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 cinema. If you have any suggestions, feel free to e-mail in or tweet to @TheFilmStage. Check out the rundown below.
Federico Fellini‘s masterpiece 8 1/2 premiered 50 years ago today. Check out Martin Scorsese discussing the film below.
Through Monday, February 18th, The Criterion Collection is making all 800-plus films in their Hulu library free to stream, including recently added films from Roberto Rossellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yasujiro Ozu, Satyajit Ray, Charles Chaplin, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and more. [Hulu]
In honor of his 80th birthday this week, watch an interview with Costa-Gavras discussing Z.
In a newly discovered 1964 BBC interview, Alfred Hitchcock talks Psycho, saying, “The content was, I felt, rather amusing and it was a big joke. I was horrified to find some people took it seriously.” [The Guardian]
Watch a 25-minute interview with Steven Spielberg discussing Stanley Kubrick. [@LaFamaliaFilm]
Martin Scorsese‘s Taxi Driver: Then and Now. [Scouting NY]
Watch a behind-the-scenes video of Charlie Chaplin directing City Lights. [@emmafgreen]
Orson Welles on the set of Citizen Kane. [A Lady Loves]
Watch a dozen versions of The Kidnappers Foil, a film Melton Barker continually remade during four decades. One version is below and more here. [The Verge]
Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly on the set of How to Catch a Thief. [Reddit]
Watch Robert Altman‘s 1987 TV adaptation of Harold Pinter’s The Room. [The Playlist]
A photo of Luis Buñuel and Louis Malle together. [@emmafgreen]
Read Stanley Kubrick‘s script and notes for his unproduced Napoleon Bonaparte epic. [Movies.com]
Watch Krzysztof Kieslowski‘s 1988 drama A Short Film About Killing in full. [Cinephila & Beyond]
Marlon Brando and Bernardo Bertolucci on the set of Last Tango in Paris. [@LaFamiliaFilm]
A video essay on the world according to Koreeda Hirokazu. [BFI]
Sam Peckinpah on the set of The Wild Bunch. [Kino Images]
Watch David Lynch discuss his favorite photographs. [LA Review of Books]
One of the first drive-in movie theaters. [@emmafgreen]
Over 160 episodes of Inside the Actors Studio are available to stream. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
See more from The Archive here and feel free to e-mail or tweet to @TheFilmStage for submissions.