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.
Above, a photo of Alain Resnais and Delphine Seyrig on the set of Last Year at Marienbad. [Criterion Collection]
Watch Charlie Chaplin perform his famous “Dance of the Rolls” from The Gold Rush at a Hollywood party in 1926.
The drive-in movie theater hit its 80th anniversary this week. [Movies.com]
A photo of Stanley Kubrick on the set of Killer’s Kiss. [AICN]
Watch Joel and Ethan Coen and Frances McDormand discuss Fargo on Charlie Rose.
A restored print of Michael Cimino‘s Heaven’s Gate will hit UK theaters on August 2nd. [Blu-ray.com]
A photo of Yasujiro Ozu and Sadao Yamanaka, before being sent off to Manchuria. [Distancetouch]
Watch an 80-minute discussion from 2010 with cinematographer Robert Elswit and his wife, Helen Elswit, a visual effects supervisor for such films as Master and Commander and The Perfect Storm. [Cigs & Red Vines]
Sundance Film Festival has created a Roger Ebert scholarship for young film critics to attend the festival. [Razoo]
Watch a one-hour talk between Steven Spielberg and John Williams on the art of collaboration. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
Akira Kurosawa on Toshiro Mifune.
Mifune had a kind of talent I had never encountered before in the Japanese film world. It was, above all, the speed with which he expressed himself that was astounding. The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three. The speed of his movements was such that he said in a single action what took ordinary actors three separate movements to express. He put forth everything directly and boldly, and his sense of timing was the keenest I had ever seen in a Japanese actor. And yet with all his quickness, he also had surprisingly fine sensibilities.
Watch a rare interview with Joel and Ethan Coen for Blood Simple.
A May 31st, 1921 photo of Buster Keaton and Natalie Talmadge on their wedding day. [Filmmaker IQ]
An interview with Walter Murch on editing and his translations of Curzio Malaparte. [Filmmaker Magazine]
Watch a documentary on the making of Martin Scorsese‘s After Hours and a batch of deleted scenes. [No Film School]
Hirokazu Kore-eda recalls seeing Akira Kurosawa‘s Ikiru for the first time. [Film.com]
“There used to be a great art-house film theatre in Ginza that I’d go to when I was cutting classes in college. I would just hang out there and see movies. When I went, there’d be a lot of office workers, a lot of salarymen who played hooky from work, some taking naps in the theatre. But most watched a lot of movies. There was one instance—in the spring of my 19th year—when they screened Kurosawa’s Ikiru. At the end of this film, everybody in the theatre stood up and clapped. There were no actors, no directors—nobody was there to be clapped for. I understand that you’d clap at the end of a play or a live show, but for a film, this was a really new experience for me. Everybody there, they really weren’t expecting this. They were just looking for a place to leave their responsibilities. I think they really enjoyed this movie from the bottom of their heart. That was the moment when I realized that film is really powerful, that film is amazing. And I think that experience strongly influenced my decision to not become a novelist, but to make films.”
A photo on the set of Howard Hawks‘ To Have and Have Not with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. [Eloquento]
Watch a 46-minute interview with Roger Deakins on shooting Coens‘ The Man Who Wasn’t There.
Go through a timeline of the making of Cleopatra.
A photo of Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, age 18 and 20, respectively. [Distancetouch]
Watch a 1999 BBC documentary on Stephen King titled Shining in the Dark, featuring clips from The Shining, Stand By Me, Carrie and more. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
Watch a one-hour documentary on Being There writer Jerzy Kosinski featuring Roman Polanski, Mickey Rourke and more.
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