1990Best.-Nr. 168777N.p.: N.p. 1990. Small archive of production documents for the 1990 film including six gatherings of Call Sheets two to ten pages each dating from "24th April 1990" to "6th May 1990" a sixteen page "Movement Order No. 4" for "Friday 27th and Saturday 28th April 1990" and a twenty-five page "Provisional Unit List" dated "29.6.90." The call sheets and "Movement Order" found here were made during location shooting in Dover and Aberdeen/Stonehaven and include the daily schedule for cast and crew as well as locations and maps to the day's shooting location. Earliest Call Sheet dating "24th April 1990" with a single manuscript ink annotation of copy number "308" in the top margin. Director Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy starring Mel Gibson in the title role. Also starring Glenn Close Alan Bates Ian Holm and Helena Bonham Carter. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in England Scotland France and Italy. 8.25 x 11.75 inches 78 total pages in eight gatherings each corner stitched with a single staple to the top left. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 149552N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1971 film showing director Woody Allen behind a pile of bananas. With the stamp of London Press Photos Ltd. on the verso along with manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. Anxious to impress his activist ex-girlfriend a blue collar worker travels to a fictitious South American country where he is unwittingly conscripted into a group of violent revolutionaries. Shot on location in New York and Puerto Rico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few tiny nicks and a small faint splash to the bottom edge. N.p. unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 156222Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Woody Allen from the 1972 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Allen's 1969 play. The predecessor of many films Allen would write and direct throughout the 1970s in terms of shooting style timing romantic themes and the actors involved. Allen had already directed two films at this point "Take the Money and Run" in 1969 and "Bananas" in 1971 but this film is significant in that it predicted the more substantive romantic comedies that would later place him among the most important filmmakers of his time. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Grant US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1947Best.-Nr. 138070Beverly Hills CA: Victor Glaser 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock a draft of the novel produced for purposes of film development with brief annotations throughout in manuscript ink. Copy belonging to Victor Glaser with his name and address on the front wrapper in manuscript ink and the person to whom the internal annotations presumably belong. Based on the 1939 novel by Henri La Barthe writing as Ashelbe. Dedee Signoretworks in a bar and lives Marco Dalio the bouncer and her pimp. When she meets Francesco Pagliero she sees a way to a better life but must avoid the menacing embrace of Marco. Set in Antwerp. Censored upon release in both Finland and France. Blue wrappers with a credit for Ashelbe on the front wrapper. 145 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 143. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. Victor Glaser unknown
1961Best.-Nr. 143969Paris: Cinedis 1961. Collection of 18 original single weight press photographs from a gala surrounding the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. Most of the photos represent actress Kishi here as "Kiski" in kimono and director Ciampi on-stage behind a microphone and signing autographs presumably at the French premiere. Several photographs are rubber-stamped on the versos crediting photographer Jungmann or Andre also for Bar-le-Duc. Also included are a few leaves documenting travel expenses and locations associated with the film and a memo mentioning Kishi's travels signed by "F. Willkomm" at Cinedis the film's distribution company addressed to Maryse Martres dated May 29 1961. All photos and memo housed in original mailing envelopes with annotations in manuscript ink on the recto of the larger. Little is known of Willkomm but 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. Based on the true story of Richard Sorge who was a spy for the USSR working at the German Embassy in Japan between 1935 and 1943. Holtzman plays Sorge and Kishi plays Yuki presumably involved with Sorge romantically and within the workings of his spy ring. Sorge's story was adapted once more "Spy Sorge 2003 a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Photos range from 3.5 x 6 inches to 7 x 9 inches several with white borders. Very Good plus overall slight curling and light creasing. Envelopes memo and travel ephemera Very Good overall. Cinedis unknown
1942Best.-Nr. 149132Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda which brilliantly utilized live exotic animals on huge lush sets and featured Indian born actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Set in a village in India shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown
Best.-Nr. 020434Claude Autant-Lara (1901-2000), réalisateur, acteur, scénariste, homme politique. L.A.S. + enveloppe, 15 septembre 1977, 2p in-8. Belle lettre à madame Canestrier, notamment autour de son film Gloria, le dernier qu'il réalisera : « Vous verrez [Gloria] : c'est, du moins je le crois, un joli film, tendre, sensible (à l'excès même mais sans mièvrerie) qui ne met en scène. ni voyous, ni truands, ni flics, ni drogués, ni homosexuels, ni violences, ni hold-up, ni brutalités, ni intellectualisme hermétique incompréhensible, ni contestation sociale agressive. etc. enfin aussi totalement à contre-courant de tout ce qui s'étale si affreusement et si complaisamment sur tous les écrans actuels et que les directeurs de salles accueillent hélas avec tant d'empressement.! Un film normal pour des gens normaux ». Il est étonné qu'on lui ait permis de faire un tel film. Très belle lettre, préfigurant son engagement politique. [492]
Best.-Nr. 020435Claude Autant-Lara (1901-2000), réalisateur, acteur, scénariste, homme politique. L.A.S., 12 janvier 1981, 2p in-8. Belle lettre amicale à madame Canestrier, dans laquelle il regrette notamment que le dernier film qu'il a réalisé, Gloria, n'ait eut aucun succès. « c'est - je crois - un joli film, sensible et, surtout bien fait, avec ce qui est rare, des moyens (de l'argent) pour les reconstitutions, ce qui coûte très cher. Mais, hélas, ce film ne correspond plus à l'époque. Il n'a eu aucun succès - sauf d'estime. ce qui ne suffit pas : mon producteur, richissime. un vrai Crésus, m'a, aussitôt après, laisser tomber. Il en pardonne pas l'insuccès - et l'estime, ils s'en foutent bien. Marcel Dassault, car c'était lui, engage d'autres réalisateurs. et cette merveilleuse "CHARTREUSE DE PARME", qu'il m'avait, pourtant, juré - par écrit - de me financer. ce qui était, pour lui, facile. il m'a lâchement abandonné. Grossièrement même, car il m'a écrit que Gloria était un film "admirable", mais qu'il ne ferait "pas un sou". donc : adieu ! Plus mufle on ne l'est pas ». Il oeuvre aussi à l'écriture d'un livre. Peut-être son autobiographie, La Rage dans le coeur, parue en 1984. Et il se rappelle de sa monteuse, Madeleine Gug morte en 1971 (et enterré avec la famille Autant-Lara). On joint une enveloppe d'un autre courrier. Belle lettre dans laquelle on sent toute la tristesse et l'amertume d'Autant-Lara qui sait qu'il ne pourra pas faire sa Chartreuse de Parme. [492]
Best.-Nr. 020898Louis Delluc (1890-1924), écrivain, scénariste, photographe, réalisateur. L.A.S., Paris, 1er décembre 1916, 2p in-4. A Laurent Tailhade (1854-1919), poète, écrivain, pamphlétaire. « Monsieur, Je n'ai pas eu votre adresse et je crains que l'exemplaire de "Monsieur de Berlin", à vous réservé, ne vous soit pas encore parvenu. Réclamez-le à l'oeuvre, s'il vous plait. Je ne crois pas en effet que ce livre rencontre votre hostilité. C'est un effort, non pas d'imagination, mais de littérature et de sincérité d'expression. Enfin, je suis incapable de résumer mon intention. Je suis déjà furieux de ces mots prétentieux. Vous les excuserez, et aussi mon ambition de trouver en vous un appui. Votre aide d'artiste et de juge sera pour moi le plus beau conseil du monde, et je vous en remercie déjà. Croyez, je vous prie, monsieur, à ma profonde sincérité. Louis Delluc. Demay m'avait fortement conseillé d'aller à vous et de vous interroger sur mes essais. Mais j'ai préféré attendre le moment [passage difficile à lire] pour savoir de vous si je vais me noyer ». Rare lettre de ce personnage mort jeune. [505]
1964Best.-Nr. 171049Universal City: Universal Studios 1964. Vintage color transparency from the 1971 film showing Ann-Margret and Jack Nicholson. A pitch-black comedy chronicling the sex lives of two college friends over a period of 25 years as they navigate their changing desires and expectations. Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts in the US and Vancouver in Canada. 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 170969Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1949. Nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1949 film. Two photographs with provenance stickers on the versos and three photographs with an erratum paste-up to the title in the bottom margin of the recto. A dark and morally conflicted film by Siodmak here at the top of his considerable directorial skills and a powerful performance by Stanwyck who invests her character Thelma with more ambiguity and sympathy than is found in the stereotypical femme fatale. Shot on location in Culver City California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films. Selby Canon. Selby Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 171049Universal City: Universal Studios 1964. Vintage color transparency from the 1971 film showing Ann-Margret and Jack Nicholson. A pitch-black comedy chronicling the sex lives of two college friends over a period of 25 years as they navigate their changing desires and expectations. Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts in the US and Vancouver in Canada. 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown
1949Best.-Nr. 170969Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1949. Nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1949 film. Two photographs with provenance stickers on the versos and three photographs with an erratum paste-up to the title in the bottom margin of the recto. A dark and morally conflicted film by Siodmak here at the top of his considerable directorial skills and a powerful performance by Stanwyck who invests her character Thelma with more ambiguity and sympathy than is found in the stereotypical femme fatale. Shot on location in Culver City California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films. Selby Canon. Selby Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
Best.-Nr. 12260L’homme à l’étoile d’argent Une aventure du Lieutenant BLUEBERRY. In 4 cartonné couverture illustrée en couleurs, gardes illustrées, titre illustré en couleurs, 48 pages de dessins en couleurs de J. GIRAUD. Titre en long, en noir au dos. DARGAUD S.A éditeur, quatrième trimestre 1969.n°000, Editeur n°418, 27 titres au dernier plat.. Edition originale. Très bon état.
Best.-Nr. 20922No date or place. London 1940s. In the 1940s Guest wrote the lyrics to several songs by the American composer Manning Sherwin 1902-1974 several of them for his comedy 'I'll be your Sweetheart' 1945 but he is not known to have written any music himself. No record has been found of the present item but it presumably dates from the same period. It is 4pp. 4to. On bifolium of printed music paper. In good condition lightly aged and worn with central vertical fold. The title is on the cover: '”Swell” Lyrics and music by Val Guest'. There is an illegible name lightly written at top right in another hand. The music is neatly written out in ink. The lyrics are not present except for one phrase in pencil 'You sent me a note and beneath it you wrote it's been swell'. No date or place. [London, 1940s?] unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 164325N.p.: Miracle Films 1969. Two vintage photographs from the UK release of the 1969 Italian-French anthology film both showing scenes from Bernardo Bertolucci's segment "Agonia." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Largely dealing with themes of religion and spirituality the film featured segments written and directed by five Italian directors and one French director. Bertolucci's segment starred members of The Living Theatre including noted actor and director Julian Beck. Distributed by the notoriously versatile Miracle Films a significant force in both international cinema and American pornography in the late 1960s and 1970s. 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus one Very Good both slightly curled. Miracle Films unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 157079N.p.: N.p. 1985. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1985 French film showing director Agnes Varda and actress Sandrine Bonnaire. One with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Varda's most successful and critically acclaimed film beginning with the discovery of a young migrant woman's body frozen in a ditch in northern France and retracing her life up until the time of her death. As an important and influential French director writer and artist Agnes Varda garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. Shot on location in Gard Hérault and Bouches-du-Rhône France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 74. N.p. unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 150389N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Alain Robbe-Grillet on the set of the 1963 film. French "L'Immortelle" and "57- -3" stamp on verso. Directorial debut of novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet his first film project after writing the screenplay for Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad" 1961. Robbe-Grillet's eliptical narrative-defying tale of a withdrawn French man Jacques Doniol-Valcroze in a strange city Istanbul unable to speak the language falling in love with a mysterious woman Francoise Brion who shortly thereafter disappears. Set in and shot on location in Istanbul Turkey. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1188. N.p. unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 153193N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Alain Robbe-Grillet with cinematographer Willy Kurant and a cameraman on the set of the 1966 French film. An inexperienced drug runner on a cross-continental train becomes the central figure in the imaginations of a group of filmmakers who are engaged in the process of drafting their next feature. Set in Paris and Antwerp. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. BFI 2033. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 160544N.p.: N.p. 1966. Four vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1966 French film. All four with annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. An inexperienced drug runner on a cross-continental train becomes the central figure in the imaginations of a group of filmmakers who are engaged in the process of drafting their next feature. Set in Paris and Antwerp. 9 x 8 inches. Near Fine. BFI 2033. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 155648N.p.: N.p. 1991. Vintage reference photograph of director Alan Parker standing with the members of the band on the set of the beloved 1991 film. Based on the 1987 novel about a young man from Dublin who assembles a soul band composed of a group of working-class music fans. Set and shot on location in Dublin. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 150336N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage oversize reference photograph of director Alan Rudolph and Genevieve Bujold on the set of the 1985 film. Ex-cop Hawk Kris Krisofferson released from jail after serving eight years for murder is in need of "a woman and a job" and returns to his former hangout Wanda's Cafe run by his ex Wanda Bujold. Wanda's new waitress Georgia Lori Singer whose errant husband Coop Keith Carradine has gotten embroiled in shady dealings catches Hawk's eye in Alan Rudolph's stylish unusual Neo-Noir. Set in the fictional Rain City shot on location in Seattle. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. N.p. unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 154237N.p.: N.p. 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1944 film showing actress Tallulah Bankhead sitting and reading a newspaper that makes reference to World War II. A group of survivors are stranded on a lifeboat following a Nazi attack on their merchant ship. Tensions are high as the group negotiates food rations and tries to plot a course to land or rescue. The first film in Alfred Hitchcock's "limited setting" series followed by "Rope" 1948 "Dial M for Murder" 1954 and "Rear Window" 1954. Shot on location in Florida and California. 5 x 4.25 inches. Near Fine. Eureka Masters of Cinema 30. N.p. unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 151248Burbank CA: Warner-Pathe 1951. Vintage photograph showing two shots from the 1951 film struck onto the single print. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a Warner-Pathe stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel. A Hitchcock classic wherein two passengers on a train form a partnership to permanently rid themselves of incessant problems. The plan seems infallible until one person shirks his end of the responsibilities. Shot on location in New York Los Angeles District of Columbia and Connecticut. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned overall. Grant US. Hardy BFI Crime Companion. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 153863London: VPS 1972. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film showing actors Natalya Bondarchuk and Donatas Banionis. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso specific to the film's UK release. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1961 novel by Stanislaw Lem about a psychologist who is sent to a distant space station in order to observe and treat the station's crew who have fallen into unexplained mental and emotional disorder. An open-ended and conceptually faithful adaptation of Lem's novel concerning itself with the inability of the human species to communicate with other intelligent life forms based simply on the fact that a more advanced life form would exist outside the sphere of human experience and understanding. Set in outer space and shot on location in Ukraine Japan and Russia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 164. VPS unknown books
