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Many '''movies''' have been produced (in part) on [[:Category:Campuses|Columbia's campuses]].
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Many '''movies''' have been produced (in part) on [[:Category:Campuses|Columbia's campuses]]. Unfortuately, few of them ever explicitly reference the university's name, thanks to the anality of the [[Office of General Counsel]].
  
 
== Movies filmed on campus ==
 
== Movies filmed on campus ==
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* ''Everyone Says I Love You''
 
* ''Everyone Says I Love You''
 
* ''Ghostbusters''
 
* ''Ghostbusters''
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:Legend has it that royalties from the filming of this movie pay for the frequent reseeding of [[South Lawn]]
 
* ''Ghostbusters II''
 
* ''Ghostbusters II''
 
* ''The Graduate''  
 
* ''The Graduate''  
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:There's controversy over whether this was set at Columbia, filmed at Columbia, or whether it has nothing to do with Columbia at all.
 
* ''Hannah and Her Sisters''
 
* ''Hannah and Her Sisters''
 
:In one scene, Woody Allen's character takes a ponderous walk past ''[[The Thinker]]''. In another, one of the characters meets her new boyfriend, a Columbia professor, while strolling to class up [[The Steps]]
 
:In one scene, Woody Allen's character takes a ponderous walk past ''[[The Thinker]]''. In another, one of the characters meets her new boyfriend, a Columbia professor, while strolling to class up [[The Steps]]
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* ''The Producers: The Movie Musical''
 
* ''The Producers: The Movie Musical''
 
* ''P.S.''
 
* ''P.S.''
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:The main character is a [[School of the Arts]] admissions officer who has an affair with an applicant because he reminds her of her dead high school crush
 
* ''Simon''
 
* ''Simon''
 
* ''Spider-Man''
 
* ''Spider-Man''

Revision as of 16:52, 27 February 2008

Many movies have been produced (in part) on Columbia's campuses. Unfortuately, few of them ever explicitly reference the university's name, thanks to the anality of the Office of General Counsel.

Movies filmed on campus

  • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
  • Altered States
  • Anger Management
Lerner Hall's exterior was used to depict a hospital in Boston
  • Awakenings
  • Black and White
  • Casino Royale (2006), Lerner Hall ramps
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Columbia Bookstore filled in for a Long Island Barnes & Noble
  • Everyone Says I Love You
  • Ghostbusters
Legend has it that royalties from the filming of this movie pay for the frequent reseeding of South Lawn
  • Ghostbusters II
  • The Graduate
There's controversy over whether this was set at Columbia, filmed at Columbia, or whether it has nothing to do with Columbia at all.
  • Hannah and Her Sisters
In one scene, Woody Allen's character takes a ponderous walk past The Thinker. In another, one of the characters meets her new boyfriend, a Columbia professor, while strolling to class up The Steps
  • Hitch
Will Smith's character meets a girl after tripping on The Steps
  • K-PAX
  • Kinsey
Partly filmed in Havemeyer 309
  • The Mirror Has Two Faces
  • Malcolm X
  • Manhattan
  • Marathon Man
  • Mona Lisa Smile
Havemeyer 309 is used to depict a lecture hall at Wellesley
  • New York Minute
The Olsen Twins race across New York to reach Columbia in the nick of time. During filming, a giant clock was hung on the facade of Low Library
  • Porn 'n Chicken
  • The Producers: The Movie Musical
  • P.S.
The main character is a School of the Arts admissions officer who has an affair with an applicant because he reminds her of her dead high school crush
  • Simon
  • Spider-Man
Low Library plays host to an advanced research lab, where Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider
  • Spider-Man 2
Peter Parker takes a physics class in Hamilton Hall
  • Stay
  • The Nanny Diaries
Scarlet Johannsen's character sits on one of the fountains on Low Plaza after applying to the Columbia graduate program in Anthropology
  • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
One of the characters is a Columbia math professor who spends time watching students at play on Low Plaza and drives one of his students to suicide

Top filming locations

  • Inner quadrangle of Union Theological Seminary
  • Havemeyer main lecture room
  • Steps & facade of Low