John Huston @ 100.

John Huston would have been 100 today, and Slate celebrates with a series of photos: "His dramatic style and classic edge in films like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Moulin Rouge earned him respect from audiences worldwide. His friends Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Inge Morath, and other Magnum photographers captured intimate moments of his life." Richard Gibson also posts one of those terrific shots (Huston confers with Arthur Miller during the making of The Misfits) at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger....

Via filmz.de, a few appreciations in the German papers: Peter W Jansen in Der Tagesspiegel, Daniel Kothenschulte in the Frankfurter Rundschau, Bert Rebhandl and Verena Lueken in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Gerhard Midding in Die Welt.

The New York Times has Peter B Flint's 1987 obit.

More linkage at Classic Movies.

Updates: That Little Round-Headed Boy's "100 Reasons to Remember John Huston."

Michael Guillen's got nifty background on the friendship between Huston and Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias, including the story of how Covarrubias, along with Diego Rivera, made it possible for Huston to carry on shooting The Treasure of Sierra Madre in Mexico.

Update, 8/7: Pat Dowell on NPR.

Posted by dwhudson at August 5, 2006 8:26 AM