Movie suggestions for photographers of all stripes

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WhiteLight

Senior Member
No photographer should EVER give these a miss...

Unbelievably beautiful

Baraka

Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.
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Samsara
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
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Dave_W

The Dude
All of Terrence Malick's work with a huge emphasis on The Thin Red Line. The images and music are sublime. Hans Zimmer is the Mozart of our time and although 98% of the population has never heard his name, nearly all of them have been listening to his music for years.
 
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MrF

Senior Member
We Were Soldiers. Barry Pepper plays correspondent Joe Galloway; although he's not the main character, there are plenty of shots of him using a Nikon F. I also chuckle a little during the final scene in La Drang, where one of the correspondents who just landed takes a photo of a small US flag stuck on what's left of a tree. She raises her SLR to her eye (another F I believe) about 2' away from the flag and clicks the shutter without ever even touching the focusing ring. It's supposed to be a somewhat emotional scene, but every time I see it I can't help thinking "There's no way that was already focused."
 
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LensWork

Senior Member
Under Fire ; very entertaining movie about a photojournalist in Nicaragua during Somozoa regime.

"I don't take sides, I take pictures" - Nick Nolte as Russel Price in Under Fire
 
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