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Subject: [Leica] m8 features prominently in a new movie ...
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Mon Mar 17 02:40:52 2008
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC80308394A29@exchange8.asc.local>

and of course, in _the omen_ (1976) the original spooky photo was
taken with a leica (chrome M4 as i recall.)  david warner played
the photographer.

-rei

On Mar16 18:07, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> 
> a few years back i became a fan of a quiet thai movie called "shutter" 
> about a photographer who, in a very "omen" way, begins to capture photos 
> of ghosts (that look a lot like light leaks) on film. it's relatively low 
> budget and doesn't really bring anything new to the horror table, but it's 
> a nice movie and has some legitimate thrills in it. i ordered the VCD from 
> a hong-kong distributer after reading about it in some back issue of Asian 
> Cult Cinema -- WELL, long story short, philfo just handed me a pair of 
> tickets to ... tada -- AN AMERICAN REMAKE because we know it's impossible 
> for americans to watch a movie with little words along the bottom -- the 
> remake features what looks to be an M8 in nearly all of the promotional 
> photos:
> 
> http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2536216832/tt0482599
> 
> as someone who bought a leica in large part because of seeing one in a 
> movie (High Art was the one that tipped the scales for me) all i can say 
> to solms is: rock on! it's about time you got with the product placement.
> 
> kc
> 
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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey


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