This is the seventh edition of “On Set, Off Camera.” It consists 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 unusual, possibly revealing.
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Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson on set during filming of The Shining (1980).
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Kubrick on various sets.
The Killing (1956)
Spartacus (1960)
Ping pong during Lolita (1962).
Notice Kubrick reflected in the mirror at right in the shot below. Pretty cool.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut (1999
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Early-version selfies from Kubrick and Yasujiro Ozu (!).
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Charlie Chaplin
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Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy
Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy
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John Huston while shooting Moby Dick (1956).
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Hitchcock in Cannes 1963
Hitchcock on set of Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window set
The set for Rope (1948)
The Birds (1963)
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Sergio Leone adds some blood while directing Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
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Filming Billy Batts getting stomped in Goodfellas (1990).
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Orson Welles
Welles with Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh on Touch of Evil (1958).
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Federico Fellini
Fellini at Termini Station in Rome, 1954.
Fellini with Claudia Cardinale, 1962.
Fellini with Giulietta Masina on La Strada (1954).
Felllini and Masina at home with a few awards, 1961.
Fellini reflected.
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Akira Kurosawa on the set of Yojimbo (1961).
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Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959)
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Jean-Pierre Léaud in Cannes, 1959.
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Boris Karloff takes a smoke break while filming The Mummy (1932), while below that, Elsa Lanchester takes a tea break during the making of The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
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Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chaplin.
Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico (second woman unidentified).
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Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel with Salvador Dali, 1929.
Luis Buñuel with Jeanne Moreau.
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Jeanne Moreau
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Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury have lunch while making The Court Jester (1955), an historical musical comedy with Danny Kaye. Angela chows down with a cheeseburger. Nice detail.
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Peter Falk, producer Martin Manulus, and Jack Lemmon during the making of Clive Donner’s Luv (1967).
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Sam Peckinpah and The Wild Bunch (1969).
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Michelangelo Antonioni
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Stephen Spielberg, Harrison Ford, and Sean Connery on location for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
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Sean Penn and director Clint Eastwood during the filming of Mystic River (2003).
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Anna Karina
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Alain Delon
Alain Delon with his mother.
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Jean-Luc Godard painting Jean-Paul Belmondo’s face for Pierrot le Fou (1965).
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Godard during the making of Contempt (1963). This is too carefully composed to be candid, but it’s a great shot.
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Sidney Lumet at left, Satyajit Ray at right.
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David Lynch
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Parting words from Godard.
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That’s it for this one. Stay tuned for the next one. Que sera, sera. — Ted Hicks
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Films etc. 
Terrific!
Wonderful.
As Danny would say, “Get it? Got it. Good.”
Now that’s a great collection! I’m at Mark Roland’s and he’s been haranguing me for a couple of days about how great Trump is, what a criminal a-hole Biden is, “What do you have against RFK? Don’t you know his record?” He’s completely subsumed like one of those jelly fish that absorbs its mate or something. When he gets back on track he’s charming company. I went to an AA meeting yesterday. Excellent. Full house (20 or so). Topic was “anger.” I mentioned it to Mark. I thought he would benefit. He was like “Well, I’m very well known around here. People would think of me differently if they thought I was a drunk. I’ve been sober almost 40 years. What’s in it for me? I know what it’s all about.” etc. etc.
He’s nuts. I should introduce him to Elizabeth. (But when he’s not ranting about Trump, Putin (a misunderstood genius statesman) Nancy Pelosi (a crook who feeds investment information to her husband who invests in things before they are announced to the public….) etc.
I’ll be glad to get back to the Southern Hemisphere.
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