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I love how google maps zooms in to orthotopic (graphic?) photos of the buildings. Maybe Catching Features could, like, fade into real footage from a movie for a section of a leg, if the O-avatar happened to be running the same route as, say, Matt Damon, in that real place.
I wonder if you could construct a Catching Features environment/background from the pictures of Venice in Google Maps. You have two sides of most buildings; just reflect seen sides onto unseen sides to complete the graphics. Then, when you're running along the same canal or bridge or back alley as James Bond in one of the three (or more) Bond movies shot in Venice, you segue into that footage for that stretch.
Maybe when I'm there I can shoot footage of every street, in both directions.
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*available instant-play in Netflix
-only physical DVD
!not available at all
Training movies for Venice Street-O, sourced from Wikipedia as well as some other online list that was returned high on the google:
-Merchant of Venice (R), 2004, with Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph fiennes
*Dangerous Beauty (R), 1998, with Jacqueline Bisset, Rufus Sewell, Catherine McCormack. Period romance 16th century Venice; based on true story.
-Summertime, 1955. Katharine Hepburn. woman traveling alone; falls for married antiques dealer in Venice.
*Bread and Tulips (PG13), 2000. Italian with subtitles. This is the one about the housewife left behind when her family rides off on the tour bus without her.
-Only You (PG), 1994. romantic comedy.
-Rick Steves: Italy's Cities 2000-2009. Has a section on Venice.
*Ancient Mysteries: The Miraculous Canals of Venice, 2005. Narrated by Leonard Nemoy.
-Casino Royale, 2006, James Bond movie.
*From Russia with Love, James Bond
*Moonraker, James Bond 1979
!The Anonymous Venetian, 1970.
-Othello, 1995, with Kenneth Branagh
-Only You, 1994, romantic comedy
-The Italian Job, 2003 heist film.
!Nenu Naa Rakshasi - Indian - definitely want to see this - 2011 romantic action film.
-The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, superhero film adaptation, 2003.
-A Little Romance, 1979 romantic comedy, Laurence Olivier and Diane Lane
*The Honey Pot, 1967 crime comedy film.
[not yet available but in the Netflix database] Everyone says I Love You, 1996, Woody Allen. musical.
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
-Italian for Beginners, 2000 Danish romantic comedy. The film was made by the austere principles of the Dogme 95 movement, including the use of hand held video cameras and natural lighting, and is known as Dogme XII.
-Casanova (R), 2005, Heath Ledger
-Just Married, PG13, 2003.
-The Thief Lord, 2006 family film. I liked the book.
*The Wings of the Dove, 1997 drama.
!This is the Night, 1932 comedy. Cary Grant's feature film debut; he didn't like it.
-The Tourist, 2010 romantic thriller wiht Angelina Jolie & Johnny Depp.
!The Venetian Affair, 1967 spy film
!The Man Without Desire, 1923 British silent film. directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ivor Novello, who also co-produced the film along with Miles Mander. The film was Brunel's feature-length directorial debut and has been described as "one of the stranger films to emerge from Britain in the 1920s"