Notting Hill
The first in my collection of London-based movies. This one has Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts and is set in Notting Hill, which is the neighborhood I lived in when I studied in London.
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Sliding Doors
Another movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow. And set in London.
Shakespeare in Love
with Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Geoffrey Rush. London in Elizabethan times.
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Starring Bill Murray Entry to follow later, this is a placeholder so that I can keep track of movies I run across or own which are set in London or are somehow associated with the city.
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Technically this movie doesn’t have a direct connection to London itself. But it is set in England and for a period of what seems like several months, Elizabeth Benett’s older sister Jane is away in London staying with her Aunt and Uncle. It is also where Wickham and Lydia disappear, temporarily, into the underground, before [...]
I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles
Written in the first person from Elizabeth’s point of view, it is as if she is looking back on her life from her early teens through her 70s and retelling her life story. The first half of the book I couldn’t wait to read. During the second half it got long in parts and somewhat [...]
Londontown
My fascination and semi-obsessive relationship with London began almost as an accident. I was approaching the end of my senior year in high school and a friend of mine told me his father was taking a group of college students on a Study Abroad in London for the upcoming summer term and fall semester. There [...]
