Cinema

  Of all the photographic coverage of Hollywood stars of the 1930s and 40s, perhaps the most representative as well as the best remembered comes under the heading of “glamour” photography. Hollywood glamour photography was exclusively about creating illusion in those days. Shot in still galleries, it paid strict attention …

  The official selection is made up of two main sections, the Contest and Un Certain Regard. To these we must add the non-competing films presented during special screenings, the contest for short films and the selection of the Cinéfondation school films.   The contest is the part greatest media …

  In short, everything the studio’s unit photographer, who was busy recording each scene in “stills”, could not shoot. It was an all-encompassing  view of motion picture making up close with all its attendant backstage excitement , its energy and tension, its sober dedication and silly camaraderie. Special photographer captured …

  The 1968 festival was scheduled to run from the 10th to the 24th of May. The president of the jury, Monica Vitti, resigned following disputes, and her resignation was followed by that of other jurors. On the 18th, Louis Malle, a resigning member of the jury, François Truffaut, Claude …

  The job of the “special” was to produce picture stories or features on a film during the production: major essays on the stars for cover stories (Cooper back to nature  in South Seas waters, Fred Astaire creating a dance number, Marylin Monroe’s relationship whit her backstage guru Paula Strasberg) …