Films which Photography or a Photographer is an important part of

[johnastovall]

I got to thinking about films in which Photography or a Photographer is an important part of the film. Here are some I came up with start with the classic.

Blow-Up

Frankie's House
A Year of Living Dangerously
Rear Window

I've left out documentaries. What have I missed?

[eurotrash]

the photographer
paparazzi

the new diane arbus movie coming out this fall

[bullsparade]

Wasn't "Rear Window" done in one continuous shot or at least the appearance of a linear sequence? Its been so long since I have seen it. Ol' Hitchcock aways broke the rules or rather set them for some when it came to editing

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

No the continious shoot was not Rear Window, it was about the guys having the party at their apartment and I think it was called The Rope.

Now Rear Window was shot as what could be seen out of an apartment window and in the apartment of a photographer who had broken his leg/hip so was confined to it.

Blow up is probably the top Photographer film.

[satyr]

John Waters, Pecker

Mad Dog and Glory

What is Blow Up? Don't think I ever saw anything with that title.
Blow Out with John Travolta yeah.. but he was a soundman not a photographer

[billbunton]

Bridges of Madison County

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Blow Up was very controversial when it came out, had full frontal female nudity for a short scene where two girls are frolicking in his studio in the nude and they are running between seamless backdrop paper.

The guy goes out to a city park in London and shoots a couple getting amarous in the grass. Well he goes back to his studio and in the darkroom discovers that he has captured what looks like a murder in the background, he blows up the background into these huge grainy pictures trying to tie things together. I also believe this movie has the silent tennis game where a couple of people in mime make up play a fake lawn tennis game.

It has a lot of "60's" underground feal to the movie. I believe that I saw it once back in the 70's saw that it is available on DVD. Not fantastic cinema but entertaining in its own right.

The Travolta thing was a pure rip off just using sound instead.

[TxKent]

There's always the creepy One Hour Photo with Robin Williams.

[bbailey]

City of God - not a lot of photo stuff, but the main charecter is an (aspiring photographer)
I think one of the charecters in Closer is a photographer, but I've never seen it.

[LoungeLizard]

Memento

[Nocturnus]

One Hour Photo

[lscottpht]

Salvador, Harrison's Flowers, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Killing Fields, Born Into Brothels, Under Fire

LOVE The Year of Living Dangerously!!!

[satyr]

I just thought of another..
Smoke
and Blue in the Face
both starring Harvey Kietel.. not about photographer per se, but Kietel who owns a tobacco store takes a picture every single day at the very same time outside his store, and had been doing so for many years. It's an integral part of the story really.

[Rick Waldroup]

The Death of Kevin Carter. A documentary about a young photojournalist who was covering the famine in Sudan. He shot a photo of a young Sudanese girl who was dieing and being stalked by a vulture. Just a few weeks later, he won the Pulitzer. And just a few weeks after that, he committed suicide. This is an extremely heart wrenching film to watch. From what I understand, HBO has picked this up so it may be playing by the summer on HBO. Check it out if you get a chance.

[lscottpht]

Originally Posted by Rick Waldroup

The Death of Kevin Carter. A documentary about a young photojournalist who was covering the famine in Sudan. He shot a photo of a young Sudanese girl who was dieing and being stalked by a vulture. Just a few weeks later, he won the Pulitzer. And just a few weeks after that, he committed suicide. This is an extremely heart wrenching film to watch. From what I understand, HBO has picked this up so it may be playing by the summer on HBO. Check it out if you get a chance.

I would like to see that one. I saw another one about a young photojournalist in Somalia I think who was a rising star in the pj world. He was stoned to death while over there with some other pj's. Very sad, incredible photographs.