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OT Best Movie w/ a Photographer
Adam Vogler, Photographer
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Pittsburg | KS | USA | Posted: 1:25 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> Thought that I'd start a thread dealing with something other than ethics, Canon V Nikon, my $4K camera doesn't work, or the fact that we're all getting screwed by the accounting department and ask what everyone's favorite movie with a photographer as a key character is.
I'm talking about fictional films and they don't necessarily have to be about photography just have a photographer in them.
My personal favorite has to be Rear Window. (which I happened to catch last night, thus this thread)
You have to give Jimmy Stewart character credit for getting a broken leg looking for an interesting angle. I also like the compulsive people watching aspect of him. As photographers and journalists I think we tend to become rather acute observers of people.
Frankies House about Tim Page would be a close second. What does everyone else think?
P.S. Bonus points to anyone who can ID the camera/lens that Jimmy Stewart uses in the film. It seems to be an SLR to me but I can't tell the manufacturer. |
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Christian del Rosario, Photographer
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 1:49 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> Well, it's not a movie, but there's a music video by New Order called "Here to Stay" which seems to be based on their encounters with an aspiring green paparazzo back in their Joy Division days. Even if you don't know New Order or Joy Devision, it's an artsy B/W video which has a storyline involving a photographer. Worth a look and really well done IMHO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjwXXCJs7PU |
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Christian del Rosario, Photographer
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 1:50 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> Typo...I meant Joy "Division"...I really wish we could edit our posts....*sigh* |
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Garrett Davis, Photographer
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Cedar City | UT | US | Posted: 2:26 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> The Omen....although the photographer ends up getting his head chopped off. Why do the photographers always get it the worst? (Saw....another good movie where the photographer gets it) |
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Vasha Hunt, Photographer
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Opelika | AL | USA | Posted: 2:50 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> Salvadore - Give your life for the shot. |
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 3:13 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> Pecker |
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Michael McNamara, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Lincoln | NE | USA | Posted: 3:28 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> My favorite is Batman. Even though Vicki Vale was about the worst photographer in the history of photojournalism. |
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Greg Ferguson, Photographer
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Scottsdale | Az | USA | Posted: 3:34 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> The Bridges of Madison County. The book is good too. |
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Hal Smith, Photographer
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Sedalia | MO | USA | Posted: 3:51 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> Adam,
The camera is a Leica M3 with a 300f4 and a reflex housing.
Hal |
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Jeff Gritchen, Photographer
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Long Beach | CA | USA | Posted: 3:53 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> SPIDERMAN - Peter Parker!!!! |
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David A. Cantor, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 4:06 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> Hal,
In the movie stills in my Merlin, the lens Stewart is holding in two publicity stills is a Heinz Kilfitt 400mm f/5.6 serial No. 220-0190 and it is mounted on a SLR and not a Leica. I can't read the camera name although it looks like an Exakta. |
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Chris Bergin, Photographer
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Muncie | IN | USA | Posted: 4:22 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> City of God, one of the best films I have seen. |
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Greg Ferguson, Photographer
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Scottsdale | Az | USA | Posted: 4:25 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> "City of God"
Yes, an excellent movie too. Very hard hitting and inspiring. |
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William Maner, Photographer
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Biloxi | MS | USA | Posted: 4:32 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> There are several, but Pecker stands out because it's quite a comedy.
I'd also have to say Bridges Of Madison County. Clint Eastwood's portrayal of National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid is memorable because it was very different from the characters Eastwood has played in the past.
One really strange photographer movie that I never quite understood was the British film from 1966 entitled "Blowup". It was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. |
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Max Waugh, Photographer
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Bothell | WA | USA | Posted: 4:36 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> City of God would be my first choice, though I dunno if it falls as much into the fiction category as the other films mentioned.
Max |
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William Maner, Photographer
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Biloxi | MS | USA | Posted: 4:41 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> Also..I forgot to add another movie that involved a photographer.. "Pretty Baby" from 1978.. It was actress Brooke Shields' first major motion picture role.. She played a 12-year-old prostitute in New Orleans' infamous Storyville district in 1917. The film is about photographer E.J. Bellocq and his photography of Storyville prostitutes.
Bellocq's work represents some of the most famous images found in the books of photographic history. |
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Fj Hughes, Photographer, Assistant
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Baltimore | MD | USA | Posted: 4:43 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"
It's where the term Paparazzi was coined.
Great topic btw. |
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Christina Barany, Photographer
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Arlington | TX | United States | Posted: 8:13 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> "Born into brothels" by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski is such an inspiring film. Not only did Zana have amazing access and relationships in the brothels. She also did something good for the commmunity by teaching a photography class for the children who had no other chance to suceed in life. It won th Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature last year. |
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Ramsay de Give, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Santa Fe | NM | USA | Posted: 8:38 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> city of god |
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Nuno Gonçalves, Photographer
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Braga | Portugal | | Posted: 9:22 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> A Cidade de Deus é um filme fabuloso, e ainda por cima baseado numa história veridica. Há uma frase que para mim ficará para sempre pois relembra-me uma viagem a Sheffield: "Dédéu o caralho! Meu nome é Zé Pequeno!"
Great movie... |
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Walter Calahan, Photographer
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Westminster | MD | USA | Posted: 9:27 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> One Hour Photo
Apocalypse Now
Pecker |
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Greg Cooper, Photo Editor
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Ventura | CA | USA | Posted: 9:29 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> Under Fire (1983), "I don't take sides, I take pictures." Russell Price (played by Nick Nolte).
However, The Public Eye (1992) was good too. I love the scene where Leon Bernstein (played by Joe Pesci) drives around looking for images and freezes moments in his mind. The movie is very loosely modeled after Weegee.
--Greg |
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David Seelig, Photographer
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Hailey | ID | USA | Posted: 9:36 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> Blow Up is anything even close |
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Karsten Moran, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Brian Mount, Student/Intern
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Simi Valley | CA | USA | Posted: 10:12 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> Paparazzi would have to be the worst movie featuring a photographer...I give it two thumbs down |
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Matthias Krause, Photographer
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Brooklyn | NY | USA | Posted: 10:15 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> Another one for "Under Fire" here |
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Chris Stanley, Photographer
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Lansdale | PA | USA | Posted: 11:21 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> Road to Perdition...creeeeeeepy |
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Oscar Sosa, Photographer
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Jacksonville | FL | USA | Posted: 11:39 PM on 07.28.07 |
| ->> Rear Window. Hitchcock directed, starred Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Academy award nominations out the wazoo. |
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Geoff Miller, Photographer
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Portage | MI | USA | Posted: 11:58 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> "Apocalypse Now"
Nuts! Beat me to it. Classic image of Dennis Hopper with a neck full of Nikon F's in that one! |
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Jared Dort, Photographer
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The Wu | AZ | usa | Posted: 11:59 PM on 07.28.07 |
->> The camera was a Exakta Varex IIa. In the movie still Dave has, I believe, the camera name has been blacked out at the top. There wasn't a model with a black top until after 1954, so my guess is the name and model was removed.
Hitchcock directed the entire movie from Jeff's (Stewart) apartment, communicating by radio via earpieces.
Great movie, one of my favorites hands down. |
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Matt Brown, Photographer
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Fullerton | CA | USA | Posted: 12:46 AM on 07.29.07 |
| ->> City of God and Rear Window. |
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Max Bittle, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Springfield | IL | USA | Posted: 1:22 AM on 07.29.07 |
| ->> i'm going to have to go with Blood Diamond. jennifer connelly with a leica..... |
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Thomas Meredith, Photographer, Assistant
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Austin | TX | | Posted: 2:07 AM on 07.29.07 |
->> Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
[In the Studio]
"Show me love. Smashing! You're an animal. You're a tiger. Be a tiger, baby!
You're great! You're Grrrrrr-eat! You're Tony, be corn flakes,
baby, be frosted. Now be a lemur, baby! You're a ring-tailed lemur...
...and I'm spent!" |
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Tim Kupsick, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Bozeman | MT | USA | Posted: 2:19 AM on 07.29.07 |
| ->> City of God, best photographer film I have ever seen. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Live HVN : Work SFO-NYC | | | Posted: 2:29 AM on 07.29.07 |
->> Well since Frankie's House isn't fiction I don't know if it counts for this list......but for me it's Frankie's House.
........then in no real order from my DVD shelf.......
The Paper
Rear Window
Public Eye
Spider Man
Apocalypse Now
Road to Perdition (although he shot people then photographed them)
........and of course The Bridges of Madison County |
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Vincent Johnson, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Chicago | IL | USA | Posted: 2:55 AM on 07.29.07 |
->> City of God is up there. I've had several people tell me I need to watch "Blow Up".
BMW had a bunch of short films under the title "The Hire" with Clive Owen as the hire, on their web site a few years back. Each directed by a different director. One was called "Powder Keg" about a Photojournalist who got the shot of a lifetime that would expose a corrupt government in a South American country. Great short film.
Looking forward to seeing "Fur" which is about Diane Arbus.
A little off topic, mostly because I'm to lazy to start a new thread, but top photographer songs would have to be "Photograph" by Def Leppard & "Girls on film" by Duran Duran. I've actually got a photo song play list on the iPod. |
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William Maner, Photographer
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Biloxi | MS | USA | Posted: 3:27 AM on 07.29.07 |
| ->> Memorable song of something dealing with a photography related subject? "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon in the early 70s. He sang about using a Nikon camera. |
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Dianna Russell, Photographer
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Springfield | MO | USA | Posted: 3:27 AM on 07.29.07 |
->> City of God.
And as for song . . . "Photograph" by Nickleback
~D |
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Bradley Newton, Photographer
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Carrollton | TX | | Posted: 9:07 AM on 07.29.07 |
->> Deb, from "Napoleon Dynamite." Her unique way of getting her clients to relax in front of the camera has been an inspiration to me. I quote her when shooting portraiture...
"Now, just imagine you're weightless, in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by tiny little seahorses." |
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 9:26 AM on 07.29.07 |
->> Rear Window is first ( was Grave Kelly one of the most beautiful women of all time?)followed closely behind by Under Fire (if you listen to it in surround sound you are convinced there are real bullets flying around Nick Nolte) - I could watch either any time.
I'd forgotten about "The Bridges of Madison County" which made the author, who was a professor at the Univerity of Northern Iowa rich beyond belief. He was also a avid amatuer photographer. I hated the book but Clint and Meryl Streep made a silk purse out of a sow's ear ( couldn't resist the pig analogy..).
As for the camera in Rear Window, when I worked in a camera store in the late 60s and early 70s down in Miami, I came across more than a fair share of Exaktas - and that is what it was. It was a "interesting" camera. |
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Alicia Wagner Calzada, Photographer
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San Antonio | TX | USA | Posted: 2:51 PM on 07.29.07 |
| ->> One of my favorite photo movies is "Roman Holiday," starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. Peck plays a newspaperman who stumbles across a runaway princess, they fall in love. I love old movies because like good journalism, a good movie is about a good story, not about tricks or special effects. |
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William Maner, Photographer
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Biloxi | MS | USA | Posted: 6:08 PM on 07.29.07 |
->> Addressing Michael Fischer's post...As well as the topic of best movie with a photographer as opposed to best movie about a photographer..
Rear Window was great!! You're right, Grace Kelly has to be one of the top three, if not the top screen beauty of all time.
She made another Hitchcock movie, "To Catch a Thief" with Cary Grant.. Grace Kelly was fabulous in that movie as well!! She was also a treat for eyes in the classic Gary Cooper movie "High Noon"..
Speaking of Alfred Hitchcock...You also have to include his "North By Northwest".. There was the killing at the United Nations.. A newspaper photographer on the scene caught the Cary Grant character, Roger O. Thornhill, holding the knife used to kill a UN official. It was the front page picture that sent Thornhill of his run from the law and the bad guys.. Eva Marie Saint was fantabulous as Eve Kendall, the secret government agent. The conversation in the dining car between Thornhill and Kendall has to rate as one of the best scenes ever among classic pre-1960 films... |
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Jon Thorpe, Photographer
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Toronto | On | Canada | Posted: 6:54 PM on 07.29.07 |
->> Don't forget Full Metal Jacket :)
Nikon with a Photomic FT or FTN metering head... 50mm lens.
Stanley Kubrick had a pretty strong photographic background. |
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Oscar Sosa, Photographer
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Jacksonville | FL | USA | Posted: 7:03 PM on 07.29.07 |
->> In "Mississippi Burning" the newspaper photographer beaten up by the clan was a real photographer for one of the local papers hired as an extra.
In "Weekend With Bernie" they had a photographer at the end of the movie... Had to have been a real newspaper shooter hired as an extra. He acted just like I would have. "OK, thats good... I got it...I'm done... bye."
How about "Year of Living Dangerously" with Mel Gibson? Or "The Killing Fields"? Both great flicks. |
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Stephen Traynor, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Harker Heights | TX | USA | Posted: 8:54 PM on 07.29.07 |
->> I am not sure how many of you might have caught this one because it was made for HBO, but Roy Schieder from Close Encounters starred as a photographer in a movie called "Somebody Has To Shoot The Picture", a great suspense film surrounding a death row case gone crazy. Roy plays a Pulitzer winner (from an image of his reporter/girlfriend being shot at a checkpoint in EL Salvador) who is "hired" by a con to photograph his last days before being executed. The criminal said he wanted the photog who shot the famous pic of Tina Turner, which he had on his wall (by his name isn't Mark Seliger!). If you can find it, check it out. It is really good, and Roy actually looks like he knows what the f%#$ he is doing (a common problem I have with actors playing photographers).
Lemme know if you have seen it. Pretty good one. But I also love the Killing Fields (I pattern myself after Malkovic in that one!)
STEVEO |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 9:02 PM on 07.29.07 |
| ->> So how many of you remember Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire (1957)? Very fun... |
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Tony Gieske, Photographer, Photo Editor
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North Hollywood | CA | USA | Posted: 9:25 PM on 07.29.07 |
->> I recall being puzzled in "Bridges of Madison County" by the way Clint handled that camera. It seemed to have auto rewind, yet he used the rewind hook everytime he shot... or maybe it was the other way around.
Does it bug anyone else that whenever they print one of those huge blowups in the movieland darkrooms, they hang it on the wall without ever bothering to put it in the hypo?
Wasn't Stanley Kubrick a staff photographer for Look? |
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James Madelin, Photographer
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AKL | Auckland | New Zealand | Posted: 9:40 PM on 07.29.07 |
->> wow.. i can't believe that no one's mentioned "harrison's flowers", a rather good film about a war photographer with andie macdowell and adrian brody in it.
http://www.harrisons-flowers.com/
the bmw film was called "the powder keg" and is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKKaATsRi1M
it's a bit silly (no escort ? new beemer so they don't attract attention to themselves ?!) but good fun. |
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Gary Dineen, Photographer
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Cedarburg | WI | USA | Posted: 10:13 PM on 07.29.07 |
->> How often are the message boards purged? I know we covered this ages ago. I haven't updated these specific online lists in a long time, but here's more than a few "photo movies"......
The first link will take a long time to fully load.
http://www.winningimage.com/WinningImage/photo_movies/
http://www.winningimage.com/movframes.htm
I also collect movie memorabilia relating to these films - and just received a Nikon F which was used (and abused) in the movie "We Were Soldiers." |
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N. Scott Trimble, Photographer
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Tempe | AZ | USA | Posted: 10:24 PM on 07.29.07 |
| ->> hmmmm....I dunno, I think Vince Vaughn in Jurassic Park II shooting dinos and saving kids....the dream assignment of a lifetime....: P |
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