joshschutz Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 What are some good movies with photographers/photography in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin carron Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Blow Up (1966) - Swinging London and fashion photog david hemmings accidentally catches a murder on film. Quite good for the 1960's feeel but some hilarious enlarging practice using a large format camera in point and shoot mode! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Javkin Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Blowup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffery_pool Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 i like "Under Fire", especially the part where Nolte, taking no cover, photographs the plane while it strafes the rebel convoy he is riding in with machine gun fire "Salvador" with James Woods is good too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin carron Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 There is a film where Clark Gable is a newsreel photographer. I think it is 'Too Hot to handle' (1938). As I remember it Gable is seen using various cameras inclusing the Akeley 'Pancake' newsreel camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franklin_polk Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 "Rear Window" by Hitchcock with James Stewart, Grace Kelly, etc. There is also "War Photographer" with James Nachtwey, but that is a documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffm Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 The Omen! Sorry, just kidding :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_sanderson Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Does anyone know why only a censored version of Blow Up is available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_gerbehy1 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Photography plays a small part in "The Killing Fields" Good film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin carron Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 George, my guess is that 5 minutes has been removed from 'Blow Up' to get the 15 certification. The original was fairly racy for its time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 "City of God" is a great movie in which photography is an important element. In "The Public Eye," Joe Pesci is a photographer obviously based in part on Weegee (even including the car-trunk darkroom). Lots of neat vintage cameras show up in this movie too. The documentary "Born into Brothels" is about a photography project for poor kids in Calcutta, very nicely done. "The Wooden Camera" is a somewhat soapy but interesting South Aftican film in which a couple of kids find a body along with a gun and a video camera. One kid takes one, the other the other, etc. In "Memento," a person with a memory disorder tries to keep track of things with Polaroids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertshults Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 "fashion photog david hemmings accidentally catches a murder on film" Does he...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeitner300 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Dennis Hopper in "Apocalypse Now" is wearing some classic iron. "Full Metal Jacket" is another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clay2 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 I realy enjoyed 'Pecker'. A teenager who got a Canonet from his mom's thrift store and became famous in New York galleries. Nicknamed 'Pecker' because he 'pecked' at his food as a kid. Check out Steve Gandy's comments here: http://cameraquest.com/pecker.htm /Clay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randmcnatt Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Live A Little, Love A Little (1968) Elvis as a pin-up photographer. This and "Blow Up" inflated the expectations of an entire generation of photographers ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_sanderson Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Cuts to Blow Up. Thanks, Colin - I rather suspected that that was the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_reagan Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Did anyone catch that the set dresser in 'Rear Window' put the ultimate trophy for Stewart's photog character on an end-table behind his living room perch? A framed 8x10 Neg. of the mag cover he won some award for. bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Dale Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 "Harrison's Flowers", 2000. Andie MacDowell, Adrien Brody, David Strathairn. About photojournalists in a war zone. Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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