1988Best.-Nr. 148326Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures 1988. Vintage studio still photograph of Gena Rowlands and Mia Farrow from the 1988 film. Philosophy professor Marion Post Rowlands overhears the therapy sessions of another woman Farrow and begins to question her own happiness and the choices she's made. One of Woody Allen's few dramatic films without any comedic elements. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 150805Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen and Diane Keaton on the set of the 1978 film. Three adult sisters struggle to cope with the separation of their parents and their mother's subsequent mental decline. Director Woody Allen's first drama without comedic elements. Shot on location in New York City Southampton and Westchester County New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 164698N.p.: N.p. 1977. Set of seven color studio still photographs from the 1977 film each machine-numbered at the bottom left corner: 1 2 3 4 5 6 8. A romantic comedy about the strange relationship between a neurotic comedian and his quirky girlfriend. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress and Best Actor. Shot on location in California and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1977Best.-Nr. 157687N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage reference photograph from the 1977 film showing director and actor Woody Allen. A romantic comedy about the strange relationship between a neurotic comedian and his quirky girlfriend. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress and Best Actor. Shot on location in California and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 159146N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film showing director Woody Allen and actress Louise Lasser. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. 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. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
Best.-Nr. 159835New York: Rollins and Joffe Productions 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the title page striking the working title "El Weirdo." The draft notably features the film's original ending which Woody Allen's editor Ralph Rosenblum convinced him to replace showing Allen emerging from a bombing in inadvertent sooty blackface and participating in a Black uprising on a university campus. 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. Allen's third feature film the first in which he had nearly full creative control and the third and final film he wrote with Mickey Rose. Preceded by "What's Up Tiger Lily" 1966 and "Take the Money and Run" 1969. Set in the fictional "banana republic" of San Marcos and shot on location in New York and Puerto Rico. Black Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with a rubber stamped titled label. Title page present dated March 24 1970 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Mickey Rose. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 4-28-70 and 4-30-28. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold screw brads. Rollins and Joffe Productions 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
1989Best.-Nr. 150949Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1989. Vintage reference photograph of Martin Landau and Woody Allen on the set of the 1989 film. One of Allen's finest films a dark drama with comic elements interweaving two opposing stories. In one ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal's Landau mistress Angelica Huston threatens to reveal their affair unless he leaves his wife Miriam Claire Bloom. Responding to the threat his gangster brother Jack Jerry Orbach offers to have her killed. In the other documentary filmmaker Clifford Stern Allen is hired by his pompous television producer brother-in-law Alan Alda to make a documentary about him and begins to fall in love with producer Halley Reed Mia Farrow. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Martin Landau. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert III. Schrader Canon Fodder 39. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 147580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Collection of nine photographs including six black and white vintage studio still photographs two-color studio still photographs and one black and white reference photograph for the 1971 film. Included with the collection is a xerographically duplicated four-page set of captions intended to accompany the set with "for reference" written in manuscript ink annotation across the first leaf. Loosely based on David Reuben's 1969 book. Seven comic vignettes centering different weird and wacky sexual proclivities including exhibitionism bestiality and sadism. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 145746Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1972. Vintage photograph of Woody Allen and Louise Lasser on the set of the 1972 film. With manuscript annotations and adhesive tape on the verso. Woody Allen's comical take on David Reuben's 1969 book of the same name. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 150946Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1992. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen Mia Farrow and Judy Davis on the set of the 1992 film. Married couple Jack and Sally Sydney Pollack and Davis casually inform their best friends married couple Gabe and Judy Allen and Farrow they are separating leading Gabe and Judy to question the stability of their own relationship. One of Woody Allen's most celebrated films a pointed examination of marriage love and vulnerability. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Davis. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown
1978Best.-Nr. 150785Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Complete set of eight vintage black and white color studio still photographs from the 1978 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Three adult sisters struggle to cope with the separation of their parents and their mother's subsequent mental decline. Director Woody Allen's first drama without comedic elements. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 127315Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A coward accidentally becomes a war hero after being forced into in the Russian army. The last of Allen's early outrageous comedies before pursuing a more narrative and dramatic approach beginning with "Annie Hall" 1977. Set in Russia shot on location in France and Hungary. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
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
1972Best.-Nr. 153215Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actors Woody Allen and Diane Keaton from the 1972 film. Based on Allen's 1969 play. The predecessor of many great 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 era. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. Grant US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 151309Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1972. Vintage borderless photograph of actor Woody Allen from the 1972 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Allen's 1969 play. The predecessor of many great 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 era. 10 x 7.5 inches. Very Good plus overall. Grant US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 150950Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1987. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen cinematographer Carlo Di Palma and crew on the set of the 1987 film. Allen's love letter to the Golden Age of Radio wherein narrator Joe a Jewish-American New Yorker reminisces about growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in Rockaway Queens initiating a series of vignettes of radio personalities intertwined with the life of Joe's working class family. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in Manhattan Brooklyn and Queens New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown
1973Best.-Nr. 127313Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1973. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1973 Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Shot on location in Colorado and California. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good with starting at the center folds light toning and a dampstain along the bottom portion of the vertical fold along with a few splashes. United Artists unknown
Best.-Nr. 150822Culver City CA: Culver City Studios 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film with the name "Jim Woods" in manuscript ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper and "13" on top right of title page in manuscript marker and on back wrapper are numeric entries in manuscript ink. Following script is a one page "APPENDIX A -- TV PLATE -- LUNA'S PARTY" featuring dialogue between a mother and child regarding a holiday party. Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Shot on location in Colorado and California. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1 1973 noted as REVISION #3 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of last 15 pages wrapper Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of back wrapper bound with two gold brads. Culver City Studios unknown
1973Best.-Nr. 143334Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1973. Vintage photograph from the 1973 film. A health food store owner is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against inept totalitarian government. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners light soil and some shallow creasing. United Artists unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 164241N.p.: N.p. 1969. Collection of eleven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film. Woody Allen's directorial debut the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. Allen stars as Virgil Starkwell a terribly inept bank robber whose life is told documentary-style with an FBI voiceover as well as interviews with his family and friends. Set and shot on location in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus to Very Good. N.p. unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 155890San Francisco: Hillary Productions 1968. Vintage Tentative Shooting Schedule for the 1969 film copy belonging to casting director Marvin Paige with the annotation of his name in manuscript marker in the top right corner of the title page and two underlines to "tentative" dated June 7 1968. The 51 page shooting schedule covering the 50 days of shooting from 6/17/68 through 8/23/68 is printed horizontally on goldenrod leaves and contains copied annotations on five pages circling the sequence number interior or exterior sequence night or day sequence and a needed effect. Woody Allen's directorial debut one of the great American comedies the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. Allen stars as Virgil Starkwell a terribly inept bank robber whose life is told documentary-style with an FBI voiceover as well as interviews with his family and friends. Set and shot on location in San Francisco and San Quentin State Prison. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with title page dated June 7 1968 with credits for director Woody Allen. 51 leaves with last page of text numbered 50. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue white and yellow revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine bound at the top with two gold brads. Hillary Productions unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 152346N.p.: N.p. 1969. Six vintage borderless satin-finish photographs from the 1969 film. Woody Allen's directorial debut the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. Allen stars as Virgil Starkwell a terribly inept bank robber whose life is told documentary-style with an FBI voiceover as well as interviews with his family and friends. Set and shot on location in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
