If you place any value on my friendship you will discontinue this bewildering display of rudeness. I am not used to being treated as a pest. I am used to having my phone calls promptly returned – not being brushed off to assistants. You are the only one who has ever done this to me (…).

The lack of what might even be considered routine planning has resulted in no proper screening facilities being available for the Academy. It has also resulted in an amateurishly mis-booking at the Crest theater which can contribute little to the nominations, opening the day before the ballots are sent. I know you are very busy, but so am I. I am working around the clock with a writer who has a tax deadline by which he must leave the country. (…)

The whole thing has virtually stopped all work on my script and between the realities of the problem and the maddening attempts to reach you the effect has been disastrous to my time.

Excerpt of a letter Stanley Kubrick sent to an un-named advertising executive on December 17 1964 regarding the film Dr. Strangelove.

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Une Femme est Une Femme (1961, dir. Jean-Luc Godard).

Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Le Mépris (1963).

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Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Psycho (1960).

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick).

Marilyn Monroe impersonating Clara Bow by Richard Avedon, early 60s.

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Brigitte Bardot on the set of Le Mépris (1963, dir. Jean-Luc Godard).

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Tippie Hedren in The Birds (1963, dir. Alfred HItchcock).

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Jean Seberg in A Bout de Souffle (1960, dir. Jean-Luc Godard).

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Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

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Alfred HItchcock during the filming of Torn Curtain (1966).

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Jean-Paul Belmondo in Pierrot Le Fou (1965, dir. Jean-Luc Godard).

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Publicity photo of Tippi Hedren for The Birds (1963, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) by Philippe Halsman.

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Unretouched photos of Audrey Hepburn, 1960s.

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