Rent Smash His Camera (2010)

Name: Smash His Camera
Rating: 3.5

3.5 of 5 from 51 ratings

1h 30min

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, Marlon Brando broke his jaw and Steve McQueen gave him a look that would have killed,To the celebrities he pursued, photographer Ron Galella was the beast who threatened beauty. As it turned out, he gave them a strange and lasting beauty they might never have known without him. Inherent in the story of this notorious paparazzo, superbly captured here by celebrated director Leon Gast (When we were Kings), are the complex issues of the right to privacy, freedom of the press and the ever-growing vortex of celebrity worship. He sneaked around and invaded and bribed and held up his camera and shot till he dropped (or someone dropped him).
His was the artistry of the sniper. Yet Galella found something essential in his real-life subjects, and he gave it permanence.
Actors:: Floyd Abrams, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Joseph Basile, Harry Benson, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Dick Cavett, Charles Chaplin, Chuck Close, Brad Elterman, David Frost, Bonnie Fuller, Clark Gable, Betty Galella, Robert Kennedy Jr., Jacqueline Kennedy, Brad Pitt, Robert Redford, Britney Spears
Directors:: Leon Gast
Producers:: Linda Saffire, Adam Schlesinger
Others:: Leon Gast
Studio:: Artefact Media
Genres:: Documentary, Special Interest
Collections:: Brando: A Centenary Celebration, JFK on Screen
Awards:: 2010 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award Documentary