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1960ref. 144417Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Charles Aznavour and Michele Mercier from the 1960 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Aznavour spends half his time playing saloon piano and half his time on the run in this early Truffaut masterpiece one of the great French noirs based on the 1956 hard-boiled novel "Down There" by American pulp author David Goodis. Criterion notes: "François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this his most playful film. Part thriller part comedy part tragedy Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie Charles Aznavour in a triumph of hangdog deadpan as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags guns clowns and thugs this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague." 11.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Grant France. Les Films de la Pleiade unknown books
1969ref. 143149Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1969. Collection of eight vintage lobby cards for the 1969 French neo-noir film. A late and important color noir made at what was arguably the peak of François Truffaut's success as a filmmaker dedicated to one of his elders Jean Renoir and shot during the time he was deeply involved with lead actress Catherine Deneuve. Based on the 1947 novel by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish. 10.5 x 8.25 inches. Fine. Grant France. Twilight Time. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1969ref. 150498N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director François Truffaut and actors Catherine Deneuve then Truffaut's wife and Jean-Paul Belmondo on location for the 1969 French neo-noir film. With the stamp of Cahiers du Cinema on the verso along with manuscript pencil and ink annotations. Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness." A wealthy plantation owner on an island in the Indian Ocean anticipates the arrival of his bride-to-be but is surprised to discover the woman who arrives from France bears no resemblance to the woman in the photograph. Set on Reunion Island and Nice France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 151531Paris: les Films du Carrosse 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director François Truffaut on the set of the 1969 French neo-noir film. Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness." A wealthy plantation owner on an island in the Indian Ocean anticipates the arrival of his bride-to-be but is surprised to discover the woman who arrives from France bears no resemblance to the woman in the photograph. Set in and shot on Reunion Island and Nice France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1969ref. 149334Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of director François Truffaut and actors Catherine Deneuve then Truffaut's wife and Jean-Paul Belmondo on the set of the 1969 French neo-noir film. With manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout on the verso along with the stamp of France-Soir dated 9 JUIL. JULY 1969 and a newspaper clipping affixed to the lower right corner. Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness." A wealthy plantation owner on an island in the Indian Ocean anticipates the arrival of his bride-to-be but is surprised to discover the woman who arrives from France bears no resemblance to the woman in the photograph. Set on Reunion Island and Nice France. 8 x 12 inches. Very Good slightly wavy with two small manuscript ink annotations regarding cropping to the recto. Grant US. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1969ref. 143150Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1969. Seven vintage lobby cards for the US release of the 1969 French neo-noir film. A late and important color noir made at what was arguably the peak of Truffaut's success as a filmmaker dedicated to one of his elders Jean Renoir and shot during the time he was deeply involved with lead actress Catherine Deneuve. Based on the 1947 novel by Cornell Woolrich writing as William Irish. 14 x 11 inches. Fine. Grant France. Twilight Time. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1968ref. 150870N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vntage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Claude Brialy from the 1968 film. Based on the classic 1940 crime novel by Cornell Woolrich a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. A beautiful widow hunts down then seduces and kills the five men responsible for accidentally killing her beloved on their wedding day. An unforgettable performance from Moreau. Shot on location throughout France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 144362Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1970. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1970 film. With credits and Cinestar agency stamps and "Cinestar" in manuscript ink on the verso. The fourth in Truffaut's five film series about the character Antoine Doinel. Christine Clause Jade and Antoine Doinel Jean-Pierre Léaud are expecting their first child when Antoine has an affair with a woman he meets in a business meeting at his new job after a period of unemployment. Shot on location in Paris France. 7.25 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 187. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1975ref. 151533Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffaut cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn and cast and crew members on the set of the 1976 film. French and English printed snipe and "Sygma" and photographer "Simonpietri" stamps on verso. An interrelated series of vignettes about the lives of children in a small French town primarily using non-professional actors ranging in age from infancy to 14 years old. One of Truffaut's best loved and most financially successful films. Set in and shot on location in and around Thiers France. 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1960ref. 163339N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of actor Charles Aznavour and director François Truffaut on the set of the 1960 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and a printed provenance label on the verso. Aznavour spends half his time playing saloon piano and half his time on the run in this early Truffaut masterpiece one of the great French noirs based on the 1956 hard-boiled novel "Down There" by American pulp author David Goodis. Criterion notes: "François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this his most playful film. Part thriller part comedy part tragedy Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie Charles Aznavour in a triumph of hangdog deadpan as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags guns clowns and thugs this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague." 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 315. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 151523Paris: les Films du Carrosse 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph with bottom margin of François Truffaut and Guy Decomble on the set of the 1959 film. "Les Quatre Cents Coups" and "Telerama" stamps on verso. Truffaut's auspicious debut winner of Best Director at Cannes nominated for the Palme d'Or and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 5. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1975ref. 135604Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set both in front of the camera and behind it and the fourth is a lovely shot of Truffaut in uniform next to Isabelle Adjani. Stamp of French press agency Les Artiests Associes on the verso of each print. Based on the diaries of the youngest daughter of author Victor Hugo about a woman whose romantic obsession with an indifferent military captain eventually leads to her despair and madness. Isabelle Adjani was nominated for an Academy award making her at age 20 the youngest Best Actress nominee of all time in 1975. Story set in Halifax Nova Scotia shot on location in Barbados Senegal and the Channel Islands. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes unknown books
1975ref. 150678N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference photograph of François Truffaut and Isabelle Adjani on the set of the 1975 film. Based on the diaries of Adele Hugo youngest daughter of French writer Victor Hugo. Adele Hugo's Isababelle Adjani romantic obsession with the indifferent British officer Lieutenant Pinson Bruce Robinson leads her to follow him to Halifax and eventually succumb to madness and despair. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Adjani at age 20 making her the youngest nominee for the award at the time. Set in Halifax Nova Scotia shot on location in Senegal and Channel Islands. 12 x 9.5 inches. Light soiling in margin else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 144816Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Vintage photograph of actors Julie Christie and Oskar Werner director François Truffaut and various members of the crew on the set of the 1966 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Shot on location in England and France. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 151998London: Gala Film Distributors 1972. Three vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1972 French film. With a promotional gold foil label at the bottom right corner of each recto as issued. Based on the 1967 novel by Henry Farrell. A young criminologist falls in love with his subject a woman accused of murdering her lover and her father. 15.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus overall with tiny punch holes at the corners as issued. Gala Film Distributors unknown
1962ref. 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
1970ref. 144362Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1970. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1970 film. With credits and Cinestar agency stamps and "Cinestar" in manuscript ink on the verso. The fourth in Truffaut's five film series about the character Antoine Doinel. Christine Clause Jade and Antoine Doinel Jean-Pierre Léaud are expecting their first child when Antoine has an affair with a woman he meets in a business meeting at his new job after a period of unemployment. Shot on location in Paris France. 7.25 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 187. Les Films du Carrosse unknown
1973ref. 150118N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffault and crew at a woodsy shooting location the 1973 film. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of shooting a fictional film. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and nominated for Best Supporting Actress Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. image: 9.5 x 3.75 inches. Light edgewear and soiling on verso else Near Fine Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 150485N.p.: N.p. 1973. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1973 French film four showing actors Dani Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Leaud and one showing director François Truffaut speaking into a walkie-talkie. With a stamp noting the film's French title "Nuit Americain" on the verso along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. A couple lightly edgeworn else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 142161Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / PECF / Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica PIC 1973. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1973 film. Director François Truffaut positions Jacqueline Bisset for a shot while a crew member measures for focus in the background. With stamps from the French magazine "Telerama" on the verso. One of the great films about film chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of shooting a fictional film. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and nominated for Best Supporting Actress Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV. Les Films du Carrosse / PECF / Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica [PIC] unknown
1966ref. 168426Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film two with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and one with a mimeo snipe printed on the verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Truffaut's fifth film set in a dystopian future in which all books are burned and free thought is actively discouraged. Set in and shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1966ref. 148214Universal City: Universal Film 1966. Collection of 16 vintage color French lobby cards from the 1966 film. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Set in and shot on location in England. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus pinholes to corners with come corner and edgewear. Universal Film unknown
1966ref. 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
1966ref. 144816Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Vintage photograph of actors Julie Christie and Oskar Werner director François Truffaut and various members of the crew on the set of the 1966 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Shot on location in England and France. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1962ref. 151990Paris: les Films du Carrosse 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Henri Serre painting a moustache on Jeanne Moreau from the 1962 film. Based on the 1953 novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. One of the founding films of the French New Wave examining a long relationship between two men and an impulsive young woman before during and after the First World War. Shot on location throughout France. 7 x 9.25 inches. Small crease on far bottom left corner else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 281. Ebert II. Schrader Canon Fodder 27. les Films du Carrosse unknown