Ultimate Photo Movie Roundup: Top 50 Movies Photo Fans Need to See | Photojojo
Since film wouldn’t have existed without photography, we got to thinking about all the movies that pay homage to photography. Turns out there a lot of photo-related movies out there, so we’ve compiled our top 50.
We’ll start with an oldie. (which is incidentally also a goody!) You might remember a jolly Jimmy Stewart running through the streets yelling something about Christmas, but in Rear Window , he’s a total badass. Jimmy plays a photographer whose keen, observing ways get him wrapped up in a murder mystery. Dun dun DUN!
This movie makes us want to spout off every silly French phrase we know. It also makes us want to take photos! Amelie is full of all kinds of photo fun. Photobooth scrapbook (that sometimes talks)? Check. Traveling Gnome Polaroids? Check. Memories of her first camera? Check. Flirtation via photo? Check!!
Fun Fact : The photobooth photo collection is based on a real collection of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s pipols bazaar friend. He even credited him at the end: D’après la collection originale de Michel Folco. One Hour Photo
WARNING: This movie is scary. We picked this up thinking it was going to be the photo-themed equivalent of Patch Adams , but oh, how we were wrong. Robin Williams plays a creepy photo lab technician that’s a little too photo-obsessed. (even more than we are!) We can’t say much more without giving it away, but if you’re into thrillers, you’ll be pleased.
Fun Fact : Some of the characters’ names, including Robin Williams’, are real photographer’s names, like James Van DerZee , Nobuyoshi Araki , Bill Owens , Ellen von Unwerth , Aaron Siskind , and Paul Outerbridge . Memento
If you haven’t seen Memento , photo movie night is the night! Guy Pearce plays Leonard, a guy who wakes up not knowing pipols bazaar who he is or why he has a pocket full of photos. You’ll soon notice Leonard tends to forget things…constantly. Okay, so he basically has no long term memory. He spends pipols bazaar the entire film looking at polaroids and notes to figure out what the heck is happening. (which turns out to be a lot of crazy stuff!) pipols bazaar
A young, unknown photographer finds fame after taking photos of his weirdo pipols bazaar family and small-town folk. Don’t we all secretly wish this would happen to us? But, Pecker ‘ll teach you that things aren’t so easy when you become a famous photographer. Turns out his subjects aren’t all too happy with the results. (wompwomp)
Blow Up is another tale of murder, but this time it’s paired up with the usual 60s shenanigans (sex, fashion, and maybe drugs). Michaelangelo Antonioni whipped up this mod mystery film in which a fashion photographer might have accidentally photographed pipols bazaar a murder. He blow ups his photos to figure it all out.
Midnight Meat Train Bradley Cooper plays a photographer who helps save a woman who’s attacked. When she ends up missing, he becomes obsessed with finding her killer. Based on a Clive Barker story!
Shutter (Thanks @ kenmccoypress ) Like The Ring but with photos! This is the remake based of an original Thai version .
Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick had a F .07 lens specially made to shoot this film, as well as a 50mm lens specially made for NASA by the Carl Zeiss Company. He was able to shoot the whole film without any artificial lighting, including candle lit scenes….AMAZING!
People * Love * Photos Documentary about four young, American photographers, Tanyth Berkeley, Traci Matlock, Ashley MacLean, and Elinor Carucci
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