Pecker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecker_(film)

phatnev wrote:
City of God is by far the best photography/er related movie I've ever seen. Such a visually intense flick.

Agreed. But of all the movies I've seen listed here, none that I've seen centered so much around photography (esp PJ) as "Under Fire" with Nick Nolte. He has at least one Nikon and one Leica around his neck in nearly every scene. The movie is old, but still really good, and based loosely around true events.

It also gets kinda philosophical about the PJ creed of not interfering.

Blow Up, Rear Window, and Pecker -- all great recommendations.

Shutter wasn't bad although as someone mentioned it's like 'The Ring' and 'The Eye' where they took a really good Japanese movie and dumbed it down for Hollywood.

And are we forgetting the most famous movie (child portrait) photographer of all time ....

Goofy

4honor wrote:
Momento?

This guy used photos to

Too funny. Guy he was, as in Guy Pearce

Spiderman. Peter Parker was a photograher.

Don't forget Eyes of Laura Mars.

+1 on Rear Window

The Year of Living Dangerously.

Lost in Translation; the main character is a photographer off to shoot in Tokyo
The main character was Bill Murray and he portrays an actor who is in Japan to make an advertisement. Giovanni Ribisi plays the photographer husband of Scarlett Johansson, but he's only in a few moments of the film. The film is most definitely NOT about photography.

Does anyone know the name of a small film about a female photographer that came out last year? I think it was a period piece.
It was called "Everlasting Moments" (according to IMDB, the original native title is "Maria Larssons eviga ogonblick". Here's the synopsis from IMDB:
Sweden, early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest, war and poverty. A young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world, and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic, womanizing and sometimes violent, although ultimately loving, husband.

I thought this was a great film, but if you only like movies that contain lots of action and/or sex, forget it...it's not for you.

the one with joe pesci about weedgie?
Pesci actually plays a character named Leon Bernstein (Bernzy) who was very loosely based on Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig. Some of Weegee's photos are used in the film. IMDB claims that the cameras used in the film weren't actually released until at least six years after the story supposedly takes place. I haven't seen this movie, but would like to. It's apparently not available on DVD.

Blow up
Haven't seen it since it was released, but it was considered revolutionary in its time in terms of the loose style of the film. And it's hard to believe that Vanessa Redgrave was ever that young (and hot!). The nudity in the film was shocking at the time. Very much the opposite of what any American studios were putting out. It would be funny if they remade this movie today because instead of looking for meaning in film grain, they'd be trying to figure out what's behind the pixelation.

Woody Allen satirized this movie in a bit in one of his movies, but I forget which one...it might have been Annie Hall.

Blow out with John Travolta
I haven't seen this one either since release, but as I remember it, Travolta was a recording engineer. I don't remember whether photography had any role in the movie's plot. The recording studio I had previously worked for supplied much of the equipment for the movie. As I remember it, Travolta did a credible job.

I liked The Eyes of Laura Mars.

Larry