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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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Stills from Vertigo’s (1958) title sequences, the first of three title sequences Saul Bass designed for director Alfred Hitchcock.

“Bass fashioned title sequences into an art, creating in some cases, like Vertigo, a mini-film within a film. His graphic compositions in movement function as a prologue to the movie – setting the tone, providing the mood and foreshadowing the action.” -Martin Scorsese

The title sequences can be seen here.

(stills via: artofthetitle)

Stanley Kubrick filming A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Alex performing “Singin’ in the Rain” as he attacks the writer and his wife was not scripted. Stanley Kubrick spent four days experimenting with this scene, finding it too conventional. Eventually he approached Malcolm McDowell and asked him if he could dance. They tried the scene again, this time with McDowell dancing and singing the only song he could remember. Kubrick was so amused that he swiftly bought the rights to “Singing in the Rain” for $10,000.

The scene where Alex performing “Singin’ in the Rain” can be seen here.

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)

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

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Pascal Lamorisse in fantasy short film The Red Balloon (1956, dir. Albert Lamorisse) Full film online here.

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Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain (1952, dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)

“[With Singin’ in the Rain], I wanted to bring audiences back to their childhoods, when they would cavort in the rain even though their mothers would give them hell. [I also wanted] to make them feel like they were in love. A fellow in love does silly things.”

-Gene Kelly

(Dance sequence pictured above can be seen on youtube here)