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Question: Which is your favorite film on Times-News columnist Steve Crump’s list?
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poolman on May 08 at 2:15 p.m.
Weren’t the town seens in the movie Dante's Peak, starting Peirce Brosnan, filmed in Wallace?
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OrangeTV on May 08 at 2:23 p.m.
I gotta go with Smoke Signals - every time I go through the reservation now I picture scenes from that movie. Love that flick. Napoleon Dynamite is a very close number two. My favorite llama scene ever: “Tina! Come get some ham!”
Also, no “Heaven's Gate”?
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jazzyvandal on May 08 at 2:36 p.m.
I love Napoleon Dynamite. Brings back memories of Southern Idaho. haha. I was surprised to not see Dante's Peak on there…
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Nick_Adams on May 08 at 3:44 p.m.
On the list, Pale Rider & Napolean Dynamite. Not on the list…Breakheart Pass (Charles Bronson and Ben Johnson—shot on the wooden tressels over Lawyer's Canyon near Craigmont). There were also several Idaho locations for another Clint Eastwoood movie, Bronco Billy. But it wasn't very good.
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Sisyphus on May 08 at 3:55 p.m.
Smoke Signals. My family loves that movie. I still sing the verses I know to 'John Wayne's teeth'. Is Sherm Alexie still up thataway?
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Cindy H on May 08 at 4:16 p.m.
He moved to Seattle.
Sigh.
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Liz on May 08 at 4:24 p.m.
no question Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah, I'm a dork.
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raymond_pert on May 08 at 4:52 p.m.
It may not deserve being listed, but, I think it merits at least noting that the movie “Talent for the Game” featured location shots in Kellogg, Moscow, Coeur d'Alene, and Genesee.
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MarkU on May 08 at 6:34 p.m.
That's it? I remember Outdoor Idaho showing some scenes about a women who used to film up “nort” , among them being a scene of her in a boat dumping a bear trap into the lake, and another of her pulling her son from a hole in the ice, where she pushed him to get the camera shot.
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OrangeTV on May 08 at 6:47 p.m.
MarkU, you're thinking of Nell Shipman.There was a film festival of her work at the Cd'A Library last year. I wrote an article about it here:
http://getoutnorthidaho.blogspot.com/…
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OrangeTV on May 08 at 6:54 p.m.
Also, if you like Smoke Signals, you should also see “The Business of Fancydancing”, another Sherman Alexie film set in the Spokane Reservation and Seattle. Kind of an intense one…
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Beez on May 08 at 7:18 p.m.
“A Thousand Piece of Gold,” 1991, the story of Polly Bemis who lived in the Salmon River area.
Crump's list is pretty lame, frankly. I wouldn't count movies that were filmed here strictly for the scenic backdrops.
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Escapee on May 08 at 8:27 p.m.
This doesn't count, but I'll toss it in anyhow…”Coeur d'Alene” was actually mentioned in a “Northern Exposure” episode, by “Maggie O'Connell”, one of the show's principal characters.
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JohnA on May 08 at 9:20 p.m.
Heaven's Gate and Dante's Peak, both filmed in or around Wallace, remain two of the most disappointing films ever made. I watched both films being made and never would have expected such incompetence from such promising productions. When you consider Michael Cimino was coming off of “The Deerhunter” when he made 'Gate' and had the backing of a major studio, Columbia, it was an amazing disaster.
The best part about Dante's Peak was watching the Silver Bridge at Enaville floating away in the flooding North Fork. It helped to make up for a ridiculous script that had very little scientific thought behind it.
If there was anything good to come from either film, it was the huge dollars spent in the Silver Valley during tough economic times. I'm hoping the next effort in our area becomes something watchable for something other than its infamy.
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