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alien landing site | Philadelphia | New York | Hood

Location, Location, Location

by J. Rentilly

Alien Landing Site
1. Katz’s Delicatessen
New York, New York

2. Timberline Lodge
Mount Hood, Oregon

3. Hotel Sidi Driss
Matmata, Tunisia

4. Devil’s Tower
Crook County, Wyoming

5. Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6. Quick Stop
Leonardo, New Jersey

7. The Bradbury Building
Los Angeles, California

A. America’s first National Monument is also the alien landing site in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

B. This is the site of all manner of hilarity and chaos in Kevin Smith’s breakthrough film, Clerks.

C. Here, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan experience an “I’ll have what she’s having” moment in When Harry Met Sally.

D. Rocky Balboa’s triumphant ascension in Rocky takes place on the stairway of this landmark.

E. This building is the haunted behemoth in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

F. This memorable location is the site of the climactic showdown between Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard and the murderous replicants in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.

G. This place serves as Luke Skywalker’s subterranean home in Star Wars.

With thanks to Tony Reeves, author of The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations, and Chris Beecham, editor of www.movielocationsguide.com.



Answers: 1. C, 2. E, 3. G, 4. A, 5. D, 6. B, 7. F


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Philadelphia | New York City | Meg Ryan | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Tunisia | Los Angeles | Oscar | Billy Crystal | Harrison Ford | California | New Jersey | New York | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Wyoming

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