[Leica] Re: Closer Leica

[cummer at netvigator.com (Howard Cummer)]

Peter,
Did you notice when Julia was taking pictures of Jude Law - she 
manually wound the Leica M - even though it had a winder attached. 
Later taking pictures of Natalie the winder was engaged. And the SLR 
shutter sound! Yuck!
Cheers
Howard
(in Hong Kong where it is a cold 9 degrees this Monday morning)
On Monday, Feb 21, 2005, at 06:55 Asia/Hong_Kong, 
lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:58:55 -0800
> From: Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net>
> Subject: [Leica] Leica cinema sighting:  "Closer"
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> I saw the movie "Closer" last night.  Julia Roberts plays an American
> photographer in London.  She has a studio taking up what looks like an
> entire floor of an old building, with windows in every direction.
>
> Julia takes Jude Law's portrait with an MF camera on a tripod (didn't
> notice the brand).  Then she switches to a chrome M6, handheld.  I 
> couldn't
> quite make out what lens it was, but the lens had a focusing lever, 
> and it
> looked like one of the newer Solms lenses, not a 1980s 50 Summicron.
>
> Later in the same scene, Julia takes an M6 picture of Natalie Portman
> crying by windowlight, which ends up blown up about about 10 feet high 
> at
> an exhibition of Julia's photograph's. Great testament to the 
> resolution of
> Leica optics  :-)   Julia is also seen out and about with the M6, and 
> takes
> Clive Owens' picture with it as well.
>
> Natalie Portman has a great speech about how photographs can lie 
> because
> they make sad things look too beautiful.  Perhaps Mike Nichols has 
> read LUG
> debates about Salgado.   :-)
>
> The shutter sound used in the soundtrack, was, of course, an SLR 
> sound.  :-(
>
> IMHO, the movie itself is a bit depressing and shows four not 
> especially
> likeable characters degrading each other in the course of some 
> overlapping
> changes of partners. But it is very well made and well-acted.  No 
> regrets
> about having seen it.
>
> --Peter