In the recent tradition of “Songs About…” threads, let’s do one about movies & photography.
Alien Ant Farm “Movies”
Def Leppard “Photograph”
Duran Duran “Girls on Film”
J. Geils Band “Freeze-Frame”
Peter Gabriel “Family Snapshot”
Quarterflash “Take Another Picture”
Rush “The Camera Eye”
Steely Dan “Everybody’s Gone to the Movies”
The Cure “Pictures of You”
Yes “Into the Lens (I Am A Camera)”
“Camera”-R.E.M.
Paul Simon -“Kodachrome”
“Kodachrome” by Simon & Garfunkel
Ninja’d!
“Celluloid Heroes” by the Kinks
“Act Naturally”-Buck Owens
“Take a Picture” by Filter
Maybe a cheat since it’s a theme song from a TV show, but The Unknown Stuntman (theme of The Fall Guy and sung by its star, Lee Majors) is obviously about making movies and TV and it references a lot of stars from that era.
“Saturday Night at the Movies” - The Drifters
“Cinema” - Benny Benassi
“Silver Screen (Shower Scene)” - Felix Da Housecat
“Screenwriter’s Blues”-Soul Coughing
“Photograph” by Ringo Starr
“Science Fiction/Double Feature”-The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack (Richard O’Brien)
“She’s in Parties”-Bauhaus
Depeche Mode: Photographic and A Photograph Of You
Neil Young: Motion Pictures
It’s not solely about motion pictures, but it’s called Motion Pictures.
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Deep Blue Something:
I think Ultravox’s “Reap the Wild Wind” is about the movie of the same name.
Big Audio Dynamite’s “E=mc2” is about Nicholas Roeg movies.
IIRC, that one’s mostly about an assassination, but it’s been awhile.
How about:
The Friends of Mr Cairo - Jon and Vangelis.
**Turning Japanese **- The Vapors