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1982ref. 144397Rome: Iterfilm 1982. Agency draft script in English for the 1982 Italian film. Antonioni's rarely discussed final feature but generally considered one of his greatest achievements. Niccolo Tomas Milian a recently divorced movie director pursues a new relationship with a younger woman Mavi Daniela Silverio who he imagines could play the leading role in his next film. She quickly vanishes and he embarks on a search to find her sparking up a series of romances with other women. Winner of the 35th Anniversary Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Venice and Rome. Blue untitled agency wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Michelangelo Antonioni. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Criterion Collection 585. Iterfilm unknown
1967ref. 141810Budapest: Mafilm 1967. Vintage Hungarian program for the 1967 film. Photo-illustrated with scenes from the film including one large image on the entirety of the verso. Text in Hungarian. One of the masterpieces of Hungarian cinema. A Russian-Hungarian co-production "The Red and the White" was originally commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in which the Bolsheviks seized power. However Jancso chose to set the action two years later in 1919 and showed Hungarian irregulars supporting the Communist "Reds" in fighting the Tsarist "Whites" as the two sides battled for control in the hills overlooking the Volga river. As well as deviating on the required setting Jancso also chose to use a radically different approach to the film than that expected. Rather than shooting a hagiographic account of the birth of Soviet communism Jancso produced a profoundly anti-heroic film that depicts the senseless brutality of the Russian Civil War specifically and all armed combat in general. 7.75 x 3.5 folded 15.25 x 10.75 unfolded. Near Fine. Rosebaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Mafilm unknown
1984ref. 170406N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1984 film showing director Milo Forman talking with actor F. Murray Abraham on the set. Based on Peter Shaffer's 1979 play. A dramatization of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as that of his jealous troubled rival Antonio Salieri. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning eight including Best Picture and Best Director. Set in Vienna shot on location in Prague Kromeriz and Vienna. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert II. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 138325Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov 1965. Original program for the 1965 film with text in both French and English made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with images from the film and line drawings. One of the best known films from the Czechoslovak New Wave nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and bringing Forman to international attention. 11.25 x 8.25 inches 6 pages saddle stapled in self wrappers. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 144. Second Run 54. Filmove studio Barrandov unknown
1977ref. 137778Canada: Paradise Films Limited 1977. Shooting script for the 1978 Canadian film seen here under its alternate title "I Miss You Hugs and Kisses" the title used for its recent restoration by Severin Films. Brief annotations in manuscript ink on two pages. Shot in flashback scenarios a beautiful model Sommer is murdered and left for dead in her garage and the key suspect is the person who discovered her dead: her husband Charles Pilon. Shot on location in Ontario. One of the non-prosecuted films included in the "Video Nasties" list a collection of video cassette releases distributed in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that were criticized for their violent content by social commentators religious organizations and the press. The list named over 70 films 39 prosecuted 33 non-prosecuted. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 25 1977 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Woods and Markowitz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with a black Vello binding. Paradise Films Limited unknown
1985ref. 162357N.p.: N.p. 1985. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1985 film including one showing actress Nastassja Kinski with director Arthur Joffe. A Wall Street trader is kidnapped by a wealthy sheik and brought to his harem where she begins to fall in love with him. Nominated for five César Awards winning two. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 139041Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1975 US film. Printed in England by Leonard Ripley. One of the most haunting and truly underrated films of the 1970s Schlesinger's "The Day of the Locust" translates Nathanael West's masterpiece into a dark funny and ultimately devastating commentary on the Hollywood system and its effect on the lives and dreams of an array of characters lost in it. Since its release the film has come to be considered by many Donald Sutherland's finest performance as well as a grand achievement in terms of script cinematography acting and design. Nominated for two Academy Awards. 30 x 40 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus with staple holes to the top edge and a notation in manuscript ink on the verso. Paramount Pictures unknown
1996ref. 170717Los Angeles: Atlas Entertainment 1996. Draft script for the 1998 film. An American remake of Wim Wenders' 1987 film "Wings of Desire" the setting moved to Los Angeles about an angel who falls in love with a human and decides to become mortal in order to live with her. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Generic white Atlas Entertainment wrappers. Title page present dated May 29 1996 with credit for screenwriter Dana Stevens. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Atlas Entertainment unknown
1990ref. 140789Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1990. Draft script for the 1992 film. Based on the 1988 play of the same name also by Craig Lucas. A young pessimistic woman who is a communist also works as a bartender and gets married to a conservative young man who works at a Chicago publishing house. At their wedding an old man asks to kiss Rita and when he does his soul changes places with her and now Peter must see beyond the physical to the beautiful soul underneath for the old man to kiss Rita again and return to his own cancer-ridden body. Set in New York shot on location in Chicago and Highland Park Illinois and Jamaica. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 18 1990 with credits for screenwriter Craig Lucas. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1946ref. 138606Paris: Ecran Francais 1946. Vintage program for the 1946 French film. INSCRIBED by director Claude Autant-Lara in manuscript ink: "Sylvie / seul et unique film a illegible poétique du cinéma français / A Claude Autant / avec toutes mes amitiés! / Claude Autant-Lara / Vichy illegible 1989" "Sylvie / one-and-only film illegible poetics of French film / from Claude Autant / with best wishes / Vichy illegible 1989". Based on the 1942 comic play by Alfred Adam. On the eve of his daughter's 16th birthday a father hires a man to dress as the ghost of the figure in her favorite painting. Two suitors also dress as ghosts to vie for her attention. All this commotion causes the real ghost to appear in order to help Sylvie sort everything out. 12.25 x 9.5 inches. Saddle stapled. Near Fine with cello tape reinforcements to the staples. Ecran Francais unknown
1978ref. 164326N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless oversize color reference photograph from the 1978 French sexploitation film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A vice squad determines to take down a drug and prostitution ring. Director Jacques Scandelari helmed a number of gay pornographic films under the pseudonym Marvin Merkins the most notable being the 1978 feature "New York City Inferno." 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good. Bier 201. N.p. unknown
1940ref. 161700Los Angeles CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Vintage reference keybook photograph of actor director and screenwriter Orson Welles with a dresser on the set of the 1941 film. Linen backed with two sets of punch holes along the top edge. Often considered to be one of the finest American films ever made the story of a reporter investigating the last words of wealthy newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane. Welles' first feature film winner of an Academy Award and nominated for eight others including Best Picture. Shot on location in New York and California. Photograph 8 x 11 inches image 3.5 x 4.5 with large margins. Very Good plus with adhesive residue on the verso and toning. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 6. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1966ref. 132241Germany: Peter-Presse / Atlas Films 1966. Original 1966 German A1 poster for the 1942 US film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 23.25 x 33 inches rolled. Near Fine. Peter-Presse / Atlas Films unknown
1947ref. 134869Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of Rita Hayworth taken for the 1947 film by Columbia Pictures special photographer Robert Coburn. With Coburn's stamp on the verso. Robert Coburn was one of the most influential portrait photographers working in the major Hollywood movie studios from the 1930s to 1960s. His star subjects included Hayworth Joan Crawford Kim Novak Carole Lombard William Holden Glenn Ford and Orson Welles. Coburn's most famous portraits immortalized Hollywood's greatest icons and helped to define this era as the Golden Age of Cinema. In 1940 Coburn began a twenty-year career with Columbia Pictures as the head of the still production department and the studio's chief portrait photographer for many landmark films including "Picnic" "Gilda" and "The Big Heat". 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 163788N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Blindstamps at the corners with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. Based on the 1965 Chester Himes novel. An early blaxpoitation film about two cops investigating a phony local preacher. The film proved a runaway box office success inspiring a slew of buddy cop films both within the genre and beyond. Set and shot on location in Harlem. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Parish and Hill 71. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 146009Burbank CA: Otto Preminger Films 1959. Vintage keybook studio photograph of Lee Remick with Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington at the piano from the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker under the pseudonym Robert Traver which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actor for Jimmy Stewart and twice for Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott and Arthur O'Connell. Set in and shot on location in Michigan. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Otto Preminger Films unknown
1930ref. 149692N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1930 film with actors Constance Bennett and Kenneth MacKenna standing together on the right along with director Paul Stein on location at a racetrack. With an agency stamp on the verso. A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only. Set in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some faint soil at the margins. N.p. unknown
1989ref. 149674N.p.: N.p. 1989. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1989 film one showing director Peter Greenaway and actors Alan Howard the lover and Helen Mirren the wife the other showing Greenaway with actor Richard Bohringer the cook. Each photograph with a printed mimeo label describing it and with identifying numbers 1 and 5 respectively each affixed to the verso. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's sophisticated wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit depictions and notions of sexuality. Set in the UK. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 141322Berkeley: Saul Zaentz 1990. Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe the missionaries that want to convert them and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper dated April 23 1990 with credits for screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Hector Babenco and author Peter Matthiessen. Title page present dated April 23 1990 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriters Carriere and Babenco and author Matthiessen. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Saul Zaentz unknown
1968ref. 171377N.p.: N.p. 1968. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1968 film all showing actress Leigh Taylor-Young. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso the others with annotations in manuscript pencil to same. Dissatisfied with his life and impending marriage a mid-thirties attorney gets high and runs off with a young hippie only to discover he's still unhappy. The title of the film is a reference to "Alice B. Toklas brownies" a slang term for pot brownies. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 147032N.p.: Sandrews 1969. Vintage one sheet Swedish poster for the 1969 film. At some ambiguous time in the near future international superpowers introduce "international peace games" a lethal miniature battle of drafted teens from around the world which is then broadcast as a popular reality television show. Shot on location in Sweden. 27.5 x 39 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus two small holes at middle and lower crease intersections. Sandrews unknown
1985ref. 145179Los Angeles: CBS / Universal City Studios 1985. Draft script for the 1986 pilot episode for the television show "Outlaws." A sheriff and his deputies are transported from the year 1899 into the future by a lightning storm and they establish a new life as private detectives. Set in Houston in 1899 and 1999. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present noted as production No. 86084 dated November 26 1985 with credits for screenwriter/executive producer Nicholas Corea. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. CBS / Universal City Studios unknown
1969ref. 149600Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1969. Vintage reference photograph of director Peter Yates and actors Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow on the set of the 1969 film. Based on Mervyn Jones' 1966 novel following a man and a woman who meet in a singles bar sleep together and spend the subsequent day learning about one another. One of the earliest New Hollywood dramas an examination of hookup culture in the late 1960s. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1962ref. 135647Paris: C.A.P.A.C. / Cocinor 1962. Collection of 6 vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the French release of the 1962 film. Each photo with the stamp of French distributor Cocinor on the verso. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners of each photograph. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. / Cocinor unknown
1965ref. 149858N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix and Claudine Auger from the 1965 film. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Etaix finds happiness his lost love Auger and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. 9 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown
