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1949ref. 143058Tokyo: Film Art Association 1949. First Draft script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations from production on two leaves. Text in Japanese. Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. White titled wrappers. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mechanical duplication. Toning due to aging throughout wrapper split at spine with mild foxing otherwise Good condition. BFI 534. Criterion Collection 233. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan Classic Noir. Film Art Association unknown books
1950ref. 166097N.p.: N.p. 1950. Four vintage double weight satin-finish reference photographs from the 1950 Japanese film. Provenance labels and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Few foreign language films have made such a lasting impact on American audiences as director Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" a revolutionary cinematic work in terms of style and substance that challenged audiences about the nature of subjective experience. Winner of an honorary 1951 Academy Award for Most Outstanding Foreign Language Film Released in the United States and credited for being the reason the Academy created the "Best Foreign Film" category. Shot on location in Kyoto Nara and Tokyo Japan. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 138. Grant Japan. Ebert II. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
ref. 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
1962ref. 160922Tokyo: Toho / Kurosawa Productions 1962. Draft script for the 1963 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. A legendary Japanese noir based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes however that the boy they have taken is in fact the son of his chauffeur-and must decide whether he will bankrupt himself and his family in order to save a child that is not his own. A nuanced portrait of a man facing the potential destruction of his future further elevated by morally ambiguous characters and the gritty realism of its world. The fifteenth and penultimate film that leading actor Toshiro Mifune would make with director Akira Kurosawa and one of the highest grossing Japanese films of 1963 breaking Kurosawa's box office record for the third time. Shot on location in Kanagawa Japan. White titled perfect-bound wrappers dated 1962 with a protective titled dust jacket. Approximately 94 leaves with last page of text numbered e-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing on the top and bottom page edges. Jacket Very Good with moderate foxing on the extremities. Criterion Collection 24. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan. Toho / Kurosawa Productions unknown books
1957ref. 1717261957. Draft script for the 1957 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Akira Kurosawa's visceral ghostly adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" transposed to feudal Japan with elements drawn from Noh theatre. Shot on location in Shizuoka Tokyo and on Mount Fuji Japan. Brown titled wrappers. Approximately 57 leaves. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good wrapper Good perfect-bound with moderate toning throughout wrappers foxed and small chips and creases to page edges. BFI 2017. Criterion Collection 190. unknown books
1980ref. 163675N.p.: Toho Company 1980. Three vintage photographs from the 1980 film two film still photographs and a photograph of director Akira Kurosawa on the set with executive producers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy or kagemusha of a dying feudal lord based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film Coppola and Lucas convinced Twentieth Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights receiving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Set in Sengoku period shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle Himeji Castle Kumamoto Castle Yuhara Plain Hokkaido Japan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 267. Toho Company unknown books
ref. 149056New York: Greenwich Film Productions 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Text titles and annotations in Japanese. Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa winning one. Set in medieval Japan shot on location in Kumamoto Shizuoka Himeji Oita Aichi Yamagata and Tokyo Japan. Bright blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a lightly faded spine perfectly bound. Greenwich Film Productions unknown books
ref. 049457Istanbul. Soft cover. Very Good. Original autograph letter signed as 'Sadi' sent to Vasfi Riza Zobu. 1 p. In Ottoman script. Letterhead 'Ferah: Sinema-varyete-tiyaro'. Dated 31-12-1929 Istanbul. It starts as 'Muhterem Vasfi Riza bey'. Used black ink with fountain pen. It's a letter of appeal. Vasfi Riza Zobu was born on December 5 1902 in Constantinople Ottoman Empire. He was an actor known for Karim beni aldatirsa 1933 Ankara postasi 1928 and Milyon avcilari 1934. He died on November 23 1992 in Istanbul Turkey. Aktör Sadi started his art career as a theater actor. He appeared on the stage at school along with Muvahhit actor husband of paintress Bedia Muvahhit writer Refik Halit Karay and Refi 'Cevat Ulunay. After the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy he started the professional theater company which was founded by Resat Ridvanand the playwright Ibnürrefik Ahmet Nuri Sekizinci. Bican Efendi series in which he played the title role after the WW 1 was accepted from the first comedy of Turkish cinema history. paperback
1969ref. 167422Los Angeles: Paragon Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Count Dracula and his wife are alive or undead and well in modern-day Arizona where they use their hunchbacked butler to capture and kill young girls allowing them to drink their victims' blood in martini glasses as Bloody Marys. A humorously campy entry in the Dracula canon produced by noted exploitation studio Crown International Pictures. Set in Arizona shot on location in Lancaster California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Good moderately soiled and dampstained on the left and right sides bound with two gold brads. Paragon Pictures unknown
1969ref. 167422Los Angeles: Paragon Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Count Dracula and his wife are alive or undead and well in modern-day Arizona where they use their hunchbacked butler to capture and kill young girls allowing them to drink their victims' blood in martini glasses as Bloody Marys. A humorously campy entry in the Dracula canon produced by noted exploitation studio Crown International Pictures. Set in Arizona shot on location in Lancaster California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Good moderately soiled and dampstained on the left and right sides bound with two gold brads. Paragon Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 150115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures Inc." labels on verso. Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr. Al Capp famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner" portrays himself in a cameo role as well as providing promotional art for the film. Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan Bob Hope is hired as a ghost-writer for the pompous fiance George Sanders of his ex-wife Eva Marie Saint. Set in Port Huron Michigan and New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good with creasing primarily to margin. Paramount Pictures unknown
1956ref. 150115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1956. Vintage promotional reference photograph of Al Capp from the 1956 film. "Culver Pictures Inc." and "131242" stamps and two later date "Culver Pictures Inc." labels on verso. Based on the 1954 Broadway play "King of Hearts" by Jean Kerr. Al Capp famed cartoonist for his long-running satirical comic strip "Li'l Abner" portrays himself in a cameo role as well as providing promotional art for the film. Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan Bob Hope is hired as a ghost-writer for the pompous fiance George Sanders of his ex-wife Eva Marie Saint. Set in Port Huron Michigan and New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good with creasing primarily to margin. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 149647N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference studio still photograph of Al Goldstein Jody Maxwell and Jim Buckley from the 1975 film. Legendary pornographer and pornography activist Al Goldstein's attempt at bringing his weekly tabloid "Screw" magazine to the cinema a pastiche of sexually explicit shorts. Maxwell appears in the finale a "Tonight Show" like segment the longest segment in the film starring Buckley as host and Goldstein as sidekick. Maxwell starred in the film "Portrait" the year earlier directed by Gerard Damiano famed director of "Deep Throat" 1972 and "The Devil in Miss Jones" 1973. Shot on location in New York City Mount Vernon New York and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with small staining on mid right and light edgewear. Manuscript ink notation of the number "60" at the bottom margin with layout annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 149647N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference studio still photograph of Al Goldstein Jody Maxwell and Jim Buckley from the 1975 film. Legendary pornographer and pornography activist Al Goldstein's attempt at bringing his weekly tabloid "Screw" magazine to the cinema a pastiche of sexually explicit shorts. Maxwell appears in the finale a "Tonight Show" like segment the longest segment in the film starring Buckley as host and Goldstein as sidekick. Maxwell starred in the film "Portrait" the year earlier directed by Gerard Damiano famed director of "Deep Throat" 1972 and "The Devil in Miss Jones" 1973. Shot on location in New York City Mount Vernon New York and Philadelphia Pennsylvania. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with small staining on mid right and light edgewear. Manuscript ink notation of the number "60" at the bottom margin with layout annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 168017Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage printed caricature for the 1979 film showing Lee Marvin Linda Evans and Robert Shaw drawn by noted caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and issued by Twentieth Century-Fox to publicize the film. A defecting Russian general collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making the film a final effort for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1972ref. 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
1997ref. 171672Culver City CA: Columbia TriStar Films 1997. Two vintage composite studio still photographs from the 1997 film. Based on the 1988 book "Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia" by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley. An undercover FBI agent is unwittingly pulled into the Bonanno crime family and begins to rise in the family's ranks angering the older hitman who brought him in. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia TriStar Films unknown books
1972ref. 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 books
1965ref. 149476Chicago: Esquire 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. With the stamp of R.I.C. Productions in Brussels on the verso. A so-called modeling agency in New York City secretly operates as an undercover prostitution ring. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and edgeworn. Esquire unknown
1965ref. 149476Chicago: Esquire 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. With the stamp of R.I.C. Productions in Brussels on the verso. A so-called modeling agency in New York City secretly operates as an undercover prostitution ring. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and edgeworn. Esquire unknown books
1981ref. 144586Paris: Sara Films 1981. Two vintage contact sheets from the 1981 French film. With two holes punched into the left margin of each. Noel Yves Montand a retired gangster living on a large estate outside Paris with his wife Nicole Catherine Deneuve is met by two fugitives one is Serge Pierre Forget an old accomplice who is dying from a recent gun wound the other is Mickey Gerard Depardieu an unstable maniac. Mickey's paranoia and violent outburst pulls Noel into the conflict as the police are on his tail. A high stress series of shoot-outs ensues. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Sara Films unknown
1981ref. 144586Paris: Sara Films 1981. Two vintage contact sheets from the 1981 French film. With two holes punched into the left margin of each. Noel Yves Montand a retired gangster living on a large estate outside Paris with his wife Nicole Catherine Deneuve is met by two fugitives one is Serge Pierre Forget an old accomplice who is dying from a recent gun wound the other is Mickey Gerard Depardieu an unstable maniac. Mickey's paranoia and violent outburst pulls Noel into the conflict as the police are on his tail. A high stress series of shoot-outs ensues. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Sara Films unknown books
1970ref. 162139Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the American release of the 1970 French film showing actor Alain Delon. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on Eugene Saccomano's 1959 book "Bandits a Marseille." Two small time gangsters in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business vying with mob bosses for control. Director Jacques Deray released a sequel "Borsalino and Co" in 1974 starring Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla. Set and shot on location in Marseille and Paris. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn with two pinholes at each corner and adhesive residue on the verso. Grant France. Spicer France. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970ref. 135622Spain: Adel Productions 1970. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the Spanish release circa 1970 of the 1969 French-Italian film. Notations in manuscript ink and pencil in Spanish on the recto and verso. Presumably a press photograph with a cropping note on the recto translated: "contrast a little background". Jeff Rouquier is the mastermind who has planned a successful robbery but fails to show up for share-out. His girlfriend Eva Darc is tortured by accomplices until she squeals and begins search for Jeff with the help of his confidant Laurent Delon. Director Herman and Alain Delon also collaborated on the 1968 crime adventure "Farewell Friend" also starring Charles Bronson. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and foxing. Hardy The Gangster Film US. Adel Productions unknown
1969ref. 169582Paris: Gamma 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Romy Schneider and Alain Delon swimming together on the set. Gamma stamp crediting photographer J.P. Bonnotte on the verso along with layout annotations in manuscript pencil. A searing psychologically complex erotic thriller set in the dead of summer at a villa on the Côte d'Azur. A couple's holiday is unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover and his beautiful teenage daughter-with violent consequences. Co-written by noted screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere who penned some of Luis Buñuel's finest work. Shot on location at Côte d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1088. Grant France. Gamma unknown
