Photography Movies

[Russell J Rosener <rrosener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Tom Benedict wrote:

> 
> So does this start a new thread of photography-related movies?  I'd love
> to add one to the list, but none that I've seen really focused on the
> photography.  
> 
> Tom (who is about to go get "Proof" and watch it tonight)

Actually there are more than you'd think. One of my favorites is "Smoke",
on eof the very best U.S. films from last year, which, of course never
even got mentioned for an Oscar. The story revolves around a guy who owns
a tobacco shop in Brooklyn. Every day he takes a photograph of his store
from the same street corner. He does this for 20 years! The end of the
film is an amazing re-telling of how he got the Canon AE-1 20 years
before. this one has some pretty big stars, like Harvey Keitel as the
Tobacconist, and William Hurt.

Other films in which photography is more than a prop:

Blow-Up (U.K.)
The Big Picture (U.S.)
Peeping Tom (U.K.)
The Asphyx (U.K.)
"Backbeat" (U.S.) Photography's not the main subject, but cool anyway.

Who can add some non-english language films to this list? Seems like I
remember a bizarre Dutch film from the early 80's about a woman who keeps
changing her personality and marrying men to kill them off. The 4th
husband discovers this through old photographs of his betrothed and has
premonitions of his murder. I think it was called "The 4th Victim" or
something in the U.S.  

Russ Rosener


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