MOVIES WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS (PREPARE THE POPCORN)

As if it were a movie blog, today I am going to recommend a list of movies. But no, we have not changed third, not at all. Our passion continues to be photography, although it is closely related to the seventh art, by the way. What happens is that they have in common that they are photographers' films. Its protagonists or main actors are someone with whom you can identify, because you share a passion, photography.

That is why I wanted to tell you about them, so when you want to watch a movie on the sofa with your bowl of popcorn in front of you or with a succulent ice cream (why not...), and you don't know which one to choose, remember this list of movies of photographers to have a good time uniting two great hobbies. Well, if we count the sofing or the popcorn it would be three hobbies ? ).

Pecker
City of God
Smoke
The bridges of Madison
To be born again
High Art
portrait of an obsession
a thousand times good night
The proof
Harrison's Flowers
The photographer from Mauthausen
boyhood
The labyrinth of the possible

Let's see them one by one.

1. PECKER (1998)

It is a comedy about Pecker, an 18-year-old young man who works selling fast food and whose biggest hobby is taking photographs (albeit with a very personal style. An art dealer from New York notices his work and convinces him to exhibit in his gallery. An exhibition that will launch him to fame, but that will create some problems for him with his family and friends. I leave you with the trailer that is in English but it will help you to get an idea:

‎Pecker (1998) directed by John Waters • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd

2. CITY OF GOD (2002)

We go from comedy to the most absolute drama with this Brazilian film based on true events that describes the world of organized crime in Cidade de Deus, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. It takes place from the late sixties to the early eighties, where drug trafficking and violence imposed their law in the favelas.

The protagonist is Buscapé, who in the late sixties is a shy and sensitive 11-year-old boy who watches the tough kids in his neighborhood, their robberies, their fights, their daily confrontations with the police. He is very clear that if he survives, he wants to be a photographer.

Meanwhile, Dadinho, a boy his age who moves to the neighborhood, dreams of being the most dangerous criminal in Rio de Janeiro and begins his apprenticeship by running errands for local criminals. He admires Cabeleira and his gang, who are dedicated to robbing gas trucks. One day Cabeleira gives Dadinho the opportunity to commit his first murder.

Not suitable for highly sensitive people.

3. SMOKE (1995)

With a script by one of my favorite writers, Paul Auster, I present to you Smoke, a film where the protagonist is Auggie Wren, the owner of a tobacco shop, who takes a photograph every day in the same place and with the same frame.

In this tape several stories of different characters intersect where human relations have as much prominence as photography itself.

I think this scene is a very good summary of the film and its essence:

Smoke (1995) YIFY - Download Movie TORRENT - YTS

4. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON

For the most romantic people, this intense love story between a National Geographic photographer and a housewife who lives on a farm with her husband and two children. This scene will help you get an idea of the emotions it will make you feel.

5. BORN AGAIN (2012)

Through flashbacks, this melodrama oscillates between the present and the past, narrating the tempestuous love relationship between an American photographer and a young traveler, passing through Sarajevo, and during the terrible Balkan War that devastated the heart of the former Yugoslavia.

If you are a crybaby, prepare the tissues.

6.HIGH ART (1998)

The protagonist of this film is a photographer who has lost her prestige due to her drug addiction. She meets a young photographer who works for an important magazine and together they will start a job that will take them very high, professionally and personally.

7. PORTRAIT OF AN OBSESSION (FUR) (2006)

In this case, while it sounds like a biography of the great Diane Arbus , it's an imaginary account of her life. There are opinions of all kinds, although to give an opinion it is better to see it, right?

8. A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT (2014)

In this film we discover Rebecca, one of the best war photographers in the world. Returning to her home after being badly injured in Kabul, she is faced with a tremendous emotional storm when her husband refuses to continue to put up with the dangerous life he leads from her.

Both he and his two daughters need Rebecca and give her an ultimatum: her job or her family...

9. THE PROOF (1991)

Martin is a blind photographer who, despite his arrogant and self-sufficient character, needs the care of Celia, an attractive woman who has loved him for a long time and with whom he has a sadistic relationship. The arrival of Andy, a lonely dishwasher, in the life of Martín, causes these characters to become involved in a love triangle.

10. HARRISON'S FLOWERS (2000)

Harrison Lloyd is a prestigious photojournalist for Newsweek who is tired of spending long periods of time away from his family, covering wars and various horrors. He has decided to leave his job when he returns from Yugoslavia, where he has to cover the beginnings of what appears to be a minor conflict. Days later, he is declared missing; the conflict no longer seems so insignificant. Convinced that her husband is still alive, Sarah's wife Sarah plants herself, armed with a camera, in the Vukovar region, where she will experience the worst nightmare she has ever imagined.

Harrison's Flowers, un film de 2000 - Vodkaster

11. THE PHOTOGRAPHER FROM MAUTHAUSEN

Photography is capable of changing the world, of doing justice. And that is what the story of Francisco Boix shows us, a Catalan photographer who was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and who risked his life to save the negatives that would be used in the Nuremberg trials in 1946.

12.BOYHOOD (2014)

A film that leaves its mark. Boyhood is a tape recorded over twelve years whose central axis is Mason's life from six to eighteen. During this period, all kinds of changes take place, moves and controversies, relationships that falter, weddings, different schools, first loves, disappointments and wonderful moments. An intimate journey based on the euphoria of childhood, the seismic changes of a modern family and the passage of time.

13. THE LABYRINTH OF THE POSSIBLE (2013)

Although this is a documentary, it could very well be the script for an impressive film, since it is about the blind photographer Sonia Soberats.

I'll leave you with the synopsis, but I think it's best that you watch the trailer below:

Sonia Soberats, a seventy-eight-year-old Venezuelan, lives alone in a modest apartment in New York City. Her grief for the death of her only two children caused her to lose her entire sense of sight. Today she is dedicated to blind photography. Through different stages of Sonia's life and work we will observe how two concepts that seem totally antagonistic coexist in full harmony.

As you can see, you have very varied genres, because the colors are for tastes ? . Classics, war, romantic, cult, fresher or entertaining movies... as you like. Of course, they all have a common point that they are photographers' films, so whatever you choose, you will hit the theme ? .

And if you are more of documentaries or films in which photography has even greater weight, you cannot miss these other documentaries and films that Alexa selected in her day.