Remembering Nicholas Ray on his birthday 🎂
With James Dean at the Griffith Park Observatory, during the filming of Rebel Without a Cause
📷 Floyd McCarty, 1955
Nicholas Ray at his desk
📷 Dennis Stock, 1962
"Mr. Ray may well be his own most complex, riveting hero. He's a romantic with a fiercely realistic view of things."
- Vincent Canby
Coffee with Nicholas Ray ☕️
He's on the set of the Wim Wenders's The American Friend. Ray had a cameo in the film, along with fellow filmmakers Jean Eustache & Samuel Fuller.
📷 Caterine Milinaire, 1977
Nicholas Ray tries on a suit in the atelier of Italian tailor and painter Aldobrando Silvestri during the XVIII Venice International Film Festival Venice
📷 Mario De Biasi, 1957
Nicholas Ray by Marvin Koner, Cannes, 1958
According to @aoscott, for Ray "...the genre paradigm is a loose and fungible framework, a scaffolding for the flights of intense and painful feeling that were the director’s specialty."
Today is the great director's birthday 🎂
A passport photo of Nicholas Ray in his later years
"He was like Penelope at the loom: he would get something done during the day and then pull it apart at night."
- Susan Ray, talking about her husband's film projects before his death in 1979
A moving photo by Marvin Koner of Nicholas Ray on the beach at Cannes, 1958, during the filming of Bitter Victory.
"Hardly a frame is lacking grace and danger."
- David Thomson
"I'm the best damn filmmaker in the world who has never made one entirely good, entirely satisfactory film."
- Nicholas Ray to Dennis Hopper
📷 Mark Goldstein
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