Gas Station Autumns
So, it occurred to me in 2020 that each three years my Autumn (and/or late summer) kinda revolves around gas stations, loneliness and whatnot, movies and series included. And odd observation, but I'm gonna embrace it. Not that I'm not visiting gas stations rather frequently in other years or seasons, but those Gas Station Autumns are truly special times of transformation.
Previously attempted to document as Gas Station September. This list will include all of that and beyond.
2014: 3 (2 music videos and 1 feature film/episode (pilots are borderline cases)
2017: 19 (8 feature films, 8 TV episodes, 3 short films including 1 music video)
2020: 12 (4 feature films, 2 TV episodes, 5 short films including 2 music videos and 2 commercials)
2021 (Special One): TBA
2022 (Extra Special One, I guess): TBA
Previously attempted to document as Gas Station September. This list will include all of that and beyond.
2014: 3 (2 music videos and 1 feature film/episode (pilots are borderline cases)
2017: 19 (8 feature films, 8 TV episodes, 3 short films including 1 music video)
2020: 12 (4 feature films, 2 TV episodes, 5 short films including 2 music videos and 2 commercials)
2021 (Special One): TBA
2022 (Extra Special One, I guess): TBA
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- DirectorEric WatsonStarsAnna-Marie GascoigneChris LowePet Shop BoysMusic video for Pet Shop Boys: So HardSeptember 2014
Gas Station Scene(s): Okay, there's none in sight, really, but by the look of locations it's like always around the corner. It just fits the vibe to well not to include here. - DirectorCyriak HarrisStarsFrankie ValliThe Four SeasonsFrankie Valli and The Four Seasons experience odd adventures and go to space as they perform "Beggin'" in a surreal music video.October 2014: I was actually living near a gas station in Kyiv for a few weeks.
31 October 2014: I filmed a gas station from a window myself that day.
Gas Station Scene(s): Another one. On the plus side I filmed a gas station myself on that very day, so... - DirectorRobert IscoveStarsJohn Wesley ShippAmanda PaysAlex DésertA laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.17 November 2014: A particularly memorable, if minor, moment on a gas station between Kyiv and Irpin.
30 November 2014: A rewatch of the pilot, but a welcome one.
Gas Station Scene(s): The Dark Riders' hideout has their own gas pumps, that counts. - DirectorGerald KarglStarsErwin LederRobert Hunger-BühlerSilvia RyderA troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.8 August 2017 (I know it's too much of a stretch to include that early of August, but it was kind cold that year and this movie is super relevant).
Gas Station Scene(s): Scenes near beginning and then ending of that movie which occur in a cafeteria of a Shell gas station are not only superb, but also very much relatable. My own visits to a particular shell gas station that year looked virtually identical. - DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanLeslie BergerRobert BroskiGotta light?16 August 2017 (Yes, I'm continuing the trend; it's all an approximation anyway)
Gas Station Scene(s): Convenience Store has gas pumps, so it is a gas station on its own. Some of the very memorable scenes are around this structure in this episode. - DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanMädchen AmickDana AshbrookThere's fire where you are going.24-25 August 2017 (Yes, I'm continuing the trend; it's all an approximation anyway)
Gas Station Scene(s): Big Ed's Gas Farm is mentioned and Convenience Store is featured. - DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanAlon AboutboulKate AldenWhat story is that, Charlie?24-25 August 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Big Ed's Gas Farm is seen in a terrific end credits scene, which I also find very relatable. - DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanJay AasengEric Ray AndersonWe are like the dreamer.24-25 August 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Convenience Store! - DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanJay AasengJoe AdlerThere's some fear in letting go.25 August 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): And a tad more of Big Ed's Gas Farm. - DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanChrysta BellJim BelushiNo knock, no doorbell.28 August 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Convenience Store is mentioned. - DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonEdward FurlongA cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.30 August 2017 (theatrical screening, no less!)
Gas Station Scene(s): There is at least one in the middle of the movie, where many important character development moments occur before Mexico. - DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanJay AasengDana AshbrookThe past dictates the future.5 September 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Convenience Store appears for the last time, so far. - DirectorDanny JelinekStarsBryan CondonEmelita T. GonzalezMichal StempijThree stories from Mulchtown: a man has frog problems; snacks are found; police arrest a worm.9 September 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Amazingly unsettling one with one of the protagonists feeling a traveling bag with gasoline on one and being mocked. - DirectorBenny HillJohn RobinsStarsBenny HillNicole ShelbyDouglas HillA half-hour silent film, starring Benny Hill in a tale of unrequited love.9 September 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): An all-service car station, but kinda counts. - DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsJohn CarpenterRita VolkA girl hitching a ride as her car is broken stumbles upon a familiar Plymouth Fury.14-15 September 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): There is at least one seen faintly in the background in the beginning. - DirectorAlbert PyunStarsTom SizemoreDennis HopperSteven SeagalAfter a San Francisco detective's partner is murdered by Northern Irish terrorists, the officer joins the bomb squad in order to bring them to justice.22 September 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): A phone conversation and an explosion occurring on one. - DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsChristopher LambertSean ConneryClancy BrownAn immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".5-6 October 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Seen in the background in some of the city shots. - DirectorMcGStarsChristian BaleSam WorthingtonAnton YelchinIn 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?14 October 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Most of them totally abandoned, but there are a few in this movie. - DirectorAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsDenzel WashingtonMila KunisRay StevensonA drifter fights his way across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic America while protecting a sacred book that holds the secrets to humanity's salvation.28 October 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Very similar to previous instance. - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTom HardyCharlize TheronNicholas HoultIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.12 November 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): This one has stationary pumps in the hideouts, but that counts. - DirectorTom ShanklandStarsJon BernthalEbon Moss-BachrachAmber Rose RevahFormer Marine Frank Castle takes the law into his own hands while struggling to come to terms with his traumatic past.26 November 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): I'm pretty sure I saw some in the background. - DirectorSergey A.Vladislav KrivenchukStarsVladislav KrivenchukSergey A.Viktor MurzikovYear 2020. Famine has begun in the world, and superpowers have begun to look for food. Russia has found a whole planet of food. Year 2024. Russia sends an ordinary clerk into space to the planet of food to save all of humanity.30 November 2017
Gas Station Scene(s): Some could be seen in the main title sequence. - DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsFernande AlbanyAntonichBlondetA man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special car, who claims that he can get there in just two hours. Complications ensue.2 September 2020: visited the closest gas station I frequent at 10PM, devouring coffee and fries.
3 September 2020: So, I was a tad slow to begin this marathon because it was conceived in mere last days of August and I needed some additional research. As best way to re-check was the IMDb keyword I decided it can't be much better than to start with the earliest title with a gas station I could've find. Georges Méliès is always a pleasure to watch and it's fascinating how many effects and techniques he was able to conceive, effectively propelling cinema to its modern state.
Gas Station Scene(s): Second scene of the short is two drivers visiting the garage, which doubles as a filling station and having as much petrol as they could. They than accidentally run over a policeman and try and fail to reanimate him by pumping air into him, after which he explodes. If it sounds weird and surreal, well... It's a very early silent comedy, so it's entitled. - DirectorKathryn BigelowMonty MontgomeryStarsWillem DafoeJ. Don FergusonRobert GordonTrouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.3 September: I love that movie. It's not really that eventful, but the way things are filmed, edited, acted and set to music are lovely (no pun intended) and superbly suspenseful. A super-solid, stylish directorial debut, if in a tandem and both Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery got good careers afterwards, although latter as a producer. Equally great debut for Willem Dafoe in his first starring and credited role (and he will pop up in this marathon at least twice more, if things go as planned!). Movies like this are primarily what I had in mind for that marathon, but I'm in for surprises in different areas, as well. You never know what is waiting for you in the gas station. Every genre can use it.
Gas Station Scene(s): A lot of those: some of the primary locations include a diner and a rented garage, both of them with handy gas stations attached. That combo of gas station and diner is a kind of iconic image of 1950's Americana. - DirectorDavid LynchOne of a set of commercials for the Parisienne cigarette brand made by leading film directors.4 September 2020: Was reminded of that when I discussed on Dino Drac After Dark that Convenience Store from Twin Peaks (2017) is also a gas station, technically. Such is one depicted in this earlier effort by David Lynch. His commercials are brilliant short films and this one is no exception.
Gas Station Scene(s): Whole commercial is set on one.
4 September 2020: A brief sunset visit to the same aforementioned gas station. A cup of coffee and not exactly the mood to appreciate all of that, sadly.