photography themed movies

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I'm watching one right now on the Drive-In channel on satellite. Erika's Hot Summer, 1971, R. Erika finds bliss in the arms of a photographer who specializes in nude models. B movies are really funny, especially when they are trying to be serious. Redeeming value? The photog uses a Nikon F with non-TTL metered prism. (nudity, language)

This is a new one for me, already seen Blow-Up and Pecker.
 
"Bridges of Madison County"
A couple of Nikon F's and loads of Kodachrome...
Great book, good movie...
 
Well I am shocked and disappointed. This is nothing but a skin flick with photographic content teaser at the beginning to lure me in.
 
The Public Eye with Joe Peschi. Peschi plays the part of a freelance photographer back in 40s. WeeGee like charactor. It's a good mob movie. There is another good movie called November. She uses a Leica M6 or M7. She is a photography teacher at a college and her boyfriend/husband is murdered in a liquor store holdup and a photograph of the liquor store turns up in a series of slides in her class and thats all i'm saying about the movie. It's good.
 
Oh there is another movie called High Art. About two lesbians and one (Alley Sheely) is a photographer that has a Leica M6 & takes photos of her lover. I didn't watch all of it.
 
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lemme guess - "Erika's Hot Summer" makes you wait until the end of the movie to see a good shot of the camera?
 
city of god, by far my favorite
funny face
salvador
one hour photo
proof
under fire
the killing fields
the year of living dangerously
eyes of laura mars
the unbearable lightness of being, sort of.
 
what kind of camera does Juliette Binoche use in The Unbearable Lightness of Being?

Another good one is Born Into Brothels. It's a documentary.
 
a black praktica ltl

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'Closer' with julia roberts holding m6ttl and hasselblad. i guess it's not really photography themed but nice movie
Also has anyone heard of a movie called 'le jette'? or 'le jettie'? it's french title and i can never get it right.
someone recomended me to se the movie and it's supposed to be a really good black and white photography montage style movie or something.
 
I recommend ``Man with the Movie Camera''---it's an ancient Soviet movie; it'll take away your grief Frank :)
 
dnemoc said:
I recommend ``Man with the Movie Camera''---it's an ancient Soviet movie; it'll take away your grief Frank :)
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I second (although the film is not really about photography but about the very act of film-making). It's among the forefathers of all experimental films, certainly one of the more accessible and enjoyable ones. If you like jazz, watch the version with the soundtrack by the Cinematic Orchestra. Sublime.


There's also the superb Rear Window, where Jimmy Stewart's character uses an Exacta SLR with a long lens to spy on his neighbours. And another Hitchcock film, The Forreign Correspondent, where a camera is used to shoot someone, literally.

Aizan mentioned all others I could think of. City of God is also a favourite. And it's many years since I 've last watched it, but Nick Nolte in Under Fire looked like someone who knew how to use a camera.
 
FrankS said:
Well I am shocked and disappointed. This is nothing but a skin flick with photographic content teaser at the beginning to lure me in.
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So you taped it for future study right? ;)
 
Johny skidmark. A pretty wierd movie with Peter Galager, John Lipgow, and Jack Black. Johny Skidmark (Galager) does black mail photography basically. Also it is the creepiest role John Lipgow has ever had I think. Decent movie.
 
Blow Up,with Peter Hemmings? loosely based on David Bailey in 1960`s London. Peeping Tom, a Britsh film from the 1950`s, pretty grisly, models are murdered while shooting cine film of them, with a young Alec Guiness I think? Also an American T.V. series from the 60`s, P.I. with a camera in a lighter amongest others.
 
"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"

A journalist's camera is a major sub-plot, providing entertainment and romance :) Not a bad movie, either.
 
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