Scouting Film Locations From Your Santa Barbara Vacation Rental
Santa Barbara vacation rental guests are often curious about film locations, and with good reason. There are a lot of iconic Santa Barbara locations that crop up in movies and TV shows. Read on to find out why our fair city is the setting of choice for so many สถานที่ถ่ายหนัง
popular productions and how you can recognize and visit famous filming locations in and around the Santa Barbara area.
A lot of visitors feel a strong sense of familiarity or belonging the first time they explore Santa Barbara. We’re not going to discount anyone’s claims of psychic powers or a past life lived on America’s Riviera, but chances are more like that they’ve seen one of the over 200 different movies and TV shows filmed in whole or in part here over the last 100 years.
Don’t leave your vacation rental in search of locations made famous on the silver screen until you read the Santa Barbara Film Commission’s full list. You’ve probably seen at least one or more of these popular productions:
2009 It’s Complicated
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean III
2006 There Will Be Blood
2006 Psych
2006 The Bachelor
2006 Top Chef 2, Bravo
2005 Monk
2005 Oprah Winfrey Show
2004 Flight of the Phoenix
2004 Monster-in-Law
2004 Sideways
2003 Hidalgo
2003 Seabiscuit
2003 Sorority Life
2001 The X-files
2000 Bedazzled
1999 Double Jeopardy
1998 Star Trek: Insurrection
1996 The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996 G.I. Jane
1996 Face/Off
1995 Nixon
1994 A Walk in the Clouds
1994 Congo
1994 Young Indy/Hollywood Follies
1993 Pelican Brief
1990 Rocketeer
1984 Scarface
1980 The Postman Always Rings Twice
1978 The Frisco Kid
1967 The Graduate
1964 Batman pilot
1923 The Ten Commandments
1914 The Perils of Pauline
It’s Complicated
The most recent high-profile film to come out of our region was last year’s Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin romantic comedy It’s Complicated.
The film’s director Nancy Meyers chose Santa Barbara for a definite reason that any tourist or native film enthusiast will be able to relate to. In an interview with Santa Barbara Magazine, Meyers said that “Santa Barbara felt right for so many reasons – the natural beauty everywhere you look, the state of mind I feel when I’m there, the calm…It feels as close to the good life as you can get.”
