Behind the Scene

Dziga Vertov, The Man with the Movie Camera, 1929

Max Ophüls (left) and the actor Anton Walbrook on the set of Ophuls’ movie “La Ronde”, 1950

 Erich Von Stroheim Awaits His Cue

 Mary Ellen Mark, Fredrico Fellini on the Set of "Satyricon," Rome, 1969

 Stanley Kubrick & Malcolm McDowell on the set of A Clockwork Orange

 You know who and you know who

 Sergej Eisenstein

 Godard

 Chic Johnson and Ole Olsen between scenes of Hellzapoppin' 

Buster Keaton

Mr. Keaton again

Charles Chaplin

Tim Burton

Hans Richter on “Dreams that Money Can Buy”, 1944 

 Channing Pollock makes a dramatic entrance in Georges Franju’s Judex (1963)

 Josef Von Sternberg & Marlene Dietrich on the set of Dishonored

  Vittorio De Sica directs Sophia Loren in Matrimonio all'italiana

 Jules Dassin gets Gina Lollobrigida and Yves Montand positioned just right

 Michelangelo Antonioni directs Ettore Manni and Eleonora Rossi Drago in Le amiche

 Lina Wertmüller with Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini in La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia

 Helmut Newton, David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini on the set of Blue Velvet

 Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe on-set The Seven Year Itch

 Richard Fleischer, in diving suit during filming of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”

 Fritz Lang & the monocle he sported during the filming of Metropolis (1927)

 Leni Riefenstahl

 Orson Welles

 David Lean in 1946 

René Clair on the set of his movie “Air pur”, 1938

Alessandro Blasetti and cinematographer Václav Vich frame a shot on the set of Quattro passi fra le nuvole

 Ingmar Bergman

John Cassavetes filming Shadows

Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Federico Fellini rides the camera on the set of Roma

John Huston shows the exact angle he wants a scene shot from for Beat the Devil

 Robert Altman directs Quintet

 John Huston and cinematographer Oswald Morris figure out the next shot of The Mackintosh Man

 Luis Buñuel guides Catherine Deneuve through the intricate character of Tristana

 Cecil B. DeMille

 Fritz Lang work out an unusual angle for a scene of You Only Live Once

 Fritz Lang on the set of Metropolis

 Michael Curtiz looks on approvingly as Doris Day prepares for the scene

 Howard Hawks and Angie Dickinson on the set of Rio Bravo

 John Ford

 Samuel Fuller directs The Big Red One

 James Dean and Giant director George Stevens

 In his only foray as a director, James Cagney gives instructions to Jacques Aubuchon on the set of Short Cut to Hell

 François Truffaut directs La peau douce

 Claude Chabrol in 1979 with actress Bernadette Lafont and his wife Stephane Audran

 Jon Voight, director John Schlesinger and Dustin Hoffman at work on Midnight Cowboy

 Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood during the filming of Dirty Harry

 Mary Ellen Mark - Francis Ford Coppola and Diane Lane on the Set of Rumblefish, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1983

 Spike Lee

Saint Quentin 

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