The Archive is a collection of cinephile-friendly findings around the web, including rare or never-before-seen photos, interviews, footage or any other bits related to classic or independent cinema. If you have any suggestions, feel free to e-mail in or tweet to @TheFilmStage. Check out the rundown below.
Listen to François Truffaut interview Alfred Hitchcock in 1962.
Restored prints of Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra are screening at Cannes Film Festival. [Fandor]
Listen to Operation Kino interview Glenn Frankel, author of the The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend. [Cinema Blend]
Watch the trailer for the restored Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy, now screening in NYC.
Watch a one-hour talk between David Denby and A.O. Scott on the future of film.
The 50 greatest matte paintings. [imgur]
Watch Alfred Hitchcock dissect editing, with examples from Psycho. [The Seventh Art]
Watch Orson Welles present prizes to Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky at Cannes in 1983, with the former getting booed. [@JigsawLounge]
Listen to last night’s William Friedkin Q & A after a screening of Sorcerer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. [Binary Bonsai]
Martin Scorsese‘s The King of Comedy is now available in HD for the first time and below, see the director discuss how Taxi Driver was almost made in black and white. [iTunes/Empire]
Robert Shaw relaxes on the set of Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws. [This Is Not Porn]
Watch a one-hour interview with Woody Allen from 1979. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Only God Forgives and more will screen at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival. [Film Independent]
Watch Charles Burnett‘s 1979 film Killer of Sheep.
A 16-year-old Sidney Lumet as Jesus in Journey to Jerusalem on Broadway in 1940. [@filmystic]
See more from The Archive here and feel free to e-mail or tweet to @TheFilmStage for submissions.