As with previous editions, this 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 more than a few are really special.

Like the one below, for starters.

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Here’s Jack!

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François Truffaut

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Louis Lumière (1948, the year of his death, if this date is accurate for the photo)

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Truffaut and  Jean-Pierre Léaud. I love this.

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Laura Harring, David Lynch, Naomi Watts. Probably a promotional photo for Mulholland Drive (2001). Beautiful lighting. They look great.

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Jean Seberg

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Anouk Aimée

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Sharon Tate

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Judy Garland relaxing on the set of The Wizard of Oz, unfazed by munchkins nearby.

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Maureen O’Sullivan while making Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) in a definitely pre-Code costume.

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Johnny Weismuller, the most famous movie Tarzan, seen here with his pal Cheetah and then later in life.

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Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh on their way to Hawaii, 1950. Photo by Eve Johnson.

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Steven Spielberg, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw while making Jaws(1975). Harrison Ford and Spielberg on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). James Cameron directing Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio during Titanic (1997).

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Orson Welles & Rita Hayworth

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Mickey Rooney & Ava Gardner

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Charles Bronson,  Claudia Cardinale, & Jason Robards during the making of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Bronson looking very cool.

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Director Werner Herzog wrangles rats for a scene while filming Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).

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Klaus Kinski and Bruno Ganz in front of posters for their films Nosferatu the Vampyre and Knife in the Head (1978).

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Klaus Kinski with possibly a self-portrait, 1959.

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Kinski, with daughter Nastassja and future ex-wife Brigitte Ruth Tocki, in an undated photo.

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Ingmar Bergman directs Death in The Seventh Seal (1957).

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Bergman with Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann during Persona (1966).

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Bergman with young actor Bertil Guve while making Fanny and Alexander (1982).

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Bergman takes a rest.

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Two looks at Isabelle Huppert. The first in New York City, photographed by Leonard Freed. And then a stunning color portrait.

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Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, checking things out.

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John Wayne plays chess on the set of Rio Bravo (1959) while cast members John Russell, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson (definitely not in costume), and Dean Martin pretend to look on. Just noticed Duke is sitting in Dean Martin’s chair.

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Jack Lemmon, Shirley McClaine, and director Billy Wilder laughing it up at lunch, probably while making The Apartment (1960).

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Ingrid Bergman in 1952 with twin daughters Isotta Ingrid Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini.

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Tough guy Steve McQueen

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Marlon Brando

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German actor Brigitte Helm (Maria in Metropolis – 1927).

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Experimental filmmaker Maya Deren

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Stanley Kubrick

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On the set of Cape Fear (1962). Lori Martin, who plays Gregory Peck’s daughter, with an unidentified boy on her lap, Robert Mitchum behind her. He looks threatening just standing there looking at the camera. Of course, his lethal performance as Max Cady makes it easy to project that onto him.

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Mitchum with director Charles Laughton during the making of The Night of the Hunter (1955).

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Stanley Kubrick with Steadicam operator Elizabeth Ziegler on his final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

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Kubrick

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John Waters

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day Lewis on the set of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002).

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Shooting Gort’s entrance in Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), a film I loved then and still do.

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Alain Delon and Monica Vitti, photographed by Robert Frank, 1964.

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Monica Vitti

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Giuletta Massina

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Messina and Federico Fellini

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder through the years. He made a lot of films and put in some hard miles. Died in 1982 at age 37. Color photo by Helmut Newton, which says a lot.

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John Cassavetes

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Jean-Luc Godard

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Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and part of Robert Altman at an event for Altman’s 3 Women (1977).

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Monica Vitti and Michelangelo Antonioni at what might be the Paris premiere of L’Avventura (1960).

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Marilyn Monroe in a probably posed rooftop shot in New York City. Below that, a more interesting, seemingly off-guard, shot. There’s something sad about it.

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Agnès Varda

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Filming the changing room scene at Coney Island with Buster Keaton and Edward Brophy in The Cameraman (1928), the last great Keaton silent. Below this is a clip of the scene itself. It’s a hoot.

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That about does it for this one. See you next time. — Ted Hicks

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