This is the tenth edition of “On Set, Off Camera,” closing out 2024. As with previous editions, 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 obviously posed, but I think they’re all interesting.

_________________________________________________________

Orson Welles and Anthony Perkins, maybe laughing at how hilarious Franz Kafka’s The Trial was going to be when they filmed it.

__________________________________________________________

Director Blake Edwards shows how to throw a pie at Natalie Wood during the making of The Great Race (1965).

_________________________________________________________

Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes.

____________________________________________________

Cassavetes with Ben Gazarra and Peter Falk while making Husbands (1970).

____________________________________________________

Camera Work

Sofia Coppola

Cary Grant

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Ida Lupino

Jean-Luc Godard & cinematographer Raoul Coutard

Fritz Lang

Stanley Kubrick

Frances Ford Coppola – Godfather II

Godard

____________________________________________________

Pier Paolo Pasolini at age 18.

______________________________________________________

Pasolini with Maria Callas and two doggies.

_____________________________________________________

Pasolini on set during the making of The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964).

_____________________________________________________

Luis Buñuel carries a cross of his own for The Milky Way (1969).

_____________________________________________________

Young Stanley Kubrick.

____________________________________________________

Kubrick at work.

_______________________________________________________

Stanley demonstrates the “Kubrick Stare,” which can be seen in A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Full Metal Jacket (1987). This is actually a thing. You can read about it here.

______________________________________________________

Sophia Loren in Cannes, 1955.

_________________________________________________________

Loren with her mother, Romilda.

_____________________________________________________

Loren in the market for jellied eels. Yum.

_____________________________________________________

James Stewart in the midst of crew and equipment while starring in Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).

________________________________________________________

Director John Schlesinger on location with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight while shooting Midnight Cowboy (1969).

______________________________________________________

François Truffaut on set in the midst of shooting Fahrenheit 451 (1966).

__________________________________________________________

Sidney Lumet directs Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Al Pacino behind him.

__________________________________________________________

James Garner gets ready to drive in John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix (1966).

______________________________________________________

Akira Kurosawa directing the climactic battle in the rain in Seven Samurai (1954).

______________________________________________________

Jean-Pierre Léaud and François Truffaut at the Cannes Film Festival, 1959.

_______________________________________________________

Catherine Deneuve and François Truffaut

___________________________________________________

Truffaut with Jean-Pierre Léaud and Jacqueline Bisset while making Day for Night (1973).

_____________________________________________________

Ingmar Bergman

_______________________________________________________

Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston at home on Mulholland Drive in 1971. Below that, Jack looking frosty in Aspen, Colorado, 1981.

________________________________________________

David Lynch

________________________________________________

Scorsese and De Niro on Taxi Driver (1976).  Coppola and Brando on The Godfather (1972).

____________________________________________________

Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni taking a break while making 8 ½ (1963).

________________________________________________________

Daria Helprin and future bank robber Mark Frechette being artistic during the making  of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point (1970).

____________________________________________

Ernest Borgnine enjoys a popsicle during a break from Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969).

______________________________________________________

Agnès Varda

____________________________________________________

Well, that about wraps it up. See you next year. — Ted Hicks

____________________________________________________