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réf. 158230Beverly Hills CA: Leading Artists Inc 1988. Second Draft script for the 1989 film. Director and screenwriter Steven Soderbergh's directorial debut and a landmark of independent cinema. A languid provocative chamber piece exploring intimacy and desire revolving around a husband John his wife Ann Ann's sister Cynthia and John's old drifter friend Graham who use Graham's own peculiar fetish videotape to mediate their feelings. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or making Soderbergh the youngest director to receive the prize. Set and shot on location in Baton Rouge Louisiana. White untitled Outlaw Production wrappers. Title page present dated 21 FEB 88 noted as second draft with credits for screenwriter Steven Soderberg. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 938. Leading Artists Inc unknown books
réf. 133217New York: Warner Brothers 1996. First edition of the draft script for the 1996 film boldly signed by Oliver Stone based on the 1978 musical stage production by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber which was in turn based on Rice and Webber's 1976 concept album following the brief life of Argentinean first lady Eva Peron from her impoverished illegitimate beginnings to her later idolatry. The film went through many iterations of production passing between studios and directors with Parker returning to direct in 1994 after having initially rejected the opportunity in 1979. Warner Brothers unknown
1901réf. 142546Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made including "Prison Bars" a film featuring the Wright Brothers and a Western starring sharpshooter Buffalo Bill. Touring with an electronic lamp house and a portable gasoline-powered electric power supply of his own invention he found great success with his traveling show until stationery theaters made his business model obsolete in 1917. From a nearly-forgotten era of film history his name innovations and films have largely been lost. Set in Wisconsin's Waupun Prison and shot there on location where Barnsdale had arranged to film the lives of inmates in exchange for screening entertainment for the them. An especially bright attractive copy of this piece of early film history and an uncommonly detailed artifact from the height of stone lithography poster advertisements. One of the earliest documentary motion picture ads we have ever seen in remarkable condition. Created by the US Lithograph Company Russel-Morgan Print. 42 x 28 inches rolled. Two light creases else Fine. Walter Barnsdale unknown
1901réf. 142546Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made including "Prison Bars" a film featuring the Wright Brothers and a Western starring sharpshooter Buffalo Bill. Touring with an electronic lamp house and a portable gasoline-powered electric power supply of his own invention he found great success with his traveling show until stationery theaters made his business model obsolete in 1917. From a nearly-forgotten era of film history his name innovations and films have largely been lost. Set in Wisconsin's Waupun Prison and shot there on location where Barnsdale had arranged to film the lives of inmates in exchange for screening entertainment for the them. An especially bright attractive copy of this piece of early film history and an uncommonly detailed artifact from the height of stone lithography poster advertisements. One of the earliest documentary motion picture ads we have ever seen in remarkable condition. Created by the US Lithograph Company Russel-Morgan Print. 42 x 28 inches rolled. Two light creases else Fine. Walter Barnsdale unknown books
1957réf. 163596N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with their annotations in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper and two leaves regarding lighting. Based on Theo Durant's 1951 novel "The Marble Forest." A small-town doctor must race to find his daughter after she is kidnapped and buried alive with only hours to go until she suffocates. Director William Castle known for his promotional gimmicks provided each member of the audience with an official life certificate to insure them for $1000 against death by fright. Despite the superficial hijinks a key film in the classic string of films made by the director in the 1940s and 1950s. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 28 1957 with credit for screenwriter Robb White. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
réf. 154562N.p.: N.p. 1988. Draft script for the third and final segment of the 1989 anthology film copy belonging to Woody Allen with the annotations in Allen's hand of his name and "NYSS" New York Short Stories in black manuscript marker on top left of title page. An anthology film featuring three of American cinema's foremost auteurs with each unconnected segment united by their New York setting. The first Martin Scorsese's "Life Lessons" stars Nick Nolte as a frustrated painter infatuated with his assistant and ex-lover played by Rosanna Arquette. The second Francis Ford Coppola's "Life Without Zoe" co-written with his daughter Sofia Coppola is a whimsical updated remake of Kay Thompson's "Eloise" character about a poor little rich girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel starring Heather McComb and Talia Shire. The final segment Woody Allen's "Oedipus Wrecks" is a highspot comedy for Allen among many wherein he plays Sheldon a neurotic Jewish New York lawyer with a ridiculing overbearing mother. When Sheldon his shiksa fiancee and her children take his mother to a magic show she actually disappears to Sheldon's ultimate relief but then reappears in the sky over the New York hounding and nagging Sheldon and his fiancee while the whole city watches. Set and shot on location in New York City. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with untitled leaf dated 3/1/88. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 44. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Carlson Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown
réf. 154562N.p.: N.p. 1988. Draft script for the third and final segment of the 1989 anthology film copy belonging to Woody Allen with the annotations in Allen's hand of his name and "NYSS" New York Short Stories in black manuscript marker on top left of title page. An anthology film featuring three of American cinema's foremost auteurs with each unconnected segment united by their New York setting. The first Martin Scorsese's "Life Lessons" stars Nick Nolte as a frustrated painter infatuated with his assistant and ex-lover played by Rosanna Arquette. The second Francis Ford Coppola's "Life Without Zoe" co-written with his daughter Sofia Coppola is a whimsical updated remake of Kay Thompson's "Eloise" character about a poor little rich girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel starring Heather McComb and Talia Shire. The final segment Woody Allen's "Oedipus Wrecks" is a highspot comedy for Allen among many wherein he plays Sheldon a neurotic Jewish New York lawyer with a ridiculing overbearing mother. When Sheldon his shiksa fiancee and her children take his mother to a magic show she actually disappears to Sheldon's ultimate relief but then reappears in the sky over the New York hounding and nagging Sheldon and his fiancee while the whole city watches. Set and shot on location in New York City. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with untitled leaf dated 3/1/88. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 44. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Carlson Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown books
réf. 160226Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / APJAC Productions 1972. Revised Shooting script for the 1972 film. Based on Woody 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 "Play It Again Sam" is significant in that it predicted the more substantive romantic comedies that would gain him broader acclaim. Orange pictorial titled wrappers undated noted as REVISED SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as REVISED SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter and playwright Woody Allen. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good plus with light dampstains on the leaves and wrappers lightly toned. Bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Paramount Pictures / APJAC Productions unknown books
1963réf. 150213Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of director Luchino Visconti with actors Burt Lancaster and Serge Regiani on the set of the 1963 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and the stamp of photographer G. B. Poletto on the verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and tiny bruise on right side. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. Titanus unknown
1963réf. 150213Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of director Luchino Visconti with actors Burt Lancaster and Serge Regiani on the set of the 1963 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and the stamp of photographer G. B. Poletto on the verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and tiny bruise on right side. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. Titanus unknown books
réf. 160757N.p.: N.p. 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1979 short film. Copy belonging to uncredited actor Charles Hutchins with his name and role "The Court Clerk" in manuscript ink on the title page and his annotations in manuscript ink indicating scenes on three pages. The first film adaptation of the 1944 novel by Lillian Smith about a Black painter in 1940s Georgia whose attempt to register to vote culminates in his murder by a lynch mob. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film. Set in Georgia. Self wrappers. Title page present dated Feb. 20 1978 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Stephen B. Katz director Seth Pinsker and novelist Lillian Smith. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly edgeworn partially bound at the top left corner with three staples. N.p. unknown
réf. 160757N.p.: N.p. 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1979 short film. Copy belonging to uncredited actor Charles Hutchins with his name and role "The Court Clerk" in manuscript ink on the title page and his annotations in manuscript ink indicating scenes on three pages. The first film adaptation of the 1944 novel by Lillian Smith about a Black painter in 1940s Georgia whose attempt to register to vote culminates in his murder by a lynch mob. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film. Set in Georgia. Self wrappers. Title page present dated Feb. 20 1978 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Stephen B. Katz director Seth Pinsker and novelist Lillian Smith. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus lightly edgeworn partially bound at the top left corner with three staples. N.p. unknown books
réf. 163355Beverly Hills CA: Chartoff-Winkler Productions 1973. Revised Draft script for the 1974 film. Noted as copy No. 118 in manuscript ink on the title page. Loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel. A successful Harvard-educated literature professor finds himself in deep debt as his gambling addiction begins to spiral out of control. The first American film made by Czech-British filmmaker Karel Reisz. Set and shot on location in Las Vegas Tucson and New York. Mustard titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated July 26 1973 noted as Revised with credits for director Karel Reisz and screenwriter James Toback. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately soiled and edgeworn bound with two gold screw brads. Grant US. Imprint 49. Chartoff-Winkler Productions unknown
1961réf. 156281Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Collection of 22 vintage double weight oversize reference photographs from the 1961 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. The first entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a glimpse into a private world seen through a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. About Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and light edgewear. Criterion Collection 209. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1961réf. 156281Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Collection of 22 vintage double weight oversize reference photographs from the 1961 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. The first entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a glimpse into a private world seen through a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. About Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and light edgewear. Criterion Collection 209. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri unknown books
réf. 150990N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film including eight borderless and one with narrow margins and wide bottom margin. Two bear provenance stamps on the verso and one bears the stamp of photographer Andre Marinie. Three in the collection are on the set photographs featuring director Jacques Demy. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault and loosely based on Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 10.5 x 7 inches. Generally about Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. N.p. unknown books
réf. 167972N.p.: N.p. 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film seen here under the working title "ROMENEWYORKPARISL.A.HELSINKI." Annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page noting times in the cities in which the film is set. An anthology of five stories about taxicab drivers in five different cities who experience a variety of humorous romantic and unusual situations as they encounter patrons on their nighttime shifts. Set and shot on location in Helsinki Paris Rome New York and Los Angeles. Mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1990 noted as copy No. 32 in manuscript ink with credit for screenwriter Jim Jarmusch. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 87 and dated September 17 1990. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a black Velo binding. N.p. unknown
réf. 167972N.p.: N.p. 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film seen here under the working title "ROMENEWYORKPARISL.A.HELSINKI." Annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page noting times in the cities in which the film is set. An anthology of five stories about taxicab drivers in five different cities who experience a variety of humorous romantic and unusual situations as they encounter patrons on their nighttime shifts. Set and shot on location in Helsinki Paris Rome New York and Los Angeles. Mylar front wrapper black rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1990 noted as copy No. 32 in manuscript ink with credit for screenwriter Jim Jarmusch. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 87 and dated September 17 1990. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a black Velo binding. N.p. unknown books
réf. 153226Paris: Alpha France 1975. Archive of material relating to the production and release of the 1974 US adult film a period costume drama. From the US production of the film: 72 vernacular color snapshots each with a small label affixed to the corner with the film's French title and 18 snapshot-size contact photographs. From the French release of the film: three double weight glossy French lobby cards three copies of a black and white French program one color French program and one moyenne film poster for the French release with the French title "Soumise et perverse Cecilie". Vernacular color snapshots and contact photographs are essentially the keybook photos for the film numerically annotated in manuscript marker and wax pencil respectively one photograph with cropping annotation on recto in manuscript yellow wax pencil. French lobby cards with "Soumise et perverse Cecilie" stickers to upper corners. Black and white flyers with credits and synopsis on verso and color flyer with black and white photographs and synopsis on verso. An extravagant pornographic period costume piece by noted "prestige pornography" director Lee Frost here under the pseudonym F.C. Perl Franklin C. Perl wherein the beautiful 17 year old London girl Cecily Angela Carnon is sold into sexual servitude to a perverse and sadistic countess in France to pay off her deceased father's gambling debts. Frost a favorite of Quentin Tarantino was well known for his high-concept grindhouse films such as the notorious roughie "Climax of Blue Power" made the same year as this film 1974 "The Thing with Two Heads" 1972 "Chrome and Hot Leather" 1971 "Chain Gang Women" 1971 and "The Black Gestapo" 1975 and was the screenwriter for one of the great road movies "Race with the Devil" 1975. Set in Renaissance France. 72 Vernacular color snapshots 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. 18 contact sheet photographs 4 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. Three French lobby cards 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to far corners and two with pinholes at corners. Three black and white flyers 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Some very light soiling to outer borders one with a horizontal crease and a single line annotation in red manuscript marker on verso else Near Fine. Color flyer 9 x 12 inches. Very Good with creasing at extremities. Poster 22.5 x 30 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Alpha France unknown
réf. 153226Paris: Alpha France 1975. Archive of material relating to the production and release of the 1974 US adult film a period costume drama. From the US production of the film: 72 vernacular color snapshots each with a small label affixed to the corner with the film's French title and 18 snapshot-size contact photographs. From the French release of the film: three double weight glossy French lobby cards three copies of a black and white French program one color French program and one moyenne film poster for the French release with the French title "Soumise et perverse Cecilie". Vernacular color snapshots and contact photographs are essentially the keybook photos for the film numerically annotated in manuscript marker and wax pencil respectively one photograph with cropping annotation on recto in manuscript yellow wax pencil. French lobby cards with "Soumise et perverse Cecilie" stickers to upper corners. Black and white flyers with credits and synopsis on verso and color flyer with black and white photographs and synopsis on verso. An extravagant pornographic period costume piece by noted "prestige pornography" director Lee Frost here under the pseudonym F.C. Perl Franklin C. Perl wherein the beautiful 17 year old London girl Cecily Angela Carnon is sold into sexual servitude to a perverse and sadistic countess in France to pay off her deceased father's gambling debts. Frost a favorite of Quentin Tarantino was well known for his high-concept grindhouse films such as the notorious roughie "Climax of Blue Power" made the same year as this film 1974 "The Thing with Two Heads" 1972 "Chrome and Hot Leather" 1971 "Chain Gang Women" 1971 and "The Black Gestapo" 1975 and was the screenwriter for one of the great road movies "Race with the Devil" 1975. Set in Renaissance France. 72 Vernacular color snapshots 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. 18 contact sheet photographs 4 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. Three French lobby cards 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to far corners and two with pinholes at corners. Three black and white flyers 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Some very light soiling to outer borders one with a horizontal crease and a single line annotation in red manuscript marker on verso else Near Fine. Color flyer 9 x 12 inches. Very Good with creasing at extremities. Poster 22.5 x 30 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Alpha France unknown books
réf. 150817The Hague: Allarts 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class French restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit sexuality. Set in the UK. Red titled wrappers with credits for director Peter Greenaway on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for director Peter Greenaway. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Allarts unknown
réf. 150817The Hague: Allarts 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class French restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit sexuality. Set in the UK. Red titled wrappers with credits for director Peter Greenaway on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for director Peter Greenaway. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Allarts unknown books
1948réf. 167637Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1948. Treatment script for the key 1948 film noir. In Jaffe Agency wrappers stamped "FILE COPY" and "JAFFE AGENCY" at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Robert Altman's first screenwriting credit he would not direct his first feature film for another 20 years and Richard Fleischer's first directorial effort a tight noir second feature. Altman is credited here alongside another first-time screenwriter George W. George who would go on to be a prolific screenwriter with credits for such films as "The Woman on Pier 13" 1949 and "Big House USA" 1955. Set in Los Angeles and an early example of a noir film with a large amount of location shooting throughout the Los Angeles area. Tan agency wrappers "The Jaffe Agency" printed at the bottom of the front wrapper and with their diamond TJA logo at the center Title page present with credits for screenwriters Altman and George. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication. Pages about Near Fine with a small chip at the bottom right corner of the title page wrapper Very Good plus internally bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
réf. 161161Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1987. Revised Second Draft script for the 1989 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Francis Kenny with his name in manuscript ink on the title page and his ink and pencil annotations on several pages noting deletions and occasional additions. A dark satire of the popular John Hughes teen comedies of the early 1980s today considered a classic coming-of-age film. The debuts of both director Michael Lehmann and screenwriter Daniel Waters. Set in Sherwood Ohio and shot on location in Los Angeles California. White untitled New World Pictures production wrappers. Title page present dated November 17 1987 noted as REVISED SECOND DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Daniel Waters. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
réf. 161161Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1987. Revised Second Draft script for the 1989 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Francis Kenny with his name in manuscript ink on the title page and his ink and pencil annotations on several pages noting deletions and occasional additions. A dark satire of the popular John Hughes teen comedies of the early 1980s today considered a classic coming-of-age film. The debuts of both director Michael Lehmann and screenwriter Daniel Waters. Set in Sherwood Ohio and shot on location in Los Angeles California. White untitled New World Pictures production wrappers. Title page present dated November 17 1987 noted as REVISED SECOND DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Daniel Waters. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. New World Pictures unknown books
