Rhonda Lane on January 22nd, 2009

The trailer video for the CSI: Miami episode “And They’re Offed.” How does entertainment balance the need to tell an exciting story with the desire to be realistic? Let alone stay within a budget? An episode of the wildly popular TV show CSI: Miami that was set at a racetrack gave some members of an [...]

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Rhonda Lane on November 23rd, 2008

Early in the 2008 James Bond film “The Quantum of Solace” are scenes filmed at one of the 2007 runnings of the Palio di Siena. I used the plural “runnings” for good reason, which you’ll see later in the post. On the surface, the scenes shot at the Palio appear to be colorful backdrop in [...]

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Rhonda Lane on November 6th, 2008

Horses are back in a Bond movie. A major action scene in The Quantum of Solace was shot with the Palio di Sienna in the background. When have horses been part of the plot? Share on Facebook

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