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.
In celebration of Clint Eastwood‘s 83rd birthday today, watch him on a 2003 episode of Inside the Actors Studio and see a behind the scenes still on the set of Sergio Leone‘s The Good, The Bad and the Ugly above.
NYC’s Bryant Park Summer Film Festival includes Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The African Queen, Frenzy, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Billy Wilder‘s A Foreign Affair, which can be streamed below in full. [Bryant Park]
Read Peter Bogdanovich‘s top ten American films of 1939, including Stagecoach and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. [Stargayzing]
Watch a 1997 feature-length documentary on Michelangelo Antonioni. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
A handwritten script for Jean-Luc Godard‘s Contempt recently sold for $186,800. [Times Live]
Read a 1957 LIFE magazine article on the death of the studio system and what replaced it in Hollywood. [Reddit]
Watch the recent PBS documentary Mel Brooks: Make a Noise and see a photo of Brooks with Alfred Hitchcock and Anne Bancroft above. [First Showing]
Paolo Sorrentino will return to Naples for his next film. [THR]
The real couple behind Richard Linklater‘s Before Sunrise. [Slate]
Go behind the scenes of the making of Disney’s Pinocchio. [Deja View]
Watch a 1992 documentary on Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, The Conformist and more. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
Read a recent interview with Abbas Kiarostami in which he says, “The situation in Iran has never been this dark.” [THR]
Read Alfred Hitchock‘s rules for watching Psycho. [Open Culture]
We won’t allow you to cheat yourself. You must see PSYCHO from the very beginning. Therefore, do not expect to be admitted into the theatre after the start of each performance of the picture. We say no one — and we mean no one — not even the manager’s brother, the President of the United States, or the Queen of England (God bless her)!
Steven Soderbergh says his Kafka director’s cut will make “it a little more abstract and more of a hardcore art movie.” [Empire]
Watch a brief documentary on Gregg Toland and the filming of Orson Welles‘ Citizen Kane. [Cinephilia & Beyond]
Brooklyn Academy of Music’s The Harvey Theater will install the Steinberg Screen, “a 35-foot-by-19-foot digital projection screen, with 42 accompanying surround-sound speakers.” [NYTimes]
A 1963 photo of Woody Allen at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Filmmaker IQ]
See more from The Archive here and feel free to e-mail or tweet to @TheFilmStage for submissions.