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 tweet to @ThseFilmStage. Check out the rundown below.
Above, Alfred Hitchcock enjoys a go-kart ride in 1960. [@moviesdotcom]
Read the only foreword Stanley Kubrick ever wrote, for Krzysztof Kieślowski‘s The Decalogue. [Nick Wrigley]
Watch an unaired pilot of The Orson Welles Show in 1979. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
Watch the trailer for Satyajit Ray‘s The Big City, which is getting a restored theatrical re-release in the U.K. on August 16th and hits The Criterion Collection four days later. [The Criterion Cast]
Watch the feature-length documentary Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven’s Gate. [YouTube, not embeddable]
Watch Alain Delon and Jean-Pierre Melville discuss their gangster masterpiece Le Samouraï. [Cinephilia and Beyond]
Willem Dafoe has been confirmed in the lead role of Abel Ferrara‘s Pier Paolo Pasolini feature film, with financing set. [Cineuropa]
Watch the full 2002 episode of Martin Scorsese on Inside the Actors Studio. [The Playlist]
Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin have lunch at The Brown Derby in Hollywood, CA in 1947. [Filmmaker IQ]
Watch Dante Spinotti discuss shooting Michael Mann‘s Manhunter.
Watch a 20-minute Q&A with Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood.
Watch a 33-minute documentary on The Shining.
Priscilla Lane and Cary Grant in a promo shot for Arsenic and Old Lace. [Classic Movies Digest]
Watch a 36-minute interview with Al Pacino, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone and more on Scarface.
Watch an animated video featuring Alfred Hitchcock‘s explanation of a MacGuffin. [Open Culture]
Watch 10 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from The Dirty Dozen.
Watch an 80-minute interview with Paul Schrader. [The Seventh Art]
Watch a feature-length documentary on Dario Argento from 1985. [The Seventh Art]
A young Allan Konigsberg (aka Woody Allen) with sister & future producer Letty Aronson. [@sonyclassics]
Watch 10 minutes of b-roll footage from the set of Boogie Nights.
Watch Martin Scorsese‘s analysis of Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho.
Watch an hour-long documentary The Camera That Changed The World, about the hand-held camera system. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
Watch an interview with the Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne on La Promesse and Rosetta.
Watch George A. Romero‘s Night of the Living Dead in 1080p HD. [@iznogoodgood]
See more from The Archive here and feel free to tweet to @TheFilmStage for submissions.