Tremont Cineaste

I believe that I have now seen every full length Hol­ly­wood film that was at least par­tial­ly shot in Tremont. They are: The Deer Hunter, A Christ­mas Sto­ry and Amer­i­can Splen­dor. I watched The Deer Hunter last night, it was pret­ty weird see­ing what Stark­weath­er looked like back in the 1970s, before I‑490 cut the neigh­bor­hood in half. From what I could tell, they just used east­er­ly shots of St. Theo­do­sius’s and an exte­ri­or of Lemko Hall. Since I’ve nev­er been inside St. Theo’s or Lemko Hall I don’t know about the inte­ri­ors. Also, some of the neigh­bor­hood shots could have been shot in the parts of the ‘hood that are under 490. I’m still try­ing to find out where, exact­ly, the house from A Christ­mas Sto­ry is locat­ed. I know it is on W. 11th, south of 490, so maybe I’ll ride my bike over that way today and see if I can spy it out. Amer­i­can Splen­dor just had some exte­ri­ors of Tremont hous­es and an estab­lish­ing shot of St. Theo’s. This is prob­a­bly com­plete­ly bor­ing to any­one but me. That’s what I get for being a film geek.

7 thoughts on “Tremont Cineaste”

  1. andy of the lit­er­ary cafe has some vid-caps from a old route 66 episode that fea­tures tremont from 50 years ago. some­one taped it off of nick at night and they played it at the lit.
    here is the page.
    the christ­mas sto­ry house made news recent­ly when some cal­i­for­nia guy bought it and is turn­ing it into a musuem, the house is on row­ley ave. across from the row­ley inn.

  3. I was actu­al­ly quite geeked when I saw Amer­i­can Splen­dor, with all of it’s tremont shots. Genevieve and I had actu­al­ly stum­bled on the film­ing of it years back, in Lake­wood though. (it was at the Detroit the­ater and ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ was on the mar­quee). We steered clear of the crew though.

  4. I have a few shots of the St. Theo­do­sius inte­ri­or on my Flickr page (fol­low the crumbs from my main page). It was open for view­ing dur­ing the Tremont Arts Fest a few weeks back. Breath­tak­ing, even for those of us who don’t buy into orga­nized reli­gion.

    The Christ­mas Sto­ry house sold on eBay late last year. The address is 3159 W. 11th, near Row­ley. I did a dri­ve­by to check out the ‘hood for an out-of-town col­league who was half-seri­ous­ly think­ing about putting in a bid.

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