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1968Best.-Nr. 148783Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1968. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 French film. Buñuel's first color film about a bored and directionless young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work with tragic consequences for him and a jealous client involved in organized crime. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert I. Criterion Collection 593. Allied Artists unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 148773New York: Grove Press 1969. Six vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 Swedish film. Vilgot Sjoman's controversial erotic drama utilizing both dramatic and documentary filmmaking techniques stars Sjoman's then lover actress Lena Nyman as a young theater student examining the social and political mores of 1960s Sweden and her own sexuality. Parallel is the plot of the actors and filmmakers reacting as themselves to the film they are in the process of making. Seized by customs upon entry to the US and banned from numerous US cities for sexually explicit scenes it was found in 1969 not to be obscene by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opening the door to more frank and explicit subject matter in American film. The companion to Sjoman's 1968 film "I Am Curious Blue" which was initially intended to be combined with "I Am Curious Yellow" as one three and a half hour film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine most with very slight even fading. Criterion Collection 180. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Grove Press unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 148754New South Wales: Embassy Pictures 1963. Collection of 16 vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Based on French serial killer Henri Desire Landru. During World War I Henri Landru Charles Denner supplements his income by luring middle-class women through newspaper ads to a villa outside Paris where he seduces and kills them burns their bodies then helps himself to their bank accounts keeping himself his wife his mistress and his four children in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. Shot on location in Paris and Gambais France. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Light creasing in margins three with pinholes to corners one with notable creasing in left margin. Grant France. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 148894N.p.: N.p. 1965. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1965 film. Two studio still photographs of Ursula Andress on production designer Piero Poletto's striking minimalist set and two compilation fashion photographs of Andress in costume bookending Costume Designer Giulio Coltellacci's concept drawings. Two photographs with "La Decima Victima" stamp on verso. An international cult classic based on the 1953 short story "Seventh Victim" by Robert Sheckley. Sheckley wrote the novelization of the film in 1956 and two sequels "Victim Prime" and "Victim" in 1987 and 1988 respectively. The worldwide officially sanctioned "Big Hunt" is the world's most popular television show giving those inclined to violence and those in search of celebrity a chance to act as "hunter" and "victim." The games top two assassins Caroline Meredith Andress and Macello Poletti Marcello Mastrianni who may be in love are pitted against each another. A descendant of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" 1924 and the first of the televised death game films such as "The Gladiators" 1969 "Death Race 2000" 1975 "The Running Man" 1987 and "The Hunger Games" 2012. Shot on location in New York Rome Geneva and Vatican City. 2 - 9.5 x 7.25 inches 2- 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 148770N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of Laurence Olivier and Brenda de Banzie from the 1960 British film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1957 play written at the behest of actor Laurence Olivier who reprised his role as Archie Rice an embittered third-rate music hall performer facing the dissipation of his industry and personal life. Olivier was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Shot on location in Morecambe Lancashire and West Yorkshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with layout annotations to top corners in manuscript wax pencil. N.p. unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 148752Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures Industries 1978. Two studio still photographs from the 1954 film struck by Columbia Pictures Television in 1978. Housed in a Columbia Pictures Television photos envelope stamped with title. Budd Schulberg based his 1955 novel "Waterfront" on the screenplay. Terry Malloy Brando who dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands for the corrupt boss of the local union Johnny Lee J. Cobb witnesses a murder at the hands of Johnny's men. When he meets the victim's sister Edie Eva Marie Saint he confesses he feels culpable for the murder and Edie introduces him to Father Barry Karl Malden who tries to persuade him to implicate the dock racketeers. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress nominated for another four. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1989. Shot on location in Hoboken New Jersey and New York City 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 647. Selby US. Ebert I. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Columbia Pictures Industries unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 148730New York: Janus Films 1961. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. Based on the 1948 novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski. The last film in the "war" trilogy that began Polish director Wajda's career as a director preceded by "Pokolenie" 1955 and "Kanal" 1957. A strong anti-war statement framed in the personae of two men given orders - from the part of the resistance that opposes the new Communist regime and on the last day of World War II in Poland - to murder a leading communist. One of Wajda's favorite performers and a friend Zbigniew Cybulski plays the man who eventually pulls the trigger and kills the communist leader with unexpected results. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 282. Janus Films unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 148846New York: Bill Doll and Company 1961. Two vintage borderless studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 Italian film. Large Astor Release snipe on verso one with "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on verso. Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with Mastroianni a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three others including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Bill Doll and Company unknown books
1938Best.-Nr. 148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937. Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 148847N.p.: Agence D E B. 1959. Two vintage French borderless studio still photographs from the 1959 film one of Martin LaSalle and one of Jean Pelegri. Mimeo snipe on verso one with annotations on verso. Bresson's first wholly original screenplay as opposed to one adapted from existing material perhaps the finest of his many films and according to one of its greatest champions Paul Schrader "as close to perfect as a film can be." 7.25 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 314. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosebaum 1000. Paul Schrader's Canon Fodder 4. Grant France Classic Noir. Selby France Classic Noir. Agence D E B. unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 148958Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage photograph of the Tower reader's edition of Cornell Woolrich's crime novel written under the pseudonym William Irish made as publicity the 1944 film adaptation. Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 148841Universal City: Universal Pictures 1967. Collection of ten vintage photographs including eight borderless reference photographs one borderless promotional photograph of Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton and one promotional studio still photographof the same from the 1967 film. Nine of these with a mimeo snipe on verso one with additional "David Lasceller" stamp on verso. Peter Watkin's outrageous and paranoiac dystopian satire of the world's most famous and beloved pop star who is controlled by a totalitarian British government. Patti Smith covered one of the film's songs "Set Me Free" as "Privilege Set Me Free" on her 1978 album "Easter." Set in a near-future England shot on location in London and Birmingham England. 8 x 10 inches. Light edge and corner wear else Near Fine. BFI Flipside 7. Universal Pictures unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with layout annotations in blue manuscript wax pencil to five images. Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 148891N.p.: Universal International Pictures 1966. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1966 film. Each with stamps on the verso reading "Girosign Ltd." and "393." Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Set in and shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good only with some creasing to several cards and some faint pen markings to one of the cards. Universal International Pictures unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 148876Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Daria Halprin seemingly trapped in the middle of a mid-century modern glass vestibule from the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. 8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 148879Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1929 part-talkie film. Mimeo snipes on the versos. Loosely based on the 1874 novel by Jules Verne. The benevolent scientist-leader of a volcanic island is attacked by an evil baron leading to a submarine chase in which they discover a race of water-bound humanoids. Shooting for the film began in 1926 but the advent of talkies and bad weather would slow production ultimately delaying release until 1929. Lauded as an impressive cinematic feat the astronomical price tag of the production-over $1 million in 1929-all but guaranteed the film would be a financial disaster at the box office turning studios off to the idea of science fiction for many years. All color copies were believed lost but in 2013 one existing color print was discovered in Prague and has since been restored through a collaboration between US film experts and the Czech National Film Archive. 8 x 10 inches. With even fading else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1962Best.-Nr. 148842N.p.: N.p. 1962. Four vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Rare. "Love at Twenty" is anthology film on the titular theme by five filmmakers Shintaro Ishihara Marcel Ophuls Renzo Rossellini François Truffault and Andrzej Wajda united with a score by Georges Delerue and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Truffaut's short is the second of five films which follow his alter-ego Antoine Doinel Jean-Pierre Léaud. The films in the Antoine Doinel series are "The 400 Blows" 1959 "Antoine and Colette" 1962 "Stolen Kisses" 1968 "Bed and Board" 1970 and "Love on the Run" 1979. Antoine now aged 17 falls in love for the first time to the lovely Colette Marie-France Pisier whose feelings though tender are not reciprocated. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 185. N.p. unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 148867North Hollywood: Republic Pictures 1949. Four vintage photographs two studio still photographs and two publicity photographs one iconic photograph of Robert Mitchum and one headshot of Shepperd Studwick all from the 1949 film. Based on the novella by John Steinbeck who also wrote the screenplay published in full in 1937. A young boy Peter Miles is enamored with the colt he has been entrusted to raise only to find the colt has caught an illness and is dying. Steinbeck's first film assignment though other Steinbeck screenplays would end up being released prior to "The Red Pony." At the time it was the longest and costliest production in Republic history borrowing Robert Mitchum from RKO and also starring Myrna Loy. Set in and shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing in margins and even fading on three of the photographs and a small bruise in the right margin of one. Republic Pictures unknown books
1956Best.-Nr. 148868Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of the American R&B and jump blues musical group The Treniers from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures Corp. stamp on verso. Rock and Roll star Arnie Haines Alan Dale returns home to the town of Melondale which banned Rock and Roll music and with the help of disc Jockey Alan Freed as himself tries to convince the town that the music won't turn their children into delinquents. With notable lip-syncing performances from Bill Haley and His Comets Little Richard and The Treniers. A follow-up to the 1956 Rock and Roll film "Rock Around the Clock" also directed by Fred F. Sears and written by Robert E. Kent and also featuring Alan Freed and Bill Haley and His Comets. Set in the fictitious town of Melondale shot on location in Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 148768N.p.: N.p. 1974. Four vintage double weight studio still photographs from US release of the 1973 Dutch film. Based on Jan Wolkers' 1969 novel. A gifted but poor sculptor marries a beautiful wealthy young woman but their relationship is tumultuous and soon sours. Director Paul Verhoeven's second feature film the screen debuts of both Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven and the most successful release in the history of Dutch cinema. Set in and shot on location in Noord-Holland and Rotterdam Netherlands. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 148870N.p.: The American Film Theatre 1973. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film housed in their original brown paper envelope stamped "The Homecoming 8 Stills." Based on the 1965 play by Harold Pinter who also wrote the screenplay. Teddy Michael Jayston brings his wife Ruth Vivien Merchant to visit his estranged and abrasive family in a dingy claustrophobic North London flat after a nine year absence. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. The American Film Theatre unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 148809N.p.: N.p. 1975. Two promotional portrait photographs of David Bowie likely used as part of a press release announcing Bowie's casting in the 1976 film "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Each with a fold over mimeo snipe from public relations firm Rogers and Cowan dated 5-29-75. One photograph with Bowie's name and RCA Records and Tapes printed in the bottom margin. Just three weeks prior RCA had released Bowie's ninth studio album "Young Americans" and earlier that year the BBC had broadcast the documentary "Cracked Actor" about the singer which led director Nicholas Roeg to cast Bowie in his upcoming adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1963 novel. 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with slight even fading else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 304. N.p. unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 148813New York: Janus Films 1964. Collection of thirteen vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipe and "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on the verso. The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly" 1961 and "Winter Light"1963. A stark and enigmatic allegory fueled by subtle performances from Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. Ester Thulin a translator and intellectual suffering from a terminal disease is traveling home with her younger resentful sister Anna Linblom and Anna's son Johan Jorgen Lindstrom when they stop in the town of Timoka in a fictional European county on the brink of war with an unknown dialect. After they check into a nearly empty hotel with the exception of a group of Spanish dwarves in a traveling show Anna leaves and has an affair with a waiter as Johan wanders the hallways. Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day. 8 x 10 inches. Three with faint even fading one with pinholes to corners one with a small closed tear in top margin else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 211. Ebert III. Janus Films unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 148811West Hollywood: Eagle-Lion Films 1947. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1948 British film. One with Dion McGregor Collection stamp on the verso. After sustaining a head injury in a bus crash young scientist convalesces in a boardinghouse where a young woman is brutally murdered. Now a prime suspect with a poor memory due to the accident and no alibi he begins to wonder if he could have done it. Roy Ward Baker's directorial debut. Shot on location in Buckinghamshire and London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus light corner and edgewear one with small chip to upper left corner two with pinholes and modest bruising. Selby Master. Selby UK. Grant UK. Spicer UK. Eagle-Lion Films unknown books
Best.-Nr. 148810Tokyo: Toho 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. Annotations relate to the following: a names of the chosen cast members b set rehearsals and camera rehearsals c times for shooting e.g. Morning Afternoon Evening and Night phone numbers for production personnel d names of potential and/or hired camera assistants e names of potential and/or hired actors f indication of the production company chosen Toho Corporation as well as film stock and lens sizes to be used g additional notes regarding location of some settings h changes to dialogue and action and h some final post-production notes. Director Akira Kurosawa's first color film based on Shugoro Yamamoto's 1962 novel "Kisetsu no nai machi" A City Without Seasons. A series of vignettes about a slum in the suburbs of Tokyo and its impoverished inhabitants. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set and shot on location in Tokyo. Script: White titled wrappers. Title page present. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered d-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding. Schedule: White titled wrappers. 13 leaves with last page numbered 23. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a faintly toned spine and very faint foxing to the fore-edge side-stapled with two staples. Detailed notes with translation of annotations noted above with accompanying images are provided with the script. Toho unknown books
