Paris: Cinedis 1957. Archive of original candid single- and double-weight photographs and color transparencies for the 1957 French film "Mademoiselle et son gang" from French distributor and press and film agency Cinedis. Nearly all feature starring actress Renaud in glamour poses some reclining some ascending a staircase in a shimmering paisley dress with matching high heels. Several candid photos feature racing drivers Harry Schell and Peter Collins director Jean Boyer and other members of the film crew. <br/><br/>Included in the archive are 12 black-and-white single-weight on-the-set photos with holograph annotations in ink on the versos and 28 images of Renaud in glamour poses: 6 double-weight full-color glamour portraits Gevaert paper rubber-stamped PHOTO COULEURS / HERDET PHOTO on the versos 2 full-color transparencies 20 smaller mounted full-color transparencies. Original photo envelopes also present. <br/><br/>Renaud who later became a prominent AIDS activist stars as a writer whose crime fiction entry attracts the attention of swindlers even as she joins a gang and becomes its leader. Little known film by Boyer whose credits include "Calais-Douvres" 1931 "End of the World" 1931 "Roses noires" 1935 "Serenade" 1940 and "One Does Not Die That Way" 1946. <br/><br/>Cinedis was prominent during the French New Wave distributing and promoting some of the genre's greatest films including "Jules and Jim" "Le Trou" "The Gates of Paris" even the popular "Don Camillo" series starring Fernandel. <br/><br/>Photos range in size the smallest being 3.75 x 4.75 inches the largest being 6.75 x 9.25 inches; transparencies 4 x 4.75 inches mounted transparencies 2 x 2 inches in 9.5 x 12-inch black mounts 12 windows each 1 mount with only 8 transparencies present. Housed in a cardboard paper box from the As de Trefle company with title label for the film on the lid. <br/><br/>Curling to photos box Good only else Near Fine overall. A fantastic tribute to actress and singer Renaud's beauty and a glimpse behind the scenes. Cinedis unknown books
France: Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinematographique CICC 1963. Original Pressbook for the 1963 French film. Based on Jean Bruce's novel Kerwin Matthews stars opposite Nadia Sanders in an action film with enough clothes ripping and cat fighting to merit interest. Bruce's "117" series is popular in France with adaptations made beginning in 1957 and the most recent in 2009. <br/><br/>6 pages saddle stapled with a couple of fold outs 9.5 x 12 inches folds out to 12 x 31 inches. Near Fine. Excellent illustrations by V. Vanni Tealdi. Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinematographique [CICC] unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1967. Two vintage borderless black and white photographs from the 1967 French avant-garde performance. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Dalmas agency and a stamp noting No. 6710271. <br/><br/>From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>A pop art performance art piece staged at the Studio des Champs Elysees in Paris as part of the fifth Biennial of Young Artists show in Paris depicting the Kennedy assassination as a ritual killing and examining its place within an American cultural narrative. <br/><br/>10.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
Boston Massachusetts: Playbill 1967. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. Octavo 9 " tall 64 pages wire saddle stitch pamphlet style magazine with stiff pictorial wraps. An original theatre program in very good condition over all clean with light shelf wear slight exterior soiling and slight yellowing to the paper but the original owner's annotation positive review penned on the cover. Contains many advertisements for current shows automobiles hotels etc. Playbill unknown
Paris: Florida Films 1970. Original French moyenne medium poster for the 1970 film. <br/><br/>Little known sexploitation about a wine producer who asks a friend to essentially seduce a cover girl who is in a lesbian affair. The friend does his job so well that the lesbian counterpart seeks to revenge her relationship with the cover girl. <br/><br/>22.75 x 30.75 inches folded two times as issued. Very Good plus with brief edgewear a few central tears and creases. Uncommon. Florida Films unknown books
Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1981. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1981 film. Features Faith Monton holding up Gene Hackman with finesse. <br/><br/>A less-known Hackman film about a forlorn fellow who has an affair with a distant cousin. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with an ink notation on the verso and tiny corner creases. Universal Pictures unknown books
Munich: P.R. Wilk / Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner 1961. Original early 1960s German A1 poster for the 1946 French film illustrated by Isolde Baumgart. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>A classic 1946 French romantic fantasy film adaptation of the traditional fairy tale of the same name written by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and published in 1757 as part of a fairy tale anthology "Le Magasin des Enfants ou Dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et ses eleves" London 1757. Directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau and starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais and the Beast. <br/><br/>The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from Beast's garden. Belle offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place. The Beast then falls in love with Belle and proposes marriage on a nightly basis though she refuses. Belle eventually becomes more drawn to Beast who tests her by letting her return home to her family and telling her that if she doesn't return to him within a week he will die of grief. <br/><br/>23 x 33 inches non-archivally mounted on board. Light rubbing and soil Very Good plus overall. <br/><br/>Shipping billed at cost. Item can only be shipped within the US. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 6. P.R. Wilk / Neue Filmkunst / Walter Kirchner unknown books
Paris: Cinedis 1960. Original black-and-white photographic lobby card from the 1960 film "Testament of Orpheus" Jean Cocteau's final work in the cinema. <br/><br/>The last film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy following "The Blood of a Poet" 1930 and "Orphee" 1950. The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying as indeed he was his greatest desire being to experience rebirth so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. <br/><br/>With cameos by Pablo Picasso Charles Aznavour bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguen and Yul Brynner. A few seconds of color are spliced in at one point a surreal effect used prior to this film in "Portrait of Jennie" 1948 and later in Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor" 1963. <br/><br/>Having run out of funds in mid-production Cocteau was given the prize money won by Francois Truffaut for "Les Quatre Cents Coups" in 1959 to complete filming. Truffaut the father of the French New Wave produced the film. <br/><br/>12 x 9.5 inches double weight. Near Fine. Small French cinema photo store logo stamped on the verso. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 69. Cinedis unknown books
Paris: DisCina 1946. Vintage double weight studio photograph from the French release of the 1946 film. Credit at the bottom margin for photographer G.P. Aldo. <br/><br/>8.25 x 10.5 inches. Archivally mounted in a museum quality frame with UV plexiglass. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 6. DisCina unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of actress Edith Scob from the 1960 French film.<br/><br/>A young man returns to his uncle's home a castle he has not visited for many years where he attempts to recover experiences and emotions of his childhood. An influential entry which for many years was considered lost in the French New Wave genre.<br/><br/>11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and a small diagonal crease to the bottom right corner. N.p. unknown books
Los Angeles CA: Los Angeles County Museum Art 1953. Vol. 5 No. 3 Summer 1953 . Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo or 8� Medium Octavo: 7�" x 9�" tall. 34 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear crisp pages and clean text. Top of spine torn. Light foxing on page edges. <br/> <br/> Los Angeles County Museum Art unknown
California: National Screen Service / Gamalex Associates 1972. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1972 US release of the 1970 French-Italian-German film. Title layovers affixed to the rectos over the original titles. <br/><br/>Based on a novel by French writer Francis Ryck aka Yves Delville about a woman who kills her husband under the suspicion of infidelity when in reality the man was a secret agent. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light creases to the extremities else Near Fine. National Screen Service / Gamalex Associates unknown books
France: Cinedis 1959. Two original reference contact sheets from the 1959 French-Italian film. Each photo is hole-punched and presumably from a keybook totaling 24 images of starring actor Gabin smoking a pipe in an overcoat. Film title and Gabin's name in holograph ink on the verso. <br/><br/>Late French noir based on Simenon's novel "L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre" 1932. Maigret Gabin is called to the countryside to investigate the mysterious death of a countess. <br/><br/>Shot on location at the Castle Saint Fiacre Gaillon-sur-Montcient and Vernon France. <br/><br/>7.25 x 10 inches black-and-white single weight. Light curling else Near Fine.<br/><br/>Grant France. Cinedis unknown books
Paris: Cinedis 1961. Archive of 14 original single weight black-and-white photographs and various ephemera from the 1961 film here under the original French title. The photographs numbered on the versos in holograph pencil detail costumes for starring actors Marina Vlady and Jean Marais an exhibit of film stills and costume designs at a bookshop called "Lavocat" costumes displayed at tge shop "Delvaux" and the ephemera consists of a press packet detailing film credits and biographies an invitation for two to the premiere on March 26 at the Marivaux cinema a small slip with annotations in holograph ink and a carbon typescript from Maryse Martres to "Madame Armon" at Delvaux regarding the costumes. Housed in a large manila folder. <br/><br/>Based de La Fayette's 1678 anonymously published novel France's first historical novel widely regarded as an early psychological novel. The Princess marries a much older prince Marais but yearns for a handsome duke Poron. Her fidelity eventually coming into question. Marais also starred in Delannoy's and Cocteau's other collaboration "Love Eternal" 1943. Delannoy directed over 50 films at first well-regarded dissipating at the end of his career with several B-grade films. Costuming for the film was produced by Pierre Cardin and Marcel Escoffier both also worked together on "Beauty and the Beast" 1946 and "Fernandel the Dressmaker" 1956. <br/><br/>Martres Martin was a prolific French actress since 1948 notably "Girl on the Third Floor" 1955 and "The Happy Road" 1957 and she was later involved in press relations at Cinedis a notable film agency in operation since the Silent Film era. Kishi was born in 1932 and became a Japanese actress and writer. She married director Ciampi in 1957. Since 1996 she has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA. The Delvaux shop has been producing leather goods mostly handbags since the 19th century with central locations in Belgium. <br/><br/>Photos range from 6.75 x 9 inches to 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Ephemera ranges from 3.5 x 4.75 inches to 8 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with scattered creases and toning. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available upon request. Cinedis unknown books
Paris: Cinedis 1961. Three original color transparencies from the 1961 film. Starring actors including Marais and Vlady are seen in lavish period costumes designed for the film by Marie-Claude Fouquet and Jacqueline Guyot. Housed in a light blue mailing envelope with annotations on the recto in holograph ink noting contact information for Fouquet and Guyot. <br/><br/>Based de La Fayette's 1678 anonymously published novel France's first historical novel widely regarded as an early psychological novel. The Princess Vlady marries a much older prince Marais but yearns for a handsome duke Poron. Her fidelity eventually coming into question. Marais also starred in Delannoy's and Cocteau's other collaboration "Love Eternal" 1943. <br/><br/>Two transparencies 3.25 x 4.5 inches one slightly larger. Near Fine overall in original transparent sleeves. Cinedis unknown books
N.p.: Paris Film Productions 1956. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1956 film.<br/><br/>Three photos shown please inquire to see others.<br/><br/>The seventh film adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Jean Delannoy's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was the first made in color and one of the few adaptations to retain Victor Hugo's original ending with the skeletons of Quasimodo and Esmeralda entwined found in the charnel house years later.<br/><br/>Shot on location at the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good some light creasing one photo with a splash at the bottom left corner two with a small closed tear one with a small chip on lower right. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paris Film Productions unknown books
France: Cinedis 1960. Archive of 207 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and contact sheets from the 1960 French film. Numerical annotations on the verso of nearly all photos in holograph pencil several cropped contact sheets mounted on larger sheets. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box with most contact sheets in a two-ring binder similar to keybook photos. Also included is a press folder from the Cinedis agency in Paris with star biographies film credits and scenario on Cinedis parchment. <br/><br/>Seen in the images is starring actor and screenwriter Buissieres including a large portrait actress Carrel several seductive in nature with shots of director Faurez and the film crew in action and images of composer Georges Van Parys and singer Colette Renard famous for her "Irma La Douce" musical roles presumably working on the film soundtrack. Several images in the contact sheets show scenes from the film taking place in an automobile repair shop directed scenes from high on a crane and candid photos of the starring performers. A few of the contact sheets bear credits for the Laboratoire Tele-Photo film title client Cinedis and photographer. ` <br/><br/>Little known gangster drama about a woman and her child caught in the downward spiral of prostitution. <br/><br/>Photos vary in size from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.25 x 11.75 inches with most being smaller. Very Good plus overall photos with moderate curling and photo box Very Good plus. Cinedis unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 French film showing actress Brigitte Fossey in silhouette.<br/><br/>A man recently released from the hospital falls in love with a woman who is identical in appearance to his wife.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Morbihan France. <br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
Paris: Cite-Films Jacques Bar 1961. Draft script for the 1961 French film. Text in French. <br/><br/>Based on the 1958 novel by Georges Simenon.<br/><br/>Jean Gabin in what is essentially two brilliant performances as the middle-aged French prime minister Emile Beaufort refusing to compromise his principles against the corrupt and opportunistic Philippe Chalamont impressively portrayed by Bernard Blier and twenty years later as the now aging ex-prime minister in ill-health dictating his memoirs to his secretary and deciding on how now to handle Chalamont in line to become the next prime minister.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris Essonne Yvelines Seine-et-Marne and Val-de-Marne France. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for actor Jean Gabin director Henri Verneuil author Georges Simenon and screenwriters Michel Audiard and Bernard Blier. 166 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Ner Fine wrapper Very Good plus saddle-stitched with three staples. Cite-Films (Jacques Bar) unknown books
New York: Chelsea Theater Center 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play which opened on November 30 1971 and ran through December 25 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn NY. <br/><br/>Genet began writing the play about life in a poor village in French controlled Algeria in 1955 and a version was published by L'Arbalete in 1961. Abridged versions of the play were performed in Germany in 1961 Vienna in 1963 and London in 1964. The first performance of the complete text which contained 16 acts and lasted over 5 hours took place in Stockholm in 1964 followed by the French premiere two years later. The Chelsea Theatre Center production employed 45 actors on a multi-level set with elaborate costumes and cost a reported $109500 a huge sum for a non-Broadway production which precluded the play from moving Off-Broadway despite overwhelmingly positive reviews and audience response. <br/><br/>Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with a credit for playwright Genet. Title page present undated with credits for playwright Genet and for the Chelsea Theater Center. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered "16-14." Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Jamison RJ. Grayson Hall: A Hard Act to Follow. iUniverse 2006 pp. 156-157. Chelsea Theater Center unknown books
New York New York: New York Theatre Program Corp 1937. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. Octavo 9 1/4" tall 52 pages wire saddle stitch pamphlet style magazine with stiff pictorial wraps. An original theatre program in very good condition with light edge wear one corner bumped but discoloration to a 1" strip of the exterior cover fore-edge margin due to moisture interior clean and fine slight yellowing to paper. Play opened Novemeber 1 1937. Contains many advertisements for current shows automobiles hotels etc. New York Theatre Program Corp unknown
N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1965 film showing producer Joseph Levine and costume designer Edith Head examining actress Carroll Baker's gown side-by-side with Head's original design. <br/><br/>The rise to fame and troubled life of starlet Jean Harlow before her death from kidney failure at 26. Not to be confused with the 1965 film of the same name directed by Alex Segal and starring Carol Lynley.<br/><br/>Set in Hollywood. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Olive Films 247. N.p. unknown books
Edition: Reprint . Good Condition. No Hassle 30 Day Returns Ships Daily Underlining/Highlighting: NONE Writing: NONE 1 CD/Disks Included Publisher: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Pub Date: 11/3/2004 Binding: DVD Pages: 1 unknown
Bookseller reference : 6165877 ISBN : 0767837126 9780767837125
Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains. Collectible - Acceptable. Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains 1980. 8vo. Unpaginated. French. B/W plates. Ex-Library Copy. Light edgewear. Page edges and pages age toned. Usual library labels bookplate and markings. Inquire if you need further information. Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains unknown
N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film showing actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jeanne Moreau between takes. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of PRPresse. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.<br/><br/>Loosely based on the adventures of Dutch dancer-turned-spy Mata Hari who worked as a secret agent for the Germans during World War I. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>8 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
N.p.: Primex Films 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard in Morocco from the 1964 film. French mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world. Godard's segment stars Jean Seberg as a journalist accused of passing fake currency who then tracks down and interviews the counterfeiter in the segment "Le Grand escroc" "The Great Swindler". Other segments were directed by Claude Chabrol Ugo Gregoretti Hiromichi Horikawa and Roman Polanski whose segment had been removed at his request. <br/><br/>7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Olive Films 1339. Primex Films unknown books
Paris: Gaumont 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres twisting together a broad range of references to literature film comedy and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker thus blurring the fictional category from the outset. Made the same year as Godard's production of "King Lear."<br/><br/>12 x 9 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Olive Films 327. Gaumont unknown books
Paris: Les Films Concordia 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1963 film. With the stamp of photographer Aldo Durazzi and a press agency stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object while simultaneously furthering his own reputation for being the most commercially successful deconstructionist in film history. A fascinating film that can be watched either as narrative about a disintegrating relationship or as an unending series of pure cinematic references. <br/><br/>12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 171. Les Films Concordia unknown books
N.p.: Embassy Pictures 1964. Two intage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 film showing actors Brigitte Bardot Giorgia Moll and Jack Palance. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout. <br/><br/>Based on the 1954 Italian novel "Il disprezzo" "A Ghost at Noon" by Alberto Moravia. Director Jean-Luc Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object while simultaneously furthering his own reputation for being the most commercially successful deconstructionist in film history. A fascinating film that can be watched either as a narrative about a disintegrating relationship or as an unending series of pure cinematic references. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 171. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Embassy Pictures unknown books
Paris: Anne-age-Bela 1975. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1975 French film. <br/><br/>Godard's experimental film examines the intricate social relations of a young French family while simultaneously analyzing and commenting on the act of film making. The film is unique for presenting two images on the screen simultaneously. <br/><br/>24 x 32 inches folded. Two holograph pencil annotations to the verso else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Anne-age-Bela unknown books
Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. <br/><br/>One of three feature films Godard released in 1967 and like both "Week End" and "La chinoise" one that showcases Godard's increasing focus on deconstructing filmic narrative and structure and vocalization of leftist political ideas. <br/><br/>Godard has stated that his overall desire with the film was "to include everything: sports politics even groceries" to make "an attempt at description of a phenomenon known. as a complex."<br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Fine condition. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 482. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica unknown books
Paris: N.p. 1961. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Godard and Macha Meril on the set of the 1961 film. With the Paris stamp of photographer Claude Schwartz on the verso. <br/><br/>9 x 6 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 238. N.p. unknown books
Paris: Athos Films 1965. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1965 film. <br/><br/>The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated and even the film's legitimate proteges such as "Blade Runner" don't quite capture its strange sexuality. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>23 x 30 inches folded. Light holograph pencil notation to the verso else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Athos Films unknown books
Paris: Parc Film 1968. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 film. French "La Chinoise" stamps on versos.<br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1871 novel "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.<br/><br/>Godard's wry improvisational take on politics of the late 1960s follows five disaffected students studying the teachings of Mao Zedong and debating the use of terrorism to achieve revolution. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>6.75 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Parc Film unknown books
N.p.: Sara Films 1983. Vintage reference photograph from the 1983 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso.<br/><br/>Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Sara Films unknown books
Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard behind the camera on the set of the 1965 film. Shot by photographer Georges Dudognon in the summer of 1965 with his stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 9 x 12 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires de cinema. Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC] unknown books
France: Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 French film. With the stamp of still photographer Georges Pierre on the verso.<br/><br/>Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction following a secret agent in a dystopian future who is assigned to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Rosenbaum 1000. Grant US. Godard Histoires du cinema. Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio unknown books
N.p.: Andre Michelin Productions 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution in bed armed and reading a French translation of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" from the 1965 film. Printed snipe and provenance stamp of "G. Toussier" on verso. <br/><br/>Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction transplanting the fictional detective Lemmy Caution Constantine into a dystopian future assigned to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state where emotion is outlawed.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very light edgewear to the corners else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Andre Michelin Productions unknown books
Paris: Anouchka Films 1966. Vintage one sheet poster from the US release of the 1966 film. With the film title rubber stamped on the verso as called for: "MASCULINE FEMININE / 66/368."<br/><br/>"Masculine Feminine" was Jean-Luc Godard's first examination of 60s youth and culture whom he described as "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola." Teenager Paul Jean-Pierre Leaud works as an interviewer for a research firm while living with aspiring singer Madeleine Chantal Goya and with two additional young ladies joining the nocturnal festivities. Brigitte Bardot and French pop icon Francoise Hardy appear in cameos. <br/><br/>Set in Paris and shot there on location. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 308. Anouchka Films unknown books
London: Institute of Contemporary Arts 1969. Two vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1969 French film. With printed mimeo snipes for the film's British release affixed to the verso.<br/><br/>A man and a woman meet to discuss the Vietnam War student protests the changing relationship between the US and France and other current events of the 1960s interspersed with news clips music and narration by director Jean-Luc Godard. <br/><br/>8.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Institute of Contemporary Arts unknown books
France: Ulysse Productions 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of a playful Jean Seberg pointing her prop camera back at the real one on the set of the 1964 film. With the stamp of production company Ulysse Productions and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused of passing fake currency who then tracks down and interviews the counterfeiter in the segment "Le grand escroc" "The Great Swindler" directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Other segments were directed by Claude Chabrol Ugo Gregoretti Hiromichi Horikawa and Roman Polanski. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Olive Films 1339. Ulysse Productions unknown books
Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC. <br/><br/>Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White about a unhappily married man who goes on a traveling crime spree with an ex-girlfriend who herself is being pursued by right wing paramilitary hit men. <br/><br/>9.5 x 12 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires de cinema. Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC] unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Jean-Paul Belmondo from the set of the 1965 film. "14 Mai 1965" stamp and annotation in holograph marker of "credit Y-Debraine" on verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White about an unhappily married man who goes on a traveling crime spree with an ex-girlfriend who herself is being pursued by right wing paramilitary hit men. <br/><br/>9 x 13.25 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and slight chipping on lower right edges.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and rubber stamps on the versos. <br/><br/>Based in part on the nonfiction study "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard's least "intellectual" film is also one of his finest a touching drama about a college-educated woman who drifts into prostitution out of boredom with the working world to tragic consequences. The third of the seven highly influential films directed by Godard between 1960 and 1965 starring his then-wife and muse Anna Karina. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>BFI 2055. Criterion Collection 512. Ebert I. Les Films de la Pleiade unknown books
Paris: Parc Film 1967. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 French film. All but one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso.<br/><br/>A day in the life of suburban housewife Juliette Jeanson Vlady who intersperses her daily routine of housework cleaning and shopping with appointments as a call girl. One of director Jean-Luc Godard's most highly regarded stylistically innovative films released the same year as "Weekend" and "La chinoise." <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris.<br/><br/>Four photographs 7 x 5 inches one 8 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Parc Film unknown books
France Italy: Euro International Film / Rome Paris Films 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the soundtrack recording sessions for the 1961 film showing director Jean-Luc Godard composer Michel Legrand a visiting Serge Gainsbourg and some other guy in the studio drinking smoking and surrounded by women which is pretty much how we always imagine them. With the stamp Radio Luxembourg on the verso. <br/><br/>Godard's homage to romantic comedies and the Hollywood musical about a woman who wants to have child but is caught between her resistant boyfriend and his overeager best friend. Perhaps his warmest and funniest film. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 238. Euro International Film / Rome Paris Films unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1967 film with actors Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Leaud and Mireille Darc. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso with celo tape from the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema for a July 5 1968 showing with annotations of actors names in holograph ink. <br/><br/>In one of Godard's most misanthropic films a loveless bourgeois couple Corinne Darc and Roland Yanne fantasize about killing each other when they aren't cheating on the other. They ponder these matters as they take a nearly never-ending nightmarish road trip to visit Corinne's parents intent on securing an inheritance resolved to murder if necessary.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Light curling else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Claude Brialy and Anna Karina from the 1961 film. "Michel Casanova" stamp and "R. Levy" stamp on verso.<br/><br/>Godard's homage to romantic comedies and the Hollywood musical about a woman who wants to have child but is caught between her resistant boyfriend and his overeager best friend. Perhaps the director's warmest and funniest film. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>9.25 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 238. N.p. unknown books
N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless photographs from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With mimeo snipe on one and holograph annotations on the other. <br/><br/>From the last scene of the film featuring "Eve Democracy" a graffiti artist played by Anne Wiazemsky who is followed by a film crew on the beach as she totes a rifle dressed in all white. "One Plus One" alternates documentary segments of The Rolling Stones creating the song "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio during the band's last days with Brian Jones with surreal commentary about anarchy and revolution making references to Amiri Baraka Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panthers pornography "Mein Kampf" and the Nazi movement. <br/><br/>10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
N.p.: International Spectrafilm Distribution 1984. Vintage reference photograph of Jean-Luc Godard and Valerie Dreville from the 1984 US release of the 1983 French film.<br/><br/>Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>10.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Godard Histoires du Cinema. International Spectrafilm Distribution unknown books
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