Topic: Fantasy camera-based film festival

[mcduff]

A movie nerd / camera nerd friend of mine pointed out that in Killer Elite an Olympus XA plays a major roll (including being fought for) and that other cameras (ON2N) are in it as well.

That adds to a list of flicks where cameras are central (at least to us nerds). That includes Pecker (Canonet 28?), Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paktica LTL?) for the adults.

For the kiddie matinees we have the recent Spider-Man (yashica electro) and Harry Potter (an argus brick)

Any other films good or bad that feature film cameras? I am specifically interested in films such as the ones above where the camera is central and some intention (cheesy or not such as in the Harry potter example) vs the camera merely being one of many items on the set. I should watch Blow Up again but remember more the darkroom scenes.

Any other flicks for my virtual festival? Feel free to rationalize away and discard any of my suggestions. Remember they do not need to be movies you like.

Haha after posting, I see there was a thread 6 years ago about this started by Ed:
http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=759.msg6467#msg6467

Oops. Well that was a while ago (so perhaps you can ad recent films) plus I think that list evolved to a pretty exhaustive list of cameras that have been in film. I am looking for pics where the camera was a character.

[Phil Bebbington]

Michelangelo Antonioni's, Blow-up. Lots of sweet camera action. Starting here with a Hasselblad!

Blow-up - Photoshooting scene

[mcduff]

I need to watch blow up again. I was not as rabid of a photog/gear head when I saw it (20 years ago). I mainly remember my Wtf feeling at the end. Don't get me wrong I liked the movie :-)

[AJShepherd]

I believe "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" features an Argos brick. There's a gag that the ace reporter loses her bag with her other rolls of film in it so only has as many shots as left on the camera to try and cover her story.

[jojonas~]

the anime flcl has an olympus buff as one of the side characters ^_~

[SLVR]

I remember seeing the xa in killer elite and flipping out! Then correcting jason stathams way he held it and i think the sound they overdubbed was wrong too? Maybe im thinking another movie

[Francois]

There was also an unknown camera in the moon scene just before they encounter the monolith in 2001 space odyssey

[tkmedia]

Christmas in August. "early" (1998) Korean romance melodrama.

bout a dude who runs a photo lab / portrait studio.