the single greatest 1 LOCATION movie 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...