You can see the wood panels again in Julian Simpson’s 1999 conspiracy thriller The Criminal – which also features the Town Hall’s austerely deco entrance hall and exterior, as do Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering (the hall becomes the courthouse in which Jude Law faces up to his responsibilities to give Juliette Binoche and her son a second chance in life) and Run Fatboy Run (where it’s the London marathon office). With a bit of dressing, it was transformed into the glamorous deco office of ‘Bijou’ record company supremo Eddie Izzard in Velvet Goldmine. The same office became Benicio Del Toro’s tailor’s in another Guy Ritchie film, Snatch. The wood-panelled interior, though, is Bethnal Green Town Hall, Cambridge Heath Road at Patriot Square. Only a few hundred yards away, Blackman’s Shoes, 42-44 Cheshire Street, on the corner of Grimsby Street, is the exterior of ‘Hatchet’ Harry’s office (“Harry Lonsdale: Porn King”). Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels film location: The office of ‘Hatchet’ Harry, porn king: Blackman’s Shoes, Cheshire Street, Shoreditch, London E2 Theo ( Clive Owen) meets the mysteriously pregnant Kee ( Claire-Hope Ashitey) at Fleet Street Hill after following Julian ( Julianne Moore) from the bus in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. ![]() 1, but where the gang gives Dave ( Ray Winstone) a serious going-over in Antonia Bird’s tough heist film Face. It’s not only where the Young Gangster ( Paul Bettany) drops a taxi onto the recalcitrant debtor in Gangster No. The stretch of cobbled street in front of the arch is serious testosterone territory. It's set, of course, around the seedier-looking parts of London, starting off in the east of the city, just off Brick Lane.Įddie ( Nick Moran) and Bacon ( Jason Statham) leg it down the rather intimidating steps to the railway bridge at the end of the tunnel on Pedley Street after the law descends on their street stall scam at the opening. Before his laddishness became overwhelmingly irritating, Guy Ritchie assembled this enjoyable darkish comedy from bits of Performance, The Long Good Friday, Pulp Fiction and The Italian Job among scores of other films.
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