Saturday, May 19th 2012

Archive for the ‘Still’ Category

 
 


May
2012
6
Michelangelo Antonioni & Monica Vitti at the Venice International Film Festival in 1964 with Golden Lion winner Red Desert

Michelangelo Antonioni & Monica Vitti at the Venice International Film Festival in 1964 with Golden Lion winner Red Desert

Rare wire photo of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni with lead actress Monica Vitti attending the 1964 Venice International Film Festival with the Red Desert (Il deserto rosso) which went on to win its prestigious Golden Lion award. Note the Red Desert was Antonioni’s first foray into color. On home video the The Criterion Blu-ray is a ...

 

 
 


Apr
2012
8
Dolores del Rio in Bird of Paradise (1932)

Dolores del Rio in Bird of Paradise (1932)

Dolores del Rio is the island girl Luana in King Vidor’s 1932 adventure romance Bird of Paradise...

 



 
 


Apr
2012
8
Michelangelo Antonioni Making the 7 Minute Long Shot in The Passenger 1975

Michelangelo Antonioni Making the 7 Minute Long Shot in The Passenger 1975

It took eleven days to film for Michelangelo Antonioni in Vera, Almería, Spain, to finally get his seven minute long closing tracking shot for The Passenger. Here we see Antonioni just outside the make shift hotel entrance with the Westcam (used to film it) hovering to his right. It was a technically precise shot that ...

 

 
 


Mar
2012
4
Bisset, Lindsay, Gish & Truffaut at the New York Film Festival Premiere of Day for Night

Bisset, Lindsay, Gish & Truffaut at the New York Film Festival Premiere of Day for Night

Rare photograph of Jacqueline Bisset, (then) New York Mayor John Lindsay, Lillian Gish and Francois Truffaut for the New York Film Festival premiere of Day for Night (1973). What makes this photograph even more special is the fact that Truffaut dedicated this film to both Lillian and Dorothy Gish...

 

 
 


Jan
2012
1
Behind the Scenes on Foxy Brown

Behind the Scenes on Foxy Brown

Rare behind the scenes photograph of Pam Grier and Antonio Fargas on the set of the 1974 cult hit, Foxy Brown...

 

 
 


Oct
2011
2
Richard Dreyfuss is Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Richard Dreyfuss is Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Love this classic photograph of actor Richard Dreyfuss in Steven Spielberg’s, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. To me this photograph does a great job at capturing the passion of pursuit of his character Roy Neary who will push past everything to reach answers in his quest...