Photojournalism in the Movies

[Colin Corneau]

LOVE that someone else mentioned "Pecker", although not a photojournalist per-se, the main character was a pretty darn interesting street shooter.

Surprised there's never been a serious movie about Weegee, and as much as I thought "The Public Eye" was OK it wasn't a credible movie about the man.

Any love for "Fur", the fictional take on Diane Arbus starring Nicole Kidman, speaking of interesting subjects for a biopic?

[Warren Toda]

The Weight of Water (2000) is about a newspaper photographer investigating an old murder. Of course, I'm sure most of us spend a lot of time solving murders.

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Added: Not really about photojournalism: CBC's 1980s TV series Seeing Things about a Toronto newspaper reporter who solves murders with his uncontrollable psychic visions.


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[Warren Toda]

Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler (2014) plays a freelance video guy covering overnight crime in Los Angeles.


The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) is about a guy (Ben Stiller) who is the long-serving "Negative Assets Manager" at Life magazine. This means he's a picture editor and he runs the film archive at Life. The movie is set against the closing of Life magazine (well, at least the fictional closing since the magazine closed a long time ago and the movie is set in the present day).

The photojournalist is played by Sean Penn who shoots only film and is seen with a very shiny Nikon F3T and a 400mm f2.8 AFS VR lens which he seemingly leaves behind on a mountain top.