This is the fifth edition of “On Set, Off Camera,” following the first in 2018, two more last year, and another earlier last month. They consist mainly of shots of actors and directors caught in off-camera moments during the making of a movie, sometimes off-set, at home and elsewhere. Some of these are candid and some are posed, but I think they’re all interesting, and in some cases quite unusual.

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Federico Fellini and Anita Ekberg during the making of La Dolce Vita (1960). The dramatic interplay of light and shadow is simply stunning. Her hair! The cigarette smoke!

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Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni in Rome, 1962.

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Jack Nicholson and Michelangelo Antonioni in 1975, I assume while making The Passenger.

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Nicholson and Miloš Forman during One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). Below that, Antonioni and Monica Vitti in 1964.

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François Truffaut at age 18 and Jean-Luc Godard at age 20 in 1950.

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Truffaut with Jean Cocteau at left, and with Françoise Dorléac in 1964 at right.

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With Jacqueline Bisset while making Day for Night (1973).

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On the set of The Godfather (1972) at left and The Godfather Part II at right. Below are Diane Keaton and Al Pacino from the first film.

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Stephen Spielberg directing Jurassic Park (1993).

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Akira Kurosawa meets John Ford.

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Kurosawa with Francis Coppola, Irvin Kirshner, Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, and Carroll Ballard at Coppola’s home in San Francisco, 1980.

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Stanley Kubrick, in the beginning.

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At left, Christiane Kubrick, Kubrick, and Kirk Douglas while making Paths of Glory (1957). At right, Kubrick with his daughter Vivian while shooting 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

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Ingmar Bergman

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At left, Bergman with cinematographer Sven Nykvist. At right, Bergman visits Peter Sellers on the set of Murder by Death (1976). I wonder how that came about.

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Bergman with Harriett Andersson. And with Liv Ullman below that.

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Robert De Niro in the early 1970s.

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Martin Scorsese with Jodie Foster and De Niro at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975.

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De Niro and Harvey Keitel at Cannes in 1976. Just a couple of nice boys.

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Scorsese with Wes Anderson.

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Natalie Portman while making Luc Besson’s Leon the Professional (1994).

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Sophia Loren and Cary Grant, probably during the making of Houseboat (1958).

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Sophia Loren, 1964.

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Winona Ryder, Jodie Foster and Julia Roberts, 1989.________________________________________________

David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor.

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In 1972, police in Anchorage, Alaska arrested Steve McQueen for speeding and doing doughnuts in a rented Oldsmobile Toronado. Have been unable to find out what he was doing there in the first place.

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Humphrey Bogart, director John Huston, and Katharine Hepburn during the shooting of The African Queen (1951).

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Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and director Michael Mann shooting the diner scene in Heat (1995).

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A celebration honoring John Wayne in 1969. From left, Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Rock Hudson, Fred MacMurray, Wayne, James Stewart, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Caine, and (I think) Lawrence Harvey.

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John Cassavetes

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This is my favorite shot of the whole bunch. Lloyd Bridges and his young son, Jeff.

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There are quite a few more photos I intended to include, but I think this is more than enough for one post. There’ll be plenty of time for those. So that’s it for now. Take it easy. — Ted Hicks

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