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by Joy PecknoldEvery night is movie night right now. To cleanse your palate of Tiger King, consider diving back into the classics (if Julia Roberts is in it, you really can’t go wrong) and playing “spot the iconic hotel.” Vicariously experiencing the Park Hyatt Tokyo with Bill Murray or the Bellagio with Brad Pitt is the next best thing to being there.
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Towering over Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, the Park Hyatt plays a starring role in Sophia Coppola’s 2003 film, Lost in Translation. Unlikely companions Bob and Charlotte, played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, both stay here and famously meet at the New York Bar on the 52nd floor over whisky and a vodka tonic respectively.
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In the classic ‘90s rom-com Pretty Woman, Richard Gere’s Edward hires Julia Roberts’ Vivian to be his escort for the week, and, spoiler alert, they fall in love. It all happens under the Beverly Wilshire roof, at the iconic corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles.
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Can you make a good ‘90s rom-com without Julia Roberts? In 1999’s Notting Hill with Hugh Grant, this historic hotel in Piccadilly features prominently, with some real Ritz London porters making cameos. The scene where Grant’s bookshop owner pretends to be a reporter for Horse and Hound magazine to talk to Roberts’ Anna Scott took place in the Trafalgar Suite.
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When he’s not time traveling back to the 1920s in Midnight in Paris, Gil Pender, played by Owen Wilson, gets to return to the comforts of Le Bristol Paris. The 2011 film used the hotel’s sumptuous Panoramic Suite, so named for its sweeping views of the gardens, Montmartre and Opéra Garnier.
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One of many notable films shot at Fountainebleau Miami Beach is the 1964 Bond movie Goldfinger. In the opening scene, the resort’s curved white exterior is instantly recognizable and Sean Connery’s 007 sports a baby-blue terrycloth onesie (really) when he receives his assignment to track shady bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger.
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In the 1952 Oscar-winning film The Quiet Man, John Wayne is Sean Thornton, an Irish-born Pittsburgher who returns to the Emerald Isle to buy back his family’s farm and, naturally, also falls for a fiery redhead, played by Maureen O’Hara. Much of the film utilized the circa 13th-century Ashford Castle’s gorgeous 350-acre estate grounds.
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Ever since the 1959 Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, where Cary Grant’s character gets mistaken for another man at the Oak Bar, The Plaza Hotel has been a silver screen regular. More recently, Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version of The Great Gatsby set its climatic scene in a Plaza suite.
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While David O. Russell’s American Hustle opens in New York with a Plaza suite sting operation, it also used Fairmont Copley Plaza’s gilded lobby for a celebratory dance scene between Amy Adams and Christian Bale’s characters set to Tony Bennett’s “I’ve Got Your Number.” Tom Cruise also had his ill-fated meeting with Bendini, Lambert & Locke here in 1993’s The Firm.
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Because of producer Jerry Weintraub’s Vegas connections, Ocean’s Eleven had unprecedented access to Las Vegas’ Bellagio, including filming on the gaming floor. Brad Pitt and the rest of the Ocean’s crew parting ways in front of its iconic fountain to the tune of Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” is one of cinema’s great denouements.
VIEW HOTELTowering over Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, the Park Hyatt plays a starring role in Sophia Coppola’s 2003 film, Lost in Translation. Unlikely companions Bob and Charlotte, played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, both stay here and famously meet at the New York Bar on the 52nd floor over whisky and a vodka tonic respectively.
VIEW HOTELIn the classic ‘90s rom-com Pretty Woman, Richard Gere’s Edward hires Julia Roberts’ Vivian to be his escort for the week, and, spoiler alert, they fall in love. It all happens under the Beverly Wilshire roof, at the iconic corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles.
VIEW HOTELCan you make a good ‘90s rom-com without Julia Roberts? In 1999’s Notting Hill with Hugh Grant, this historic hotel in Piccadilly features prominently, with some real Ritz London porters making cameos. The scene where Grant’s bookshop owner pretends to be a reporter for Horse and Hound magazine to talk to Roberts’ Anna Scott took place in the Trafalgar Suite.
VIEW HOTELWhen he’s not time traveling back to the 1920s in Midnight in Paris, Gil Pender, played by Owen Wilson, gets to return to the comforts of Le Bristol Paris. The 2011 film used the hotel’s sumptuous Panoramic Suite, so named for its sweeping views of the gardens, Montmartre and Opéra Garnier.
VIEW HOTELOne of many notable films shot at Fountainebleau Miami Beach is the 1964 Bond movie Goldfinger. In the opening scene, the resort’s curved white exterior is instantly recognizable and Sean Connery’s 007 sports a baby-blue terrycloth onesie (really) when he receives his assignment to track shady bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger.
VIEW HOTELIn the 1952 Oscar-winning film The Quiet Man, John Wayne is Sean Thornton, an Irish-born Pittsburgher who returns to the Emerald Isle to buy back his family’s farm and, naturally, also falls for a fiery redhead, played by Maureen O’Hara. Much of the film utilized the circa 13th-century Ashford Castle’s gorgeous 350-acre estate grounds.
VIEW HOTELEver since the 1959 Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, where Cary Grant’s character gets mistaken for another man at the Oak Bar, The Plaza Hotel has been a silver screen regular. More recently, Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version of The Great Gatsby set its climatic scene in a Plaza suite.
VIEW HOTELWhile David O. Russell’s American Hustle opens in New York with a Plaza suite sting operation, it also used Fairmont Copley Plaza’s gilded lobby for a celebratory dance scene between Amy Adams and Christian Bale’s characters set to Tony Bennett’s “I’ve Got Your Number.” Tom Cruise also had his ill-fated meeting with Bendini, Lambert & Locke here in 1993’s The Firm.
VIEW HOTELBecause of producer Jerry Weintraub’s Vegas connections, Ocean’s Eleven had unprecedented access to Las Vegas’ Bellagio, including filming on the gaming floor. Brad Pitt and the rest of the Ocean’s crew parting ways in front of its iconic fountain to the tune of Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” is one of cinema’s great denouements.
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