THE KÜTNE READER

A draft script of the Steve Martin movie filmed in Nelson in 1986 that I found on eBay is much different than the finished product.

One of the chief set pieces of the movie Housekeeping, filmed in the fall of 1986 in and around Nelson and Castlegar, was a huge wooden railway trestle. The movie and novel of the same name that it was based on are set in fictional Fingerbone, Idaho, which is based on Sandpoint, Idaho, where author Marilynne Robinson was born. (And which coincidentally became a sister city to Nelson in 2013.) In the first few pages of the novel, Robinson’s protagonist, Ruth, describes her gra

Snow Falling on Cedars, the movie filmed partly in Greenwood in 1998, left a legacy of faux phantom signs.

Here’s a gallery of photos I took on March 3, 2003 during filming in Rossland of the Kurt Russell movie Miracle.