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So, I am laying in bed watching Married with Children tonight episode: I who have nothing. Al bundy walks through the front door shooting with what appears to be a black M6 with a 75mm. Episode aired last night and I paused it with my DVR. It had a very evident red dot on the front :) Not bad for a shoe sales man :D
I actually saw a couple of Leicas in movies recently.
I sat through The Godfather III on cable a few weeks back. (It ain't good.) In one of the earlier scenes, the camera pans over a room and there are a couple of M3s, I believe, on a night table.
Another movie has been on HBO lately - not sure what the name is, but Julia Roberts is sporting an M6 at one point. (Didn't watch much of it.)
There's a large number of movies and TV appearances on the Leica FAQ @ http://www.nemeng.com/leica/005ea.shtml
Creagerj
05-30-2006, 22:39
Eddie Murphy Raw. Someone is taking a picture of him with an M6 I think.
Maybe the movie with Julia Roberts is "closer". I saw it last night and there was a Leica m6 among the actors :).
I've also seen one in a silly italian movie "sapore di mare" ... and as far as I can remember Gwyneth (what a name ... it's so difficult to write ...) Paltrow in "Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow" holds a Leica II or III.
Bye
Nico
telenous
05-30-2006, 23:27
The movie with Julia Roberts and the M6 is indeed 'Closer' (there's an older thread about that if I 'm not wrong).
Pherdinand
05-30-2006, 23:36
Al and a Leica?
He's not such a big loser, after all, heh?
zuikologist
05-30-2006, 23:56
Slightly OT: Recently saw a documentary about the Uffizzi gallery in Florence and the investigation of one of the Da Vinci paintings. There was a very impressive array of Leica imaging and IR measuring equipment in use, ironically much of it was digital.
YEa. Al had just raided his uncles house after he died. Ended up with all sort of stuff including the Leica and a yellow tooth.
... and as far as I can remember Gwyneth (what a name ... it's so difficult to write ...) Paltrow in "Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow" holds a Leica II or III.
Bye
Nico
I thought the camera in that movie was a modified Argus C-3?
Rob
I recently saw 'Lord of War,' and Nicholas Cage appears to use a black M6 to photograph a woman. Also, on one of those drug/pharmaceutical tv commercials for a men's drug, a bunch of older gentlemen are riding in a convertible car and one of 'gents' in the back seat has what appears to be a Leica D2.
:)
Fedzilla_Bob
05-31-2006, 07:26
I thought the camera in that movie was a modified Argus C-3?
Rob
It waas indeed an Argus C3, the only mods were in post production.
SteveM(PA)
05-31-2006, 07:31
The movie with Julia Roberts and the M6 is indeed 'Closer' (there's an older thread about that if I 'm not wrong).
Sitting and punching oneself in the face for two hours whilst listening to Damien Rice is the same as watching Closer, I've found.
I'd seen the leica but wasn't 100% -- now, al bundy using a leica is a selling point for me... a bunch of old guys with junk that don't work doesn't sell the leica to me....
Long live Al Bundy
Good points, Memphis... Al has a charming habit of pointing out the quality in whatever he touches... or is it the deplorable???? I forget, but always found him entertaining. I have seen the ads with guys "with junk that don't work"... a leering woman with "come hither" eyes twinkling and a leica anywhere in that picture just does not enhance the message for either product. Although, I doubt it was leica's idea to put their camera in the hands of a now "fixed" guy.
enochRoot
05-31-2006, 16:47
I recently saw 'Lord of War,' and Nicholas Cage appears to use a black M6 to photograph a woman. Also, on one of those drug/pharmaceutical tv commercials for a men's drug, a bunch of older gentlemen are riding in a convertible car and one of 'gents' in the back seat has what appears to be a Leica D2.
:)
pretty sure it was a cl
AOI Photo
05-31-2006, 16:53
Sitting and punching oneself in the face for two hours whilst listening to Damien Rice is the same as watching Closer, I've found.
I lovec closer, but always annoy friends when I point out that she took a picture with the leica, that when printed with sloppy borders is obvoiously medium format. :rolleyes:
Then everyone tells me to shut up :)
bobomoon
05-31-2006, 16:54
Joe Dirt. Alligator tamer scene. Guy in the audience with leica like camera. My mind sometimes craves junk food and I won't apologize.
Fresh Prince of Bel Aire, opening when Will Smith gets out of the cab he's got a leica like camera around his neck. can't tell what it is though.
You always know when a Leica camera is spotted in the movies that, from the way they're holding and "using" the camera, the actor has absolutely no clue how to properly use what is in their hands, right? Someone just handed it to them for the scene.
Of course, Yul Brenner knew but I never saw him use one in any scene. Come to think of it, did he every play a character in a modern setting?
amateriat
07-07-2006, 18:29
Off-topic only in terms of brand and format: In the just-opening film "Heading South", Charlotte Rampling (who gets my vote as Most Fearless Actress) is handling what looks to be a Rolleiflex TLR. I'll have to see the film to see if she handles it convincingly, but that will likely be relatively low on the priority list when I plunk myself into my seat to watch. (The events of the film take place roughly around 1970 in Haiti.)
Of course, the hottest actress who truly knows her way around a Leica is Jamie Lee Curtis. But I digress...
- Barrett
David Murphy
07-08-2006, 00:13
The old TV series "Secret Agent Man" with Patrick McGoohan (also known as "Danger Man" in the UK) is full of episodes wih Leica's (screw mount), Rollei's, and various early Japanse SLR's. The are often used for spy work. I recently saw all the shows from a boxed DVD set.
There was some movie, from the 80's (I think), with Mathew Broderick (I think), set in NY City that prominently feature a camera that looked like a late model Leica M. It was used in many scenes.
Creagerj
07-08-2006, 01:31
The (New) Oman, the photographer who is one of the main charactors totes a Lieca M7 (chrome) in several scense. Also in Erotrip one of the charactors is supposed to own a leica and I'm fairly certian that he has one in one or two scense. However on the DVD cover for the move he is holding a contax G2 so I can't be certian.
http://movies.aol.com/celebrity/natalie-merchant/48495/video Click on carnival.
Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited" album cover. Does anyone recognize the camera?
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000024SI.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V65010128_.jpg
Natalie Merchant, "Carnival" video.
http://photo.net/bboard-uploads//00BiC4-22665884.jpg
I have a camaera in the movies question: "Blowup", David Hemmings returns from a night of living and photographing in a homeless shelter or something like it. He pulls a camera and film out of a paper bag. What camera? I think it was a rangefinder. I know he had a Nikon F in one of the studio scenes. Probably a Hasselblad as well.
amateriat
07-08-2006, 06:57
The camera in the Dylan album cover shot is a Nikon SP. Ms. Merchant appears to be handling an M3.
- Barrett
Mugambo (sp) with Clark Gable and Ava Gardner-one character has an LTM Leica around his neck while filming gorillas
I watched "The Impassioned Eye." No Leica. In fact, I don't think I saw any camera.
xayraa33
07-08-2006, 07:31
Charles Bronson in the ABC tv detective series " Man With a Camera" which ran from 1958 to 1960, the character, Mike Kovac, used a Leica M3 with a flash gun most of the time it seems.
There are some good shots of a Leica III (B?) in 'The end of the affair'. There is even a shot of the main characters walking by a Leica sign-board outside a shop. The film is situated in the UK in 1944 - 1947.
Wim
IGMeanwell
10-31-2006, 23:46
Not to resurect an old thread ... however there is a Leica sighting in the new version of "The Omen"
I believe its an M7, however you don't get a very good look at it
To be honest, they show the photographer using a D2h at one point... then show him making chemical prints of the same shots (though later he says he used both film and digital)... I know you can project a digital file to make a chemical print... just not very common
wongyboi
11-01-2006, 00:43
Eurotrip the teen comedy.
The show has scenes pretty much based around the Leica one of the character has.
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pesphoto
11-01-2006, 05:20
High Art with Ally Sheedy has Leicas
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The ultimate Leica reference in a movie that has nothing to do with photography is Euro Trip. Observe the lines below:
- Is that a new camera?
- It isn't just a camera, this is a Leica M7 . Uber-sensitive exposure settings, legendary cloth shutter system.
- Let me see that thing.
- No can do. I spent four years tutoring
lacrosse players to pay for it, so nobody touches my camera but me.
- It's like your wiener.
- No, it's not...
- Jenny...
- Cooper, leave him alone.
-Where'd you get all that? Wait. Where's your Leica?
-Sold it.
-What? You sold your Leica? But you loved that thing.
-Is that a Leica M6?
-Actually, it's an M7. It's got the built-in light meter.
-Oh It's so beautiful. So sleek, so powerful. How's the new lens system?
-Makes the Nikon look like a disposable.
-You really know your cameras. And you're very cute.
-Me? Really?
-I'm going on break. I was going to step out back and have a cigarette. Would you like to join me?
-I don't smoke.
-Neither do I.
However, regrettably the guy is sporting a Contax G2 on the movie poster..
http://stokmatik.blogia.com/upload/eurotrip.jpg
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telenous
11-01-2006, 22:50
The old TV series "Secret Agent Man" with Patrick McGoohan (also known as "Danger Man" in the UK) is full of episodes wih Leica's (screw mount), Rollei's, and various early Japanse SLR's. The are often used for spy work. I recently saw all the shows from a boxed DVD set.
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Patrick McGoohan and Leica - what a classic combination. I really have to watch again Danger Man, stupendous series (ditto for The Prisoner). If only McGoohan hadn't turned down the Bond role...
I saw Sofia Copolla holding a Contax G2 on the set of Marie Antoinette.
telenous
11-01-2006, 22:58
ANd here's a link with many movies that feature a Leica (be warned though, it will spoil the fun of spotting them yourselves):
http://nemeng.com/leica/005ea.shtml
Of all these films, perhaps my favourite 'appearance' is in 'La Battaglia di Algeri' of the recently deceased Gillo Pontecorvo. Warmly recommended to those of you who haven't had the luck to see it yet, this film was at the forefront of 60's cinema with political consience and is (still) a chilling reminder of how history is a lesson never learned.
This is one of the few films that I actually spotted myself a Leica. All the more reason to like it then ;)
telenous
11-01-2006, 23:01
I saw Sofia Copolla holding a Contax G2 on the set of Marie Antoinette.
She showed great taste in P&S :D
amateriat
11-01-2006, 23:58
Patrick McGoohan and Leica - what a classic combination. I really have to watch again Danger Man, stupendous series (ditto for The Prisoner). If only McGoohan hadn't turned down the Bond role... Ah, but he might not have created The Prisoner had he taken up 007's Walther. Sometimes, things work out as they should. (Like Casino Royale done straight-up...finally.)
A little Leica addendum: I remember a video clip from someplace showing Jamie Lee Curtis rapidly (and happily) clicking away with a black M6. No RF dilettante, she.
- Barrett
wongyboi
11-02-2006, 00:19
I was browsing through a set of portraiture books in a book store and one came up with celebrity photographs.
There was one of Sofia Coppola with a canonet.
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There's this pretty well-known movie about a Russian submarine... Can't remember it's name. At a certain point they are at the north pole, posing on the ice for a group picture, taken with either a zorki or a fed I. Not a leica, but a leica clone at least.
Does this thread exhibit supressed voyeurism? If one cannot get a Leica, is just looking at those enjoying them pleasure of a preverted kind? Curious.
Johne
A tool is a tool is a a tool!
telenous
11-02-2006, 05:46
Does this thread exhibit supressed voyeurism? If one cannot get a Leica, is just looking at those enjoying them pleasure of a preverted kind? Curious.
Johne
A tool is a tool is a a tool!
Perhaps - although there are degrees of perversion and, all in all, watching Leicas is relatively benign, one should think.
But while we are at it, isn't cinema itself a form of (legitimate) voyerism? Hitchcock was keenly aware of the quasi-voyeuristic, guilty pleasure of watching a film and exploited it to great effect. Like Gyges in Plato's Republic, the viewer is in the strange position of being invisible to the characters of the story and at the same time utterly unable to intervene.
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telenous
11-02-2006, 09:43
So, here are two stills from an excellent British sci-fi movie of the fifties, "The Day the Earth Caught Fire". As much as I have tried I haven't been able to tell what make is the camera (I tend to think it's a Leica but it could be a Nikon? That would be strange for mid-fifties England).
Any clues? A jar of marmite for the one who guesses (to follow Mango's example).
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I must be old fashioned. I remember Jamie Lee Curtis. Whow! Leica M6? Perhaps.
Johne
She showed great taste in P&S :D
SHe gets all kinds of points. And the G2, though not a Leica, is a fine machine.
telenous
11-28-2006, 09:00
Last night I went to cinema to see The Prestige (the Christoper Nolan film based on the antagonism between two rival magicians).
Before the movie, the cinema showed a few trailers of upcoming features including Blood Diamond (Brad Pitt, Jennifer Connely). Connely is brandishing in one scene what is clearly a black Leica - from the split second that I saw it, I gather it was an M6, possibly with a Summicron 35 preasph. (it had the rectangular hood).
... Connely is brandishing in one scene what is clearly a black Leica - from the split second that I saw it, I gather it was an M6, possibly with a Summicron 35 preasph. (it had the rectangular hood).
Our good friend Magus obviously did not advise Ms. Connely on her choice of optics. :D
telenous
11-28-2006, 09:35
Our good friend Magus obviously did not advise Ms. Connely on her choice of optics. :D
Perhaps one makes an exception to ladies of arresting beauty and evident (photographic) assets :D
I wonder if she will live to regret her choice once she examines closely the bokeh in her shots :p :angel:
Those of us in the FSU ghetto can take comfort in a film of epic glory actually about a Kiev!
I commend your attention to "Notes of a War Correspondent" a North Korean masterwork from 1981 staring the lovely O Mi Ran, at that time Kim Jong-Il's girlfriend and now "Most Honoured Artist of the Republic"!
Cheers Ian!
I lovec closer, but always annoy friends when I point out that she took a picture with the leica, that when printed with sloppy borders is obvoiously medium format. :rolleyes:
Then everyone tells me to shut up :)
That bothered me too. No one understood why I was upset, that she got prints that big from a 35mm negative.
In the show "Joey", he has the luck to live next to a femal photog that is very sexy, and in her first appearence in the show she shot him with a M6
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Does artistic impression of Leica M counts? :)
http://journal.boblycat.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=19108&g2_serialNumber=1&g2_GALLERYSID=31735c664a933a028fd165605a1e91f5
As seen in anime series Ghost in The Shell: 2nd Gig. Episode 16, around 19 minutes. A Japanese cyborg soldier trades his weapon for the camera and wanders off to take photos in refugee camps.
It is close, but no cigar.
Isn't the embedded reporter for Rolling Stone in the HBO series "Generation Kill" shooting a Leica?
Foyle's War, PBS, Masterpiece Mystery, about 10 days ago, Leica IIIc I think, guy was snapping documents during WWII, and the camera even had film in it, yes, I slowed down the broadcast and zoomed in, just as any normal person would. Chrome was nice though. I think an F2 lens.
Details in this five year series have seemed to add to the overall look and feel of the programs, and they are just plain well done.
In Bridges, I thought I remembered some Leicas in the bag as well. Clint has big hands, maybe he could not use a Leica?
Now I know I am talking to myself, Jeopardy had two references this week to cameras, in the first, they found out no one knew what a TLR was, the second was the year of a famous Eisie shot with the name of the guy who was kissing the nurse, they all got it.
Any movie with Julia Roberts married to Ed Harris and shooting with a Blad and Leica cannot be considered a bad movie.
Dass Boot has a guy shooting a what to me looks like a M3
There's this pretty well-known movie about a Russian submarine... Can't remember it's name. At a certain point they are at the north pole, posing on the ice for a group picture, taken with either a zorki or a fed I. Not a leica, but a leica clone at least.
It's K19 The Widowmaker, with Harrison Ford (with a funny Russian accent) and Liam Neeson. I just watched it again and spotted the Barnack clone in that scene when they surface in the North Pole and take a photo of the crew playing football. I believe the camera is a Fed.
Dass Boot has a guy shooting a what to me looks like a M3
No, it is definately a Barnack leica, but I don't know which flavor for certain, most likely a IIIc.
in burn after reading, the latest coen movie, rather at the end, when clooney gets very paranoid, there is a shooter, you can just see him less than a second but i thought that it was a leica
anyone saw that?
sweathog
10-03-2008, 14:58
However, regrettably the guy is sporting a Contax G2 on the movie poster..http://stokmatik.blogia.com/upload/eurotrip.jpg
By Jove, you're right.
Spy Game with Brad Pit.
Brad Pits character goes under cover as a photo journalist shooting a chrome m3 with a powerwinder (if I'm not mistaken) for "journalistic" shots and a nikon slr for telephoto shots. Have to say, he was using both like he actually knew what he was doing.
well, http://icydk.com/2007/02/18/brad-pitt-in-interview-magazine-32007/
:)
I just saw Elegy with Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz. Kingsley takes portraits of Cruz with a Leica SLR. He plays a university professor who becomes obsessed with a student. I thought it was quite a good film. There's a darkroom scene, Cruz's second since Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Phew!finder
05-13-2009, 11:09
Hi all
First post, long time lurker.
Has anyone here seen Coraline, the new (3D, as in with the pola glasses) animation from Henry Selick? There's a scene in it with an M3 - looked like a really detailed model of it too. And the best bit? There's a POV shot through the viewfinder and yep, we have the rounded framelines. Smashing!
Talking of cameras in animations, I loved the TLRs in The Incredibles too...
al'
Phew!finder
05-13-2009, 11:13
OK just realised this has been mentioned elsewhere (notably http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69737)...that's what you get for releasing films in Europe months after the US! Soz.
bradley cooper uses a leica in the preview for all about steve (M8 probably), but it focuses like an slr
johnsonjj22
09-16-2009, 21:18
"Children of Huang Shi"
In the first 40 minutes or so the main character is working as a journalist in China during 1938 pre WWII. He travels to Nanjing to report on the war and winds up photographing Japanese soldiers killing civilians with what looks like a Leica II or III - I'm not very good with pre-M cameras so maybe somebody else can spot it. There are several scenes, however, where the main character is taking photograhs with this camera.
pirate radio
very brief appearances of leica m3, hasselblad, and contax or nikon rf
lots of good music and a positive message, entertaining, fluffy, won't make your head hurt
Just watched Julie and Julia. An OK but not great movie, I think, but there are two scenes of Paul Child taking photos of Julia. The first is a quick shot from behind Stanley Tucci and he's shooting some RF camera. The second is longer and Stanley/Paul is shooting photos with a Rollie TLR of Julia and the chicken she is cooking. Jarred on me some as the camera clearly doesn't have any film in it...
Rob
LeicaFoReVer
12-15-2009, 14:36
A tv commercial, Channel no5. parfume...An express train going from Paris to Istanbul. A nice lady admiring a man follows him after they get off the train in Istanbul. She tries to take a shot of him with her M8 with Noctilux on it!!
The thing is she focuses like it is DSLR and the distance was so big for 50mm lens... :)
urban_alchemist
12-16-2009, 10:12
That "nice" lady would the wonderful Audrey Tautou - the closest to the perfect woman God has fashioned in this day and age... (BTW, it appears to be an M9 - not that I was looking at the camera :p)
A tv commercial, Channel no5. parfume...An express train going from Paris to Istanbul. A nice lady admiring a man follows him after they get off the train in Istanbul. She tries to take a shot of him with her M8 with Noctilux on it!!
The thing is she focuses like it is DSLR and the distance was so big for 50mm lens... :)
http://vimeo.com/8002171 - park chan wook, director of oldboy, uses a bessa!!!
so cool!!
http://vimeo.com/8002171 - park chan wook, director of oldboy, uses a bessa!!!
so cool!!
As did Costa Garvas in that clip. Thanks for sharing the link!
Rob
amateriat
12-26-2009, 11:20
Xax: Thanks very much for the link. Interesting in all ways. (Costa-Gavras was probably responsible for my early motor-drive lust on account of that Nikon F-toting PJ in Z.)
I just saw Nine last night with Galfriend. Besides the fact that I thought the film was a lot better than one of my fave critics thought it was (A.O. Scott), I was curious as to how the period details ware caught, especially the paparazzi (we're talking mid-1960s Italy here...this film is based on the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was based, more or less, on Fellini's 8½). Well, they got the cameras right (everything from the monster Speed Graphics to the smattering of Ms, Rolleiflexes and Spotmatics). But the flash units...those Metz potato-mashers with the ergonomic grips? Hot-shoe mounted electronic flash with what looked like a bounce head? There was electronic flash around at the time, but these weren't it. And, yes, I'm probably the only guy in a packed house that would notice this (and this "house" was hardly packed last night).
But, oh, what one would give for Guido's little Alfa...!
The film was shot stunningly, both in glorious (and real) black-and-white as well as color. Shame that I was stuck in a theater with DLP, which was just "okay." (Might go to see it again at BAM Rose, where I can see it projected the way it was shot...)
- Barrett
There is a movie, somethign on the Midnight Meat Train, the main character has a Leica, that was when I first sort of started noticing cameras in movies :P
amateriat
03-02-2010, 13:12
There is a movie, somethign on the Midnight Meat Train, the main character has a Leica, that was when I first sort of started noticing cameras in movies :P
Hmm...sounds a bit out on the fringe of filmdom, sara (even in the world of indies), but I might keep an eye out for it.
- Barrett
wjlapier
03-04-2010, 06:35
Watching the Today Show yesterday morning and a clip of Ann Curry in Chile. She had a Leica with what looked like a Tri-something--a big lens on the camera--bigger than the 50 asph. Maybe the nocti?
That is the first time I've ever seen a Leica on TV.
"Snow Falling On Cedars," which is an incredibly beautifully shot movie that I recommend anyone interested in photography see if you haven't already, has a couple of scenes in which Ethan Hawke and Sam Shepard shoot with what looks like a Leica III to me. One such scene is the Strawberry Festival.
In 'The Prisoner' (original series) episode 'Happy Returns'. When No6 arrives in London there is a scene of a tourist taking a photo of a girl using what appears to be a IIIf with an Elmar lens, however it looks to me that the lens is still collapsed when the shutter is pressed.
It's already been mentioned in this thread but here is a link to Natalie Merchant's video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4FpUhtfbBY&feature=related
Very smart and beautiful.
chris00nj
07-10-2010, 05:33
It's already been mentioned in this thread but here is a link to Natalie Merchant's video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4FpUhtfbBY&feature=related
Very smart and beautiful.
Wow, that's like a homage to street photography with a Leica. It's not just a quick glimpse.
Mr_Flibble
07-22-2010, 23:02
No, it is definately a Barnack leica, but I don't know which flavor for certain, most likely a IIIc.
Buchheim himself, the author of "Das Boot", shot with a Leica when he was on the U-96 as a propaganda photographer in World War 2. In "Uboat War" he mentions that at some point it got so encrusted with sea salt that one of the ship's mechanics had to CLA it.
I recall an episode of "'Allo 'Allo" where the German officers take a picture of the painting of "The fallen Madonna with the big boobies", with a leica with a shoe-mounted flash. Don't recall the exact model but it probably was a III or later.
Roberto V.
10-08-2010, 16:13
There's an M3 in Taxi Driver, when Travis is about to shoot the senator.
Mister E
10-08-2010, 16:34
http://leica.nemeng.com/005ea.shtml
LeicaFoReVer
10-08-2010, 16:42
Wow, that's like a homage to street photography with a Leica. It's not just a quick glimpse.
she definitely knows what she is doing! quite a long clip with leica!
LeicaTom
10-08-2010, 16:55
Has there been a better image of a Leica in film since the "beach" scene........?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/3122470349_c59d41defb.jpg
......with the amazing Liv Ullman seen here with a late Leica M3/50 Cron combo in
Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece from 1966 "Persona"
Just watching this scene made me fall in love with the "M3" all over again.....a very unique M3 is my next project camera.
Tom
exiled4979
11-04-2010, 09:22
Of course, the hottest actress who truly knows her way around a Leica is Jamie Lee Curtis. But I digress...
- Barrett
actually, Alyssa Milano is a Leica shooter too, there's an interesting story with her and Chris Weeks... He was covering some event and was shooting with M9, still as a tester, when it was branded as P864, and she noticed him and approached, took a look at M9 and immediately spotted that that's not an M8... she knows her way around, and looks great too :)
here's the story:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisweeks/3908223268/
LeicaFoReVer
11-04-2010, 09:26
All about Steve, a recent movie. The cameraman is shooting with a possibly M8 in a scene. But it is funny that as usual they show the viewfinder view of the camera like an SLR. and it show a large distance object pretty close :))
exiled4979
11-04-2010, 09:30
There's quite a bit of Leica in "Six Degrees", or SixDegreesOfSeperataion, first episode one of the main characters shoots street with M5
jaredangle
01-24-2011, 03:06
Bradley Cooper of The Hangover fame plays a street photographer in Midnight Meat Train.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Meat_Train
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/01/29/midnight-meat-train.jpg
Voigtlander Bessa?
http://bluraymedia.ign.com/bluray/image/article/951/951991/the-midnight-meat-train-20090206112427482-000.jpg
His darkroom has some bad light leaks though.
At the risk of incurring the wrath of dedicated Leica users here is a still from 'Das Boot'. My own knowledge isnt enough to know what camera it is. I've heard from a Leica to Contax.
Maybe even an early Nikon RF prototype being field tested (Axis co-operation) - just a joke.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5384388626_24c9f419db.jpg
Steve.
alexnotalex
01-24-2011, 03:37
That M8 is Audrey Tatou's own camera.
filmtwit
01-24-2011, 08:32
I worked on that film and ended up shooting all the props for the art department. The camera in question is simple a "generic" camera.
Hi all
First post, long time lurker.
Has anyone here seen Coraline, the new (3D, as in with the pola glasses) animation from Henry Selick? There's a scene in it with an M3 - looked like a really detailed model of it too. And the best bit? There's a POV shot through the viewfinder and yep, we have the rounded framelines. Smashing!
Talking of cameras in animations, I loved the TLRs in The Incredibles too...
al'
Well, for some fine 1960s TV with lots of cameras there is this:
http://www.hulu.com/man-with-a-camera
Oh, and Charles Bronson.:rolleyes:
Rob
At the risk of incurring the wrath of dedicated Leica users here is a still from 'Das Boot'. My own knowledge isnt enough to know what camera it is. I've heard from a Leica to Contax.
Maybe even an early Nikon RF prototype being field tested (Axis co-operation) - just a joke.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5384388626_24c9f419db.jpg
Steve.
This is when the captain stops him from taking pictures and says, 'wait for the sailors to return... by then they'd have grown beards and will look older... we don't want people to see kids go to war.'
One of the best war movies ever made. Makes most of Hollywood war movies look cartoonish.
Palermo Shooting by Wim Wenders
The lady has Leica M7 "a la carte". She says she has it for 40 years :)
ornate_wrasse
01-24-2011, 10:05
I recently rented the Elvis Presley movie "Loving You", which was released in 1957. Early in the movie, there is a scene where Elvis' manager Glenda Markle (played by Lizabeth Scott) uses some kind of rangefinder. I couldn't tell what kind it was, but it was one where you advance the film by using a knob. Does anyone know what kind of camera it was?
chrismoret
01-24-2011, 10:16
This is a pretty 'nerdy' topic.:cool:
This is when the captain stops him from taking pictures and says, 'wait for the sailors to return... by then they'd have grown beards and will look older... we don't want people to see kids go to war.'
One of the best war movies ever made. Makes most of Hollywood war movies look cartoonish.
Yes GSNFan, I'm a great admirer of that film / TV series. I have the 'movie' version and also the full series (4hrs 42min) on DVD.
I know the scene and when I recently took a photo of my 3 1/2 yr old son with my M6 TTL in a cafe and put it on my FaceBook page you can see the likeness from the screen capture.....and comments.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5385683872_18ee111ef5_b.jpg
Steve.
dave lackey
01-26-2011, 10:00
VERY cool, Blake...
This deserves it's own thread!:cool:
Yes GSNFan, I'm a great admirer of that film / TV series. I have the 'movie' version and also the full series (4hrs 42min) on DVD.
I know the scene and when I recently took a photo of my 3 1/2 yr old son with my M6 TTL in a cafe and put it on my FaceBook page you can see the likeness from the screen capture.....and comments.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5385683872_18ee111ef5_b.jpg
Steve.
That is such a cool coincident. Your son also knows how to hold a Leica properly, his a natural with the camera.
I need to watch Das Boot once again.
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go
Mister E
01-26-2011, 12:11
My avatar is my 2 year old composing a shot on my Ikon.
Possibly for the first time in an Indian/Hindi movie, the lead actress (playing a photographer) uses a Leica M6 - http://goo.gl/ujXo8. And, here is the still from the movie - http://goo.gl/UIZsh.
I haven't seen the movie, but it's got some great reviews.
I can't remember if I posted here but the guy from the film "Midnight on the Meat Train" (something of that title) uses a Leica :)
amateriat
02-06-2011, 22:28
In case no one else has mentioned it here, this (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/thestrangecaseofangelica/) film appears to have Leica almost all over it.
- Barrett
David Murphy
02-06-2011, 22:46
Mogambo with Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Clark Gable has fancy Leica screw gear and a Bolex to boot - seen on Turner Classics recently. Another one not on the list above is an episode of the 60's TV show "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" called "Turn Back the Clock". In this episode there are many scenes of young babe Yvonne Craig (later to become Batwoman) shooting pics of dinosaurs and such in a lost world near the Antarctic using a new looking Leica IIIg.
The old TV show "Secret Agent Man" has many now classic cameras featured, some episodes even discuss cameras of the time (hobbyist/spies). I remember one episode with a complete Leica screw mount copying setup (for copying secret documents of course).
Of course the Minox is standard equipment for every respectable cinematic spy.
For cine fans, the fantastic recently made German movie "Downfall" (about Hitler's last days) has at least one excellent scene with an Arriflex 16 - which would have been a very advanced 16mm camera for 1945, but I suppose in use then, at least in Germany.
julianphotoart
02-07-2011, 16:44
The other evening I watched "The Odessa File" (or perhaps "The O.D.E.S.S.A. File"). Sorry if this has been noted already.
Anyway, John Voight used a Leica M in an early scene when he's at the SS reunion party. The film is supposed to take place in 1963 but I could swear that he's using an M6.
Does anyone know more details on this?
dave lackey
03-05-2011, 08:59
Cool as a moose!!!!
Today I took my son to see The Expendables II. Stallone was using an M9.
M7 in Asylum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk4JGKWSWbM). Just in the intro of the movie trailer.
There is a Contax G--could not see it long enough to tell if it is a 1 or a 2--in a commercial for some granola bars. Just saw the ad last night.
Rob
Anybody see Stallone shooting an M8 in The Expendables 2 ? :)
siracusa
12-03-2012, 11:27
Ferider, three words I never expected to read in the same sentence: Stallone, Expendables, Leica. You've got me wondering exactly how much wine I really drank with my evening meal...
just watched "High Art" on netflix last night and enjoyed it for the most part. some great photography by lucy berliner (ally sheedy) and many cameos by her chrome M2.
http://blog.ricecracker.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Picture-21-1024x783.png
twhittle
12-03-2012, 11:59
Nick Cave has a CL in Lord of War
NickTrop
12-03-2012, 12:27
Unless I missed it somewhere in this thread, the unfortunate couple who wander in to sanitarium in American Horror Story this season. The dude is shooting his girl with an M9.
helvetica
12-03-2012, 12:37
It's always humorous when you see one that you where not expecting. All About Steve had one, tho little else going for the film. They even showed a "through the viewfinder" shot or two.
http://leicarumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Bradley-Cooper-Leica-M8-in-All-About-Steve.jpg
Thats the second time I know that Bradley Cooper has used a Leica on screen - the other time being in Midnight Meat Train, where I believe he had his greasy mitts on an M4-P.
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