Greatest Director Portrait Ever!

Thanks for posting the link to the catalog Battuta.

As I went through the catalog and examined the location and production design and what they were doing to get the angles and shots they wanted (remember this is back in the early 60's) and then came across this setup http://www.magnumphotos.com/image/PAR58197.html. Can you imagine rigging all the scaffolding etc. just to get the background extras in a deep staging shot at the right height?
 
Interesting that the photographer, Nicolas Tikhomiroff, was primarily a war photographer. But working in black and white, he was obviously a master of light and shadow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Tikhomiroff

He worked for (as the photo credits say) Magnum, a co-op agency run by photographer/members, and started by none less than Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa.

Capa shot The Falling Soldier photo, of a man allegedly just shot and falling, during the Spanish Civil War, that may or may not have been faked.

Magnum was the agency to work for before corporate pigs like Getty took over the stills world.

Capa's The Falling Soldier and Steve McCurry's Afghan Girl, another Magnum photo, and possibly the most famous National Geographic cover ever.




An interesting contrast of B&W and Color- without color, Afghan Girl's eyes would not pop the way they so incredibly do...

Sorry for the photography thread-jack (historic photos get me pumped, and I miss shooting stills).
As for Chimes at Midnight:
The film is officially available on region 2 DVD from Spain. Due to complications concerning the film's ownership and the estate of Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight remains unavailable in the United States. It was released for the first time in the UK in February 2011.
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I beg to differ old chap. Stanley kubrick's trend setting bathroom mirror self portrait is obviously the creepiest.....uh I mean greatest
 
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