Best Hotel films ever?
 

I just watched the classic Grand Hotel starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and both John and Lionel Barrymore. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022958/

The neat thing to me is that 70 years later, life in grand hotels is nearly the same. A great line from the film...

What do you do at the Grand hotel? Eat, sleep, loaf around, flirt a little, dance a little. 100 doors leading into one hall, no one knows about the person next to you. And when you leave, someone occupies the room after you, lies in your bed…that’s the end.

That, and the bar that is about 2 feet higher than bars these days. And Joan Crawford saying no to a cocktail and ordering Absinthe instead. :D

I think it's the best hotel film ever. Any others?

The Shining




Edited to add links:

If anyone wants to book a room at "The Overlook Hotel":
http://www.stanleyhotel.com/

Background information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Hotel

Article: Haunted America: The Stanley Hotel

The beginning segment of Goldfinger, in Miami:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynoiBF7OjkI

"Avanti" filmed at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Ischia...^

And a topless Juliet Mills! ^^

Not quite as cheery, but it would have to be Hotel Rwanda. How it didn't get any Oscars is beyond me.

1408. I'm sure John Cusack got triple points for his stay at this property.

Agreed. But at least it received an impressive array of nominations.

One of my favorites, SOMEWHERE IN TIME with Christopher Reeves takes place in the Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island, Michigan USA. Love how they dressed it up to represent the late Victorian era, turn of the century lifestyle.

Lost in Translation.

I stumbled upon that movie not too long ago and liked it. Welcome to FT.

Significant parts of Elizabethtown were shot at The Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY... though I can't remember what it was called in the movie. The Brown Hotel is also the birthplace of the Hot Brown sandwich. Underrated movie and slightly overrated sandwich.

Plaza Suite
Love in the Afternoon

The Hotel Earl in Barton Fink was pleasant

Agree.

And going way back, White Christmas.

North By Northwest does some fancy hotel hopping.

I was going to say that one too, or its predecessor "Holiday Inn".

But sticking to my sociopath theme (and if we can include motels) -

- "Psycho" was a great film

(A few months ago I watched the unedited version dubbed in German while I was in Rome - and I must say Norman sounded great in German!).