Remembering Michelangelo Antonioni on his birthday 🎂
📷 Raymond Depardon, 1970
"The enigmas in Antonioni’s work are as subject to time as monuments are to erosion, & the achievements of some films can offset or explain the apparent, or early, limits of others."
- David Thomson
Michelangelo Antonioni by Santi Visalli, 1975
"I need to follow my characters beyond the moments conventionally considered important, to show them even when everything appears to have been said."
Coffee with the Masters on #NationalCoffeeDay ☕️
John Boorman, Billy Wilder, Michelangelo Antonioni (whose birthday is today) & Satyajit Ray get together to talk during the 35th International Cannes Film festival
📷 Ralph Gatti, May 14, 1982
Michelangelo Antonioni by Elliott Erwitt
Rome, 1965
"Antonioni embodied a time in mid-century when cinemagoing was an intellectual pursuit, when purposely opaque passages in famously difficult films spurred long nights of smoky argument at sidewalk cafés."
- Rick Lyman
Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of Blow Up
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1966
"It's only when I press my eye against the camera and begin to move the actors that I get an exact idea of the scene."
Michelangelo Antonioni & actress Daria Halprin during the filming of Zabriske Point, 1978
A fabulous shot by Bruce Davidson!
Michelangelo Antonioni by Renaud Monfourny, 2000s
"He challenged moviegoers with an intense focus on intentionally vague characters and a disdain for such mainstream conventions as plot, pacing and clarity."
- Rick Lyman
Michelangelo Antonioni hanging out at Zabriskie Point
📷 Bruce Davidson, 1968
"His earlier films have made us think of Antonioni as vulnerable; he shouldn't have exposed himself like this."
- Roger Ebert
"A maligned masterpiece."
- David Jenkins
I just re-read Julio Cortázar's marvellous story "The Devil's Drool", aka "Blow-Up", based on a story told to him by photographer Sergio Larrain. It was the inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up. amzn.to/2WocsAZ
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Happy birthday Julie Andrews! 🎂
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1957 #Jump!
Love these Gordon Parks photos of Julie Andrews & Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, 1960.
Happy birthday Julie Andrews 🎂
With Rex Harrison on the set of My Fair Lady
One of Cecil Beaton's best photographs
bromide fibre print, 1956 @NPGLondon
Remembering Richard Harris on his birthday 🎂
📷 John Stoddart, 1990
"I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief, wrath deeply, like an Irishman."
Richard Harris on the set of Ridley Scott's Gladiator
A beautiful portrait by Jaap Buitendijk, 2000
Richard Harris at the opening night of Camelot in New York
📷 Elliott Landy, 1968
Hey! Isn't that John Wayne?
Remembering Philippe Noiret on his birthday 🎂
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1989
"He was a friend, a brother, someone I could count on for every adventure and whom I tried to serve by giving him different characters to play."
- Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Noiret at home, in a great photograph by Micheline Pelletier
Philippe Noiret with Jean Rochefort & Jean-Pierre Marielle
📷 Luc Roux, Paris, 1996
Remembering Laurence Harvey on his birthday 🎂
Having fun on the set of The Alamo with John Wayne
📷 Wayne Miller, 1959
Laurence Harvey & Frank Sinatra in a @CentralParkNYC scene from 1962's The Manchurian Candidate.
📷 Phil Stanziola, via @librarycongress
Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962
There were two uncredited still photographers on the set: Bill Craemer & William Read Woodfield, neither of whom I know. But this is a great shot!
Remembering Walter Matthau on his birthday 🎂
With Jack Lemmon in The Odd Couple, 1968. Great drawing by the sublime Al Hirschfeld.
Art Carney & Walter Matthau, the original Felix & Oscar on Broadway.
📷 Mark Kauffman, 1965
Art Carney woos Veruschka, who is being carried by Walter Matthau & Mike Nichols. Looks like Matthau is doing all the heavy lifting.
📷 Bert Stern, Vogue, 1965
Remembering Vladimir Horowitz on his birthday 🎂
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1966
"The music is behind those dots. You search for it, and that is what I mean by the grand manner. I play, so to speak, from the other side of the score, looking back."
Vladimir Horowitz by Jack Mitchell, 1988
"He hated to record in short sections & would do so only under duress. His artistry was worked out in the larger details. The smaller details came on the spur of the moment."
- his producer, Thomas Frost
Vladimir Horowitz by Ian Berry, 1982
"His Chopin is like a fire-ball exploding."
- Rudolf Serkin