1970rif. 161892N.p.: Cinetron 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A white slavery ship travels through Asian waters searching for clients and captors. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and a red wax pencil annotation to the bottom right margin else Near Fine. Cinetron unknown
1954rif. 170763N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage reference photograph from the 1954 film showing Judy Garland singing with her band. The second of four productions of "A Star is Born" following the 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and followed by one in 1976 starring Barbra Streisand and one in 2018 starring Lady Gaga. Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance which was heavily promoted by MGM as her comeback to the screen after a four-year hiatus. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine lightly faded to the right side. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1964rif. 161870N.p.: Juniper Productions 1964. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. An obscure 1960s sexploitation film from director and screenwriter Jai Hais. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Juniper Productions unknown
1964rif. 170747N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film showing Frank A. Coe as Frankenstein's monster holding a nude woman. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An alien lands on Earth in order to kidnap the perfect human woman to use to create a race of servants for his home world. He finds the answer in the laboratory of mad scientist Dr. Breedlove. Originally titled "Dr. Breedlove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love" then retitled "Kiss Me Quick" in order to exploit Billy Wilder's "Kiss Me Stupid." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1996rif. 170742N.p.: N.p. 1996. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph from the 1996 film showing Ewan McGregor drinking with his friends. Director Danny Boyle's second and best-known film an adaptation of the acclaimed 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh a darkly comic examination of the life of a heroin addict trying desperately to extract himself from his habit and the accompanying lifestyle. McGregor rose to international stardom on the strength of his performance as the lead Mark Renton and would return for the sequel "T2 Trainspotting" released in 2017. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1949rif. 170744Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1949. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film noir. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Loosely based on the Faust myth about a district attorney who makes a deal with the devil in order to put a criminal ringleader behind bars. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good or better lightly toned with creasing at three corners. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1968rif. 170748N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film showing Raquel Welch in a headscarf and bikini. A mob boss works with a pair of kidnappers to pull off a huge heist bringing in a criminal mastermind to help run the operation. Set and shot on location in France and Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1991rif. 170749N.p.: N.p. 1991. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1991 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos noting the film's French title. Based on William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel. Poorly received upon release but today considered a cult film faithful to the spirit of the author's Beat classic if not the actual text. Set in Interzone and Annexia shot on location in Ontario. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine to Fine. Criterion Collection 220. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1974rif. 170745N.p.: John Boorman Productions 1974. Vintage color reference photograph of Sean Connery and Sara Kestlman from the 1974 film. After the critical and commercial success of 1972's "Deliverance" director John Boorman was given almost total creative freedom for his next film. He responded by costuming Sean Connery in red briefs and suspenders thigh-high boots a handlebar mustache and a long braid and setting him loose in a utopian city of nearly catatonically bored immortals as a ruthless killer doing the violent bidding of a giant floating talking stone head. In his spare time he woos and has a child with Charlotte Rampling. Somewhat obviously the film has since become a cult classic. Shot on location in Ireland. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 1147. John Boorman Productions unknown
1975rif. 170771France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Collection of promotional ephemera from the 1975 French film including a program ten lobby cards and two black-and-white reference photographs. Text in French. One of ten films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgängers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. Lobby cards 10: 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs 2: 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Program: 7.25 x 10.25 inches. 17 leaves. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. All material housed together in an original glassine envelope as issued. Arcadie Productions unknown
1981rif. 170739N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage color publicity photograph from the 1981 neo-noir film showing a scantily clad Kathleen Turner. Stamp of Cine-Street on the verso. A young woman manipulates her lover a small-town lawyer into killing her wealthy husband. A watershed neo-noir update to the classic femme fatale of the 1940s and 1950s. Set and shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
1971rif. 170740Burbank CA: American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film showing George Lucas on the set. Stamp of photographer Michel Ciment and layout annotations on the verso. Given everything that would follow "THX-1138" could easily be described as the most successful student film of all time developed by George Lucas in 1967 as a short called "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" while he was attending the University of Southern California's film school. The feature film version was one of the first efforts produced under the auspices of Lucas' friend Francis Ford Coppola. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. American Zoetrope / Warner Brothers unknown
1964rif. 170777N.p.: N.p. 1964. Four vintage color transparencies from the 1964 film all four showing Tippi Hedren. Based on Winston Graham's 1961 novel which follows a wealthy businessman's unwanted often cruel attempts to help a troubled young woman come to terms with her past. The production faced several setbacks in its development most relating to Hitchcock's insistence on including a rape scene present in the novel and the subsequent troubles in casting the lead role given the emotional complexity demanded for the character. Set and shot on location in California Pennsylvania New Jersey Virginia and Maryland. 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1973rif. 170770New York: A.B. Enterprises 1973. Vintage press kit for the 1973 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing three black and white photographs and eight gatherings of promotional reading material. The third film in Don Schain's "Ginger" series following "Ginger" in 1971 and "The Abductors" in 1972. Shot in the Virgin Islands and Washington DC. Folder photographs and promotional material generally Near Fine. A.B. Enterprises unknown
1985rif. 170772Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1985. 14 vintage reference photographs from the 1985 Japanese pink film. An office worker is kidnapped by bank robbers and erotic hijinks ensue. A mid-career release by noted pink film director Shûji Kataoka. 6 x 4.25 inches. Very Good plus eight with single pinholes at the corners with some faint scattered foxing and light toning to the versos. Nikkatsu unknown
1995rif. 170738N.p.: N.p. 1995. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the 1995 film showing actors Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue in one of many melancholy moments. Based on John O'Brien's 1990 semi-autobiographical novel about a screenwriter who having lost everything else in his life moves to Las Vegas in order to drink himself to death. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Actor for Cage. O'Brien died by suicide two weeks after signing away the film rights to his novel. Shot on location in Las Vegas. 10 x 6.75 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1988rif. 170779Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1988. Seven vintage 35mm color slides from the 1988 documentary film. A chronicle of John Lennon's life commissioned by Yoko Ono in 1986 using previously unreleased recordings and archival footage. Shot on location in London and New York. 1.5 x 1 inches housed individually in 2 x 2 inch cardboard sleeves. Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1990rif. 170773N.p.: N.p. 1990. Five vintage color transparencies from the 1990 film showing cast members during filming on location. A characteristically oddball romantic comedy set in Baltimore in the 1950s about the romance between rockabilly outcast Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker and an upper-class girl named Allison. Shot on location throughout Maryland in Ellicott City Hampden Baltimore Reisterstown Jessup Milford Mill and Sykesville and in Santa Clarita California and Hershey Pennsylvania. 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972rif. 170735N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film the final outdoor scene with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Annotations in manuscript ink in French on the verso. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning for Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Marlon Brando. Set in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and Cuba shot on location in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and the Dominican Republic. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine lightly edgeworn. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader Canon Fodder 16. Sight and Sound 2022. N.p. unknown
1972rif. 170776N.p.: N.p. 1972. Eight vintage borderless reference photographs from the seminal 1972 hardcore film. Based on the anonymous short story of the same title circulated throughout the US in the 1950s and 1960s by means of carbon copy. One of of the first American hardcore pictures to receive widespread distribution in the US and one of the first heterosexual pornographic films to feature an interracial sex scene. A breakthrough role for actress Marilyn Chambers who would go on to become one of the first icons in the adult film industry and even worked briefly in mainstream cinema. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1975rif. 171026Paris: Sygma 1975. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1975 film showing Corine Clery and Ugo Kier. Mimeo snipe Sygma stamp and Belgian agency stamp on the verso. Based on Paulie Réage's 1954 novel an attempt to emulate the writing of the Marquis de Sade from a woman's perspective and considered quite scandalous when published. Followed by a sequel in 1984 "The Story of O: Chapter 2." 12 x 8 inches with wide margins. Very Good plus. Sygma unknown
1969rif. 171030Paris: Jet Film / Two World Enterprises / Les Films du Losange 1969. Vintage press kit for the 1969 film including five studio still photographs and a bound gathering of publicity material. Text in English. A German college graduate and an American expatriate hitchhike from Paris to Ibiza where the bliss of island life quickly gives way to heroin addiction and hedonism. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Set and shot on location in Paris and Ibiza. Photographs Near Fine promotional material Very Good plus perfect-bound in wrappers with front wrapper partially detached from the binding. BFI 1040. Jet Film / Two World Enterprises / Les Films du Losange unknown
1964rif. 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
1988rif. 171028Paris: Sygma 1988. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1988 film showing Barbara Hershey with curly hair and heavily hennaed hands and arms. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the controversial 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantazkis adapted by Paul Schrader. Departing from the Gospels' depiction of Jesus Christ the film explored the humanity of Jesus and the various temptations he encountered during his time on Earth incurring outrage upon release from some Christian groups. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. Shot on location in Morocco. 8 x 12 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 70. Sygma unknown
1955rif. 171011Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film showing music department head Ray Heindorf and director Jack Webb talking on the set. Printed mimeo snipe and Warner Brothers stamp on the verso. Based on the 1951 radio series about a bandleader and jazz cornetist working at a speakeasy in Prohibition-era Kansas City. Actress Peggy Lee was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as alcoholic singer Rose Hopkins. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Grant US. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
