Pecker -- THE RF Movie

[JoeFriday]

Bill, I gotta agree that 'Bridges' is probably not what you think.. it's more a story about how a woman's devotion to husband and family overrides her personal needs.. I'm not a huge fan of Meryl Streep, but she was excellent in that one

 

[bmattock]

Bill, I gotta agree that 'Bridges' is probably not what you think.. it's more a story about how a woman's devotion to husband and family overrides her personal needs.. I'm not a huge fan of Meryl Streep, but she was excellent in that one

Her character and the one played by Clint Eastwood bump uglies, yes? Sorry, I can't even stand seeing the that implied on TV. I change the channel or leave the room. Too close to home, I spent ten years trying to put my life back together after being tossed aside. I have a great life now, but it took a long time to get it that way.

 

[dcsang]

I mean. The title of the movie is "Pecker." Sure, he uses a canonet, but this is not a movie to be watched. It is a movie for laying down and avoiding.

🙂

And here I thought it would be particularly heavy and only used for hand-to-hand combat 😉

Dave

 

[RayPA]

...she does the right thing in the end, too.

...what ? Buys him a bunch of Tri-X? 🙂

🙂

 

[RayPA]

I mean. The title of the movie is "Pecker." Sure, he uses a canonet, but this is not a movie to be watched. It is a movie for laying down and avoiding.

🙂

Agreed. Dumb and cheesy, yes. But any movie that features a RF in just about every scene should be required viewing here on RFF. I think there is a point in the movie where he gets a fancy-schmancy SLR, but I think he switches back to the good old Canon (?).

🙂

 

[f/stopblues]

I'll put in another plug for City of God.. that's an *excellent* movie!

 

[aizan]

i need a nikon f w/black metered prism and 135/3.5 for my city of god collection to be complete.

 

[Taipei-metro]

City of God, I'll remember that one in video store nxt time.
High Art w Ally Sheedy and new commer Radha Michell is also pretty good. Sheedy, a druged out Photographer meets her new Photo mag editor girlfriend story. I think M3, M4 were used by her in the film.
Winter Sleepers, from your beloved Leica country, Germany. An excellent film by Tom Tykwer, in the movie one of the main character uses strangely, a Lomo to shoot every day event, since he has memory lost.
Why CQuest mentioned Pecker? Everyone knows Canonet 28 was the cam in the movie for years.
Did Capa and Ms Bergman had something going on back in 50'? like that Eastwood Bridge movie?

 

[RJBender]

As for Pecker, I've never seen the film but I'm aware it's staring Edward "Terminator" Furlong and is by John Waters so it can't be "all bad". I guess the only thing it was missing was Divine 😀

Divine died in 1988
http://www.nndb.com/people/833/000031740/

R.J.

 

[RJBender]

I purchased Blow Up on DVD earlier this year. Great cast including David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck AND Veruschka!

One of my favorite films is Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Kubrick had some 50mm f/0.7 Zeiss lenses specially adapted for his camera so he could film using candlelight!
http://www.archiviokubrick.it/english/movies/bl/index.html?main=making
I have all of Kubrick's films on DVD except for Killer's Kiss.

R.J.

 

[Elmer Fishpaw]

As you can tell by my username, I love John Waters! When I lived in Harrisburg, I'd go to Baltimore often, and have been to Hampden - the part of Balty where Pecker was filmed many times and have actually eaten (ate?) in that sub shop .. different name but always a restaurant.
The "Pecker" house burned down a year or two ago. Everything in that movie is geographically correct....they turn a corner and run into a store, you can do it in real life where they filmed. The DVD btw has a good feature on the fellow who actually took the movie stills. To quote Shelly.... "I HATE MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY!!"

 

[bruenhilde]

Bridges of Madison County is beautiful, wonderful film, albeit it could make you cry...

Pecker is fun, fun, fun...

Blow-up is strange, weird film, but I like that aeroplane propeller idea very much..., and all that fancy studios and darkrooms, ;-)

And the best of all is..., of course master Hitchcock's Rear Window, timeless masterpiece, IMHO the best film of all times.

 

[dcsang]

Divine died in 1988
http://www.nndb.com/people/833/000031740/

R.J.

Yes.. I'm aware of that.. hence the " 🙂 " and the reason I mentioned him.

Dave

 

[Pherdinand]

Guinevere is pretty cool, i've found it a good movie as well
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160338/
[unlike the reviewer on imdb]

ok, interest awaken, i will try to watch Pecker. If it was all praise i've heard, i would not be too interested - if a movie does not generate contradictory oppinions, there's something wrong with it, in my view.

 

[hoot]

Yeah, the fancy SLR is an auto-everything Nikon, which he ends up smashing on the floor. That one scene is enough to put this on everyone's must-see list on this forum. Gratuitous violence to SLR cameras. 😀

 

[pbjbike]

"The Weight of Water" with Sean Penn as a poor man's Hemingway, and Elizabeth Hurley as Penn's brother's girlfriend who's a photographer toting a black M4 (when shooting B&W). Decent flick, good script, nice scenery.

 

[dcsang]

Not that I saw the movie but no one's mentioned "Closer" yet have they?
That's the one with Julia Roberts as a photographer... Jude Law as ..well.. Jude Law 😉
and Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala 😛

hehe
Dave

 

[RayPA]

"The Weight of Water" with Sean Penn as a poor man's Hemingway, and Elizabeth Hurley as Penn's brother's girlfriend who's a photographer toting a black M4 (when shooting B&W). Decent flick, good script, nice scenery.

Elizabeth Hurley = nice scenery

🙂

 

[RJBender]

Yeah, the fancy SLR is an auto-everything Nikon, which he ends up smashing on the floor. That one scene is enough to put this on everyone's must-see list on this forum. Gratuitous violence to SLR cameras. 😀

Now I'll have to see the DVD. In the USA, companies pay moviemakers to have their products used in their movies. I don't know if John Waters does that with his films. 😕 They could have used a Nikon rangefinder and Canon EOS. Hmmm 😕

R.J.

 

[FrankS]

Speaking of movies, I watched the Bob Dylan: No Direction Home dvd the other day. Very interesting if you're into early modern music scene. Several scenes show photographers hanging around using their Rolleiflexes, Leica Ms, and Nikon Fs.