From the movie ‘No’, set in 1980’s Chile…
And tv show ‘Girls’ …
From Homeland…
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple
Transparent
X-Files, John Doe
The Intruders
The Intruders
Toast of London (after losing his mobile at an audition)
Niagra
As in the 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe… There are a few telephone calls made in this film and here are three, including a phone on a boat.
Change with the times
When was the last time you used a payphone? For New Yorkers, the answer is probably one they can’t remember, so the city today announced it will replace those payphones with up to 10,000 new kiosks armed with free gigabit Wi-Fi…
More viewing
Perhaps I watch too much TV but here are some more from the past.
Dark Skies (1996)
Noah’s Castle (1979)
Some of our recent viewings
Headhunters (2011)
Utopia (2014)
A single man (2009)
TV
Not technically a classic as such but it will be with time… Fargo.
Fargo (2014)
An old tv series…(update Oct 2014: I watched the first 3 episodes of Dark Skies via Amazon Prime subscription service. Then all of a sudden the series was no longer available – not for free and not to pay for. No idea why. I have since talked to another who has experienced the same thing with other shows. Screw you Amazon.)
Dark Skies (1996)
Journalists and Spies
A couple from ‘All the President’s Men’ (1976) staring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman…
And again with ‘Person of Interest’ (season 2, episode 22, 2014) – where even in today’s world of mobile phones the pay phone plays an integral part in the plot (and pay phones in Manhattan are guarded by g-men)…
Film and tv
I hadn’t realised that Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) involved using a phone box as a time machine. More recent tv has a phone being used as … a phone, in True Detective:
An old one from the X-files (‘Pusher’, Season 2):
and some more…
Ok so I understand why I see phone boxes in older tv shows and films, but they are still a feature in many current plots such as The Blacklist (USA), The Code (Australia) and Being Human (USA). You’d be forgiven for thinking that the popularity of the mobile phone would mean that the phone box would disappear from many cultural products, but not so.
The Blacklist (S2)
The Code
Being Human (USA, S3)
The X-Files – The Amazing Maleeni
The X-Files – Trevor
The X-Files – Roadrunners
The X-Files – Surekill
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