Happy Birthday Ingrid Bergman!!!

A 58-page memo that Orson Welles wrote in 1957 was recently rediscovered.

Andy Warhol interviews Alfred Hitchcock

Warhol openly proclaimed that he was nervous upon meeting the legendary director, and posed with Hitchcock by kneeling at his feet.

My Best Friend’s Birthday (Quentin Tarantino, 1987)

My Best Friend’s Birthday is the first movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It was was shot on 16mm and made in between 1984 and 1987, and the original version clocked in at about 70 minutes long. The film had caught fire in a editing lab and most of the ending of the film was lost. The surviving part of the film can be seen above.

And you can also see the whole script here.

Last film of Laurel & Hardy c.1956

This home movie was filmed in c. 1956 at the Reseda, California home of Stan Laurel’s daughter, Lois. It features Stan Laurel and his wife Ida Laurel, Oliver Hardy and his wife Virginia Jones, Andy Wade (who shot the film), Stan’s daughter Lois, her husband Rand Brooks and their children Randy and Laurie.

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maudit:

“Making a Living (1914) is the first film appearance of Charlie Chaplin and one of the few, in those early years, in which he does not play the Tramp.” (IMDb) Watch the film here

cinearchive:

Indonesian Exploitation Cinema

A 25-minute documentary on the Indonesian movie boom of the 1970s and early 1980s. If you’ve never explored Indonesian exploitation and horror filmmaking, this is a great documentary to get yourself familiar.

Full videos can be seen here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Sam Fuller screentesting for The Godfather accompanied by Al Pacino.

Diary (2010), the last short film by Tim Hetherington

“Diary is a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It’s a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see in the media.” -Tim Hetherington, British photojournalist and director of Academy Award-nominated documentary film Restrepo, who was killed in Libya.

You can watch Diary above and also visit a slideshow of Hetherington’s photographic work here.

(via Open Culture)

oldhollywood:

James Stewart in Vertigo’s nightmare sequence (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock), which can be seen here.