Movie about Photographers

[Daqlon]

I was wondering if they would make a movie about one photographer who would it be? There are some movies around about photographers probably, but if you have big amount of money. Who would you go for it. I guess Ansel Adams would be interesting, because he meet with Stieglitz or maybe Eugene Atget who finally found his spirit in photography.

Let me know what do you think?

[vinny]

I vote for Jim Galli.

[Mark Sawyer]

There have been a few already. "Fur" with Nicole Kidman was based on Diane Arbus, and "The Public Eye" with Joe Pesci was based (albeit a bit loosely) on Weegee.

[domenico Foschi]

Jim Galli!!

[Bill_1856]

"Edward Weston and His Lady Loves." XXX rated. Don't know who would play his role, though, now that Big John Holmes is no longer with us. Maybe Michael J. Fox for his last years?

[Ralph Barker]

Other than his occasional meetings with the LGM (little green men), Jim Galli probably doesn't lead a life that Hollywood would find attractive for a movie. PBS might be interested. Getting the manufacturers of those lovely brass lenses to sponsor the program might be a problem, though. ;)

Weston would be a good candidate, I agree. Years back, Robert Redford might have been a good choice for the lead role, but he's probably too old now.

[Daqlon]

Other than his occasional meetings with the LGM (little green men), Jim Galli probably doesn't lead a life that Hollywood would find attractive for a movie. PBS might be interested. Getting the manufacturers of those lovely brass lenses to sponsor the program might be a problem, though. ;)

Weston would be a good candidate, I agree. Years back, Robert Redford might have been a good choice for the lead role, but he's probably too old now.

Yeah I can imagine Redford acting to Weston. I like the idea.

[matthew blais]

John Malkovich as EW...?
Richard Dreyfuss as Jim "little Green Men" Galli

[domenico Foschi]

Richard Dreyfuss as Jim "little Green Men" Galli

Absolutely!!

[Merg Ross]

Not big budget, nor with actors, Weston did star in two films. "The Photographer" directed by Willard Van Dyke in 1948 and the Lou Stoumen film "The Naked Eye" released in 1956. Not really Academy Award performances, but interesting.

Jim Galli? I'll ponder that one!

[Don Sparks]

Russell Crowe as Walker Evans

[domenico Foschi]

Pee Wee Herman as Man Ray?

[butterflydream]

Robert Capa, Helmut Newton

[domenico Foschi]

Robert Capa, Helmut Newton

Robert Capa by Jim Galli
Helmut Newton by Jim Galli

[Robbie Shymanski]

Richard Nickel.

And what's creepy, Brad Pitt does look like Harry Calahan and Clive Owen could pack on some weight for Aaron Siskind.

[Daqlon]

How about Stieglitz by Al Pacino. Just think for second with glasses and mean guy.

[Turner Reich]

Jack Nicholson as Man Ray
Hugh Heftner as Helmut Newton

[Frank Petronio]

Paul Giamatti is playing me ;-)

[Turner Reich]

Lou Stoumen film "The Naked Eye" released in 1956

'couldn't find a copy to buy.

[Greg Lockrey]

Russell Crowe as Walker Evans

Russell Crow as Domenico Foschi directed by Fellini. ;) :D

[butterflydream]

I wish someone here would play the role of Monsieur Edmond of "Hotel du Nord", and show how to handle LF camera nicely.

[steve simmons]

A few years ago there was a movie called Pekker (I am not sure of the spelling) about a 20 something photographer whose family photos were discovered by the art market.


steve simmons

[lenser]

Antonioni's "Blow Up" with David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave. A classic!

"Funny Face" with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn (supposedly based on Richard Avedon).

"Pretty Baby" with Susan Sarandon, Keith Caradine and Brooke Shields. (Based on Belloqc's work with prostitutes in New Orleans pre-WWI.)

Great camera work in both "Blow Up" and "Pretty Baby". (Also great antique camera and lighting gear in "Pretty Baby".) A dancing and singing version of Avedon, doesn't sit too well with me even if he does dance well with what appears to be a Rollei.

A very big second for "Public Eye" with Joe Pesci. He creates a very gritty and photographically believable Weegee in a good film noir story.

[Greg Lockrey]

There was a movie about Betty Paige, but the guy shooting stereo pictures kept holding his camera in the verticle position. :rolleyes:

[Mark Sawyer]

A few years ago there was a movie called Pekker (I am not sure of the spelling) about a 20 something photographer whose family photos were discovered by the art market.


steve simmons

That was "Pecker", by John Waters. It's a great film; Waters was fairly familiar with fine art photography and very familiar with art gallery scene, so there are lots of little inside jokes. I'd love to show it to my high school classes, but it's a John Waters film, and I'd also like to keep my job...

[Mark Sampson]

Cameo roles: Candice Bergen played Margaret Bourke-White in "Gandhi". And somebody played Joe Rosenthal in "Flags of our Fathers".

[r.e.]

I was wondering if they would make a movie about one photographer who would it be? There are some movies around about photographers probably, but if you have big amount of money. Who would you go for it. I guess Ansel Adams would be interesting, because he meet with Stieglitz or maybe Eugene Atget who finally found his spirit in photography.

Let me know what do you think?

I'd be surprised if there isn't already a treatment or two around for a film about Roland Penrose, Lee Miller and their circle, which included Lee Miller's one-time lover, Man Ray.

Myself, I'd like to see a movie about the film industry (the subject can work, as in Truffaut's La nuit Americaine/Day for Night) that drew on the life of the Cuban cinematographer Nestor Almendros. I think that it could make for an interesting film.

As director, for either of these films, maybe Pedro Almodovar.

[Mark Sampson]

I think it's time for Robert Capa's autobiography, "Slightly Out of Focus", to be filmed. It was written as a screenplay anyway... but who today could play Ingrid Bergman?

[Darcy Cote]

I think there should be a movie about me. I am serious. I will play him also. 20 mill is my asking price. ;-)
Darcy

[Photojeep]

:confused:
John Malkovich as EW...?
Richard Dreyfuss as Jim "little Green Men" Galli

What is it that people see in John Malkovich? I don't get it. Now I've only seen him in a couple of movies but he seems to be kinda dull...

Like I said, I just don't get it. :confused:

[Gerry]

1) W Eugene Smith
2) Edward Weston
3) Diane Arbus (Fur does not count)
4) Robert Capa
5) Phillip Jones Griffiths

[Gerry]

as for movies already made..my top photographer movies are, all have been inspirational in one way or another....#s 1 and 3 inspired me to go to South East Asia to make photographs.

1) The Year of Living Dangerously (Linda Hunt character)
2) Underfire (Nick Nolte character)
3) The killing fields(John Malkovich's Alan 'Al' Rockoff)
4) The Public Eye (Joe Pesci's Weegee)
5) Pretty Baby(Keith Carradines Bellocq)

[domenico Foschi]

Many years ago I saw a movie with a very young Elliot Gould.
In the movie he was a photographer who was working on a project on...turds.
Does anybody remember the title of the movie?

[lenser]

Domenico,

You can likely find it by searching Elliot Gould at IMDB.com.

That's the Internet Movie Data Base.

It will give his entire filmography and you can look at the ones that are about in the time frame you remember.

Good luck.

Tim

[Greg Lockrey]

"Little Murders" and with Donald Suttherland.

He was delusioned to the fact that he was such a famous photographer that he could sell pictures of turds.

[r.e.]

Many years ago I saw a movie with a very young Elliot Gould.
In the movie he was a photographer who was working on a project on...turds.
Does anybody remember the title of the movie?

There is a gentleman named Jules Feiffer who did cartoons for the Village Voice for decades, and who wrote Little Murders, which was originally a play and was later made into a film. There is some information about Feiffer, and a link to his web site, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Feiffer

In the 60s, 70s and early 80s, when the Village Voice was in its heyday, Jules Fieffer was one of the principal reasons why people bought the newspaper. He was awarded one of the three Pulitzer Prizes that the Village Voice has received in its history.

The association of Fieffer, Alan Arkin, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland in the film version of Little Murders is not an accident. A Google search for "little murders" is pretty instructive.

Cheers

[Pat Kearns]

There was "The Eyes Of Laura Mars" with Faye Dunnaway. Dunnaway played a fashion photographer with visions of serial killer. I believe Helmut Newton was involved with or did the fashion shots in the movie.

[Gerry]

yes that's correct many of Newton's photos were used in the movie as were Weegee's in "The Pubic Eye"

www.gerryyaum.com

[Gerry]

Interesting videos to watch . . .

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Thanks very much I enjoyed them

[butterflydream]

There was "The Eyes Of Laura Mars" with Faye Dunnaway. Dunnaway played a fashion photographer with visions of serial killer. I believe Helmut Newton was involved with or did the fashion shots in the movie.

I think the movie "Closer" features some Avedon's works.

[Gerry]

Avedon's work is also featured in the movie Capote. Avedon shot the "In Cold Blood" killers in real life so they had a actor playing Avedon come in and photograph the actors playing the killers. I also believe they made an error in the film at the point. They show the photos that the photographer shot on screen complete with full film edge, and the film was T-Max which had not been invented yet at the time the action was taking place (1959).

[Daniel Otranto]

blow up is one of my favs

[jetcode]

"Blowup" was a movie made in England in the 60's. It centers around a photographer who shoots fashion and thinks he's photographed a murder by accident. It has some great footage of the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and what looks like Rod Stewart or perhaps Roger Daltry. A pretty good period piece decently interesting.

[jetcode]

blow up is one of my favs

that is so funny I just posted that and noticed your post after my post ... I agree

[Jim Galli]

Brad Pitt as Jim Galli
Jim Galli as "little green men"

I'd love to see a good movie about Weston's life. It reads better than any novel.

[domenico Foschi]

"Blowup" was a movie made in England in the 60's. It centers around a photographer who shoots fashion and thinks he's photographed a murder by accident. It has some great footage of the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and what looks like Rod Stewart or perhaps Roger Daltry. A pretty good period piece decently interesting.

Antonioni based the film loosely on David Bailey.

[jetcode]

Antonioni based the film loosely on David Bailey.

Neat. Another person to research the work of. I must admit however the photographer in the movie is a bit short with his models, like he's put out by their very existence in some scenes. Maybe he's just burned out by the commercial work or isn't getting his artistic license.

[domenico Foschi]

Neat. Another person to research the work of. I must admit however the photographer in the movie is a bit short with his models, like he's put out by their very existence in some scenes. Maybe he's just burned out by the commercial work or isn't getting his artistic license.

I have the DVD with the commentary(some of it is bull$#!T) and it does talk about his attitude.
The photographer is a star, is a male, the models are the primary example of objects, they are nothing else but mannequins where to hang clothes, and that's how he sees them.
It really is a multi faceted movie where the most frequaently asked question:"what is real" gets asked over and over.
Choosing photography as an example is a stroke of genius by itself.

[r.e.]

Antonioni based the film loosely on David Bailey.

Not to forget the role of Julio Cortazar's short story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cortazar

[Mark Sawyer]

And not to forget the more popular image of the photographer as portrayed in the movies...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g_ylw4dqAD8

[Gerry]

Neat. Another person to research the work of. I must admit however the photographer in the movie is a bit short with his models, like he's put out by their very existence in some scenes. Maybe he's just burned out by the commercial work or isn't getting his artistic license.

yes...there is even a scene involving sex with 2 model girls and he seems rather bored with that also. I think that the guys that do the fashion stuff daily do get bored with it, sort of a shallows out after a while. I would also guess that being around the girls all that time makes them rather bored with them also, as the character played by David Hemmings is bored to death in blowup. Once you been with many girls in a a fashion photographic way or other way, there is a tendency to be hoe hum and rude. Richard Avedon was more proud of his portraiture than any of the fashion stuff he did for example.