I don´t think its THAT bad. "</b>

Well that's where we disagree. It is quite probably THE worst movie ever. Nothing happens. For hours. Nothing.

The people behind it should be strapped down, Clockwork Orange style and made to watch it repeatedly with their eyes taped open until they agree to never attempt to make another film.

[HyderBilgrami]

A Tale of Two Sisters

Asian horror .. you will the movie on youtube.com. I loved the film !

[Jason Murphy]

<b>"Gerry"

"I don´t think its THAT bad. "</b>

Well that's where we disagree. It is quite probably THE worst movie ever. Nothing happens. For hours. Nothing.

The people behind it should be strapped down, Clockwork Orange style and made to watch it repeatedly with their eyes taped open until they agree to never attempt to make another film.

Come on. Gerry isn't a masterpiece, but it's certainly not the worst movie ever. Not even remotely close. In fact, something DOES happen (admittedly, it is only ONE thing, and it happens about an hour and a half in). It's beautifully shot by Harris Savides, and the Arvo Pärt score is great, to boot. Also, I'm pretty sure the people who made it watched it more than anyone else ever will; usually part of the job. They then went on to make Elephant and Paranoid Park, which are among the best American films of the decade (and Last Days, which is pretty amazing, too. Also Milk).

Also, the only way that Gerry is a single location movie is if you count 'The Desert' as a single location. In which case, I've gotta give props to 'Lawrence of Arabia' and '2001: A Space Odyssey,' which almost entirely take place in other single locations, namely, 'Arabia' and 'Space.'

EDIT: Well, hey. Just now realized I made the same point two and a half years ago, and about 5-odd months ago, learned for the second time how old of a thread this was. Now I'm back for the hat trick, it seems. Zombie thread, anyone?

[Keith Alan Morris]

wow, these are great! i dug this old post up and saw lots of new additions...

[Emyr R. E. Pugh]

The Man From Earth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/

[Erik Franzén]

Great thread and great inspiration guys :posti:

[Jeff Coatney]

Sliver
Murder on the Orient Express (if you count the train)
The Ninth Configuration
The Wizard of Oz
One From The Heart
The House on Haunted Hill
The Exorcist
The Keep
Time Crimes
The Poseidon Adventure
The Amityville Horror
Escape from Alcatraz
Moby Dick
Clue
High Plains Drifter
Key Largo
Outland
Silent Running
Cujo
The Paper
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Ghost and the Darkness
Neighbors
Memphis Belle
The Cat's Meow
Dead Calm
Flight of the Phoenix
Miracle Mile
Donovan's Reef
Taking of Pelham 123
Moon
Enemy at the Gates

[Cüneyt Kaya]

sasha grey's first movie...probably inspired soderbergh for girl friend experience...hehe

[scott william]

September - not woody's best and he shot it twice.

[Karel Bata]

Funny how often this question comes up. A bit of copy n paste (and some of these are stretching the notion of 'one location' a bit)...

Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Panic Room, Wait Until Dark, Sleuth,
Gosford Park, A Man Escaped, Riot in Cell Block 11, Shawshank
redemption, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Birdman of Alcatraz, Phone
Booth, Dogville, Clerks, 12 Angry Nen, Rope, Rear Window, Dial M
for Murder, Cube, Sphere, Murder On The Orient Express, Cluedo,
Breakfast Club, The Big Chill, Death and the Maiden, Glengarry
Glen Ross, The Lion in Winter, Cube 2, Sphere, My Dinner With
Andre, The Haunting, Elephant, Two Girls and a Guy, Russian Ark,
Moon, Dog Day Afternoon, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Streetcar Named
Desire, Rain, Mommie Dearest, Misery, Whatever Happened to Baby
Jane, The Collector, The Anderson Tapes, Come Back to the Five
and Dime Jimmy Dean, Hotel, The Caretaker, The Lightship, The
Bunker, Downfall, Evil Dead, Fermat's Room, Night of the Living Dead...

Do Dark Star, Alien, Silent Running, Fantastic Voyage, Die Hard,
Towering Inferno, Titanic, or The Poseidon Adventure count? Knife
in the Water, Dead Calm, and Adrift probably would.

But most of these are actually filmed on a set, with the single
location serving the plot. Many started as stage plays. A real
location rarely offers sufficient size or flexibility. Resevoir
Dogs is often quoted, but several big scenes take place
elsewhere.

Are you determined to not have any exterior shots? Why so?

[Thomas Wright]

The Exterminating Angel- Luis Bunuel, praised by Hitchcock as the best director ever.

[Thomas Wright]

His "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" and "The Young One" are also pretty much one location.

The Young One has a cracking rendition of Sinner man at the end too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5YWEmNO4f4&feature=related

[Bill Anderson]

Bruce McDonald's PONTYPOOL should be at the top of the list (;

From Wikipedia:
Intelligent, ambitious and with plenty to say, it operates successfully as a thriller, horror and political satire", and that "It’ll be interesting to see where they go with the sequel, Pontypool Changes. One can but hope that McDonald and writer Burgess have more intellectually challenging tales to tell from the embittered town of Pontypool, Ontario."

[Bob Gruen]

What exactly is considered a location? It seems to me that most of the films outlined in this post are not one location at all. The initial post is about making an indie film in a house.

Clerks? Been a while but doesn't it start in an apartment? Car scene to a funeral?
Lifeboat? Doesn't it take place on a lifeboat and in a courtroom?
Phonebooth? Shot at a phonebooth, walking around Toronto, and in the sniper's room, no?

I think what this shows is that while you can make a film in one location you can also pepper in a few secondary locations pretty easily.

Bob

[Bill Anderson]

We're allowing for this, Bob. We're being, let's say, practical, (PONTYPOOL has a few seconds in a car) and the majority of examples provided so far should be well within one's ability to grasp and further the one location indie feature concept. There are single scenes within movies that can provide the essence of a one location story, let alone ninety minutes in a submarine or a space-station, with the occasional seconds spent elsewhere. I'm in the middle of writing a "one location" screenplay (as is half the world no doubt) dealing with the cause and effect of gratuitous violence in movies, and the idea came from one, short, scene in a movie.

[Thomas Wright]

Bump

I can't believe no one's piped in on how immensely, vertiginously great Luis Bunuel is: He worked with Dali, cut the eyeball, cloud across the moon, 1929. ffs, eish, 456...

I used to love you guys...

[J Davis]

The lifeboat in Hitchcock's Lifeboat

[Keith Alan Morris]

"Unthinkable" with Samuel L. Jackson...