Settings: Part 41

Okay, my noir friends ... this could be a setting for something spooky and nefarious. Put on your best Chandler fedora and tell me: if this shot were part of a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 40

All that talk about film the other day put me in the mood for my favorite Glimpses game. This is your producer talking, my cinephile friends ... put on your director's caps and tell me if this setting were in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 39

Did you guys think I'd forgotten about my favorite game?

Slap on those director's caps and channel your inner auteur. I've given you the perfect setting ... just tell me, if this were part of a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 37

It's time to put on your director's caps, people. Tell me: if this were the setting for a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 36

It's been a really long time since I've put you guys to work. (I was just waiting for the right photo.)

So, put on your director's hats and tell me: If this were the setting for a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 35

I've wanted to play this game here for a while. So tell me, my darling readers with such interesting cinematic genius ... if this were the setting for a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 34

You may recognize this setting because I've shot pictures here before. There's something so wonderfully contradictory about noir shadows around an almost century old kids' water fountain. It's almost enough to wonder...

...if this were the location for a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 33

Here's a new twist on my old favorite...

I happened upon these kids shooting a movie outside the library the other day. What do you think their movie is about?

Close Up

I love the front door of the Eddie Park house. It's just so cinematic. And speaking of cinematic, check out my latest column at Patch, which should be posted sometime before lunch Pacific Daylight Time. It's all about filming in South Pasadena. (See? I'll bet you all thought I was going to ask you to play the "if this were a setting in a movie, what would happen here" game. Well, now that you mention it...)

Settings: Part 32

It's an alley so picturesque it makes me wish I had reason to make a film there. Something with Leonardo DiCaprio in a fedora. Something with a seductive French actress running from an obsessed detective. Something with a psychic homeless woman sitting on a Mexican blanket.

Wait a minute... I'm playing my own favorite game. And that means you all have to play along, too...

If this were the setting for a scene in a movie, what do you think would happen here?

Settings: Part 31

I can't decide what we would find beyond that gate, but whatever it is, I'll bet it would make a great setting for a movie. You know what that means, my dear readers-with-cinematic-brainpower: if you were directing a movie scene set at this location, what would happen here? (I'm thinking either something with fairies and enchantment -- maybe a contemporary retelling of Midsummer Night's Dream -- or a party scene involving a 1970s wooden hot tub. There just has to be one of those back there...)

On another note:
Be sure to check out the latest addition to the City Daily Photo family of blogs: Mammoth Lakes Daily Photo by our most beloved friend (and always a Southern California girl no matter what location) The Chieftess.

Settings: Part 30

It's no wonder South Pas acts as a backlot for Hollywood. Not only does our city play a recurring role in film and television as America's hometown, but at ten minutes from downtown Los Angeles it still has a few unpaved rural pockets like this one. So... (you all know what's coming) if you were going to set a scene for a movie here, what would happen?

Settings: Part 29

This house is too good not to use as a setting for a movie, if only for my favorite blog game! So, lets channel our inner Van Sant, Soderbergh and von Trier ... if this were the setting for a scene in a film, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 28

You know I can't resist my favorite game. I'm thinking something from the bourbon-soaked pages of James M. Cain or Raymond Chandler. But you tell me, clever readers, if this were the setting for a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 27

With all the film crews shooting around South Pas this week I just can't resist another round of my favorite game. So tell me, my aspiring Hitchcocks, Weirs and Fassbinders, if this were the setting for a scene in a movie ... what would happen here?

Settings: Part 26

I hadn't planned on playing my favorite game again so soon, but when I drove past the library and saw the tree from yesterday's post being used as a backdrop for yet another South Pas film shoot, I couldn't resist.

Since this actually is a setting for a movie, what do you think the scene is about?

Settings: Part 25

I just can't decide on a character for this place...

Serial killer with multiple personalities?
Manifesto-writing recluse?
Rural cousin of the Big Lebowski?

Then again, what do you think? Just like all the other times I've forced you to put on your director's hats -- if this were the setting for a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 24

There's a story here. Maybe more than one. But don't worry, I won't ask my clever readers to concoct their own versions...

Wait a minute, of course I will! (It's what I do!)

So... if this were the setting for a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 23

It's that time again, would-be filmmakers and general tall tale tellers! If this were the setting for a scene in a movie, what would happen here?

Settings: Part 22

Okay, everybody, it's time for another round of my favorite game. If this mysterious private drive were the setting for a scene in a movie ... what would happen here?