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 are candid while others are obviously posed for promotional purposes. I’ve indicated photo credits when I know who took the shot.

I think this is a good batch

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Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman

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Marcello Mastroianni

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Jean-Luc Godard

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Anna Karina & Marcello Mastroianni

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Anna Karina & Michael Caine

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Anna Karina & Jean-Luc Godard in Copenhagen, 1962

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François Truffaut  (I really like this shot.)

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John Cassavetes

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Orson Welles, 1970

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DP Sven Nykvist with Ingmar Bergman, checking the shot.

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DP John Seale on Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). That’s some rig.

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Roman Polanski and Elia Kazan up close on Rosemary’s Baby set, 1968.  Photo by Shahrokh Hatami.

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Roman Polanski, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, Chinatown (1974). Photo by Steve Shapiro.

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Alfred Hitchcock and Janet Leigh, Psycho (1960).

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Clockwork Orange (1971),  Stanley Kubrick with camera at right, Malcolm McDowell in center.

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Lolita (1962), Kubrick and Sue Lyon.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter with director Don Siegel.

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12 Angry Men (1957). Director Sidney Lumet with Henry Fonda across the table.

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The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), director John Frankenheimer (second from left), Burt Lancaster (second from right).

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For a Few Dollars More (1965), director Sergio Leone, Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood.

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Papillon (1973). Ali McGraw and Steve McQueen on set.

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The Getaway (1972). James Garner visits Steve McQueen and director Sam Peckinpah on set.

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James Garner and his daughter get an autograph (I’m assuming) from Gary Cooper, 1960.

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Future actress Brooke Smith with family friend Robert Redford during the making of Three Days of the Condor (1975).

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Jean-Louis Trintingnant and daughter Marie.

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John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands with son Nick (later a director himself).

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Romy Schneider

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Claudia Cardinale

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Tony Curtis in make-up for Some Like It Hot (1959), photo by Richard C. Miller.

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Marlon Brando being made up by Dick Smith for The Godfather (1972).

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This is so great. Robert Duvall displays Brando’s lines for a scene from The Godfather, James Caan at left. Not exactly the Method, but it worked for Brando.

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Gerard Depardieu and Sylvia Kristel

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Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch, 1990.

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Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina

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Rossellini, Lynch, Fellini

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Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward

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Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann

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Isabelle Huppert and Emmanuelle Béart

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In the Heat of the Night  (1967). Sidney Poitier, Lee Grant, Rod Steiger.

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Director Jonathan Demme and Anthony Hopkins

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Footwear – Steve McQueen and Sofia Coppola.

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Toshiro Mifune while making Grand Prix (1966), directed by  John Frankenheimer. Then pigeons in Venice in 1961; with noodles; and with Akira Kurosawa in the 1950s.

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Willem Dafoe and director Martin Scorsese shooting The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) in Morocco.

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Protesters at the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan on Friday, August 12, 1988. I was there that day for an afternoon showing. Pretty unsettling having people on the other side of police barricades looking at you with hate. And I really miss the Ziegfeld.

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Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born filmmaker, poet, artist, has been called the “godfather of American avant-garde cinema.” This shot, taken on a rainy day in the year 2000 appears to be near Anthology Film Archives, which he co-founded in 1970, on East 2nd Street and 2nd Avenue in the East Village of Manhattan. He died in 2019 at age 96. A major figure in the film world.

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Pocket Money (1972). Paul Newman and Lee Marvin. Are these guys cool or what?

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Okay, that’s a wrap for this one. See you next time. Be careful out there. — Ted Hicks

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