The heat is on! Summer is really making it\u2019s presence felt in the Northern Hemisphere and this week sees us officially welcoming in the new season with the passing of the equinox, and the shortest night of the year.<\/p>\n
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Nothing better than preparing a cold drink, sitting in front of the fan with the blinds down and watching a summer movie. Here\u2019s our pick of the best film locations in summer movies to inspire you to dig out some classics or discover them for the first time.<\/p>\n
–\u00a0Las Ramblas<\/a>,\u00a0Gaudi landmarks<\/a>\u00a0and a dozen other locations in\u00a0Vicky Cristina Barcelona<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n –\u00a0<\/em>Catalan country retreats in\u00a0La Garrotxa<\/a>\u00a0to transport you back to your childhood in Berlinale winner\u00a0Estiu 1993<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n –\u00a0<\/em>Martha\u2019s Vineyard<\/a>\u00a0forms the perfect holiday town backdrop in\u00a0Jaws<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n –\u00a0<\/em>Los Monegros desert<\/a>\u00a0and the iconic, black bull sign in\u00a0Jamon, Jamon<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>one ofPenelope Cruz Javier Bardem\u2019s first films together.<\/p>\n – Julia Roberts\u2019\u00a0Bali<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Eat, Pray, Love<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n –\u00a0<\/em>Greenwich Village<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>in\u00a0Rear Window<\/em><\/a>, not actually a location as it was a set built especially with a sophisticated lighting system and special drainage to accommodate the night and rain scenes.<\/p>\n –\u00a0La Seine<\/a>\u00a0and Paris at night in\u00a0Before Sunrise<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n –\u00a0<\/em>Cypress Gardens<\/a>, South Carolina, for the lake scenes in Cassevetes\u2019\u00a0The Notebook<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The trained birds were brought in especially.<\/p>\n –\u00a0Kennywood amusement park<\/a>, where Jesse Eisenberg steals the show in American teen pic\u00a0Adventureland<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n –\u00a01950\u2019s Costa Brava<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>with Dirk Bogarde in\u00a0The Spanish Gardener<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The heat is on! Summer is really making it\u2019s presence felt in the Northern Hemisphere and this week sees us officially welcoming in the new season with the passing of the equinox, and the shortest night of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":3413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}